by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 31, 2018 | Fiction, Oklahoma, Personal, Writing
The bones of the Bloodlines story rattled around in my head for nearly a decade. The main character, Zane Clearwater, was an intruder into my original story. He had a minor role as a love interest to another character. But as I wrote and rewrote the story and worked...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 5, 2018 | Fiction, Writing
This first appeared in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel in October 2018. Are you made of lead or water? Will you sink, or will you flow? Life is rough on the banks of the Kentucky River in Barlow Adams’s debut novella, Appalachian Alchemy, which finds the youngest...
by Lynn Lipinski | Apr 21, 2018 | Fiction, Writing
This review first appeared in The Same on March 28, 2018. My freshman year of high school I crushed on a boy named T. After months of in-class flirting and meaningful looks, T. asked me to go to the movies with him one afternoon after school. My first date! I was...
by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 13, 2017 | Dad, Essays and Features, Personal
I spent the two last years of my dad’s life traveling the globe for a job, a lucky perk with terrible timing. My world expanded as Parkinson’s disease shrunk Dad’s world to a hospital bed and the cracks in the ceiling. I’ve learned this lesson again and...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jul 6, 2017 | Essays and Features, Technology, Unsolicited advice
I have more digital passwords than keys, and without a handy key ring and visual clues like a Hello Kitty key cap, I’m having a hard time keeping them straight. Add to that the cautions of most info security professionals to avoid using the same passwords across...
