by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 29, 2023 | Essays and Features
As the calendar flips to its final pages, I find myself curled up in my snug home office, surrounded by a comforting sea of books. This little room, which also moonlights as a bedroom, is where I’ve spent many hours, lost in the world of words and ideas. In my...
by Lynn Lipinski | Nov 30, 2023 | Essays and Features, Oklahoma
The chrome soda fountain and the hostess stand fabricated from a turquoise 1957 Chevy made Tulsa’s Metro Diner a space out of time when it opened in 1984. The 1950s-style diner sat on historic Route 66, across from the University of Tulsa and within smelling distance...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 31, 2023 | Essays and Features
In this feature article for Trojan Family Magazine, I had the opportunity to delve into the lives of USC’s Fulbright Scholars, an experience that was as enlightening as it was inspiring. The feature, titled “Fabulous Fulbrights,” showcases the...
by Lynn Lipinski | Aug 22, 2021 | Essays and Features, Personal, Stories We Love, Writing
Which of these books did you sneak from the library or your parents’ bookshelf when you were way too young for it? If you were an avid and early reader like me, you powered through the kids and young adult book sections at the library fast and wandered over to...
by Lynn Lipinski | Feb 4, 2021 | Essays and Features, Personal
“Can you be Bananas the Monkey tomorrow?” I was seventeen years old, punching my time card as a waitress at Casa Bonita, a massive Disneylandish restaurant sitting behind a bright pink storefront in a strip mall near a wig store and a check cashing place....
by Lynn Lipinski | Sep 22, 2020 | Essays and Features, Personal
Depending on the light and my mood, the potted cacti and succulents on my front porch resemble either the strange skyline of a science fiction city or the motley cast of characters in Star Wars’ Chalmun’s Cantina. A tangle of golden snake cactus, the opuntia’s...
