Lisa Mednick Powell

My book, Finding the Azimuth, or F the A for short, will be available soon on Bandcamp! So you don't have to use Amazon! I will donate $2 for every book sold to Cholla Needles!

F the A is a…

BECAUSE NO ONE IS READING MY BLOG.

AND...

I FUCKING HATE GRAMMARLY AND THEIR FUCKING ADS.

I mean, maybe it doesn't warrant an exclamation point, but we have been working on it for a couple of years, and it is here now. Seven songs. It was nearly only six songs but I convinced Kip to put…

The Painted Ladies are fluttering through. All blowing the same direction, crossing the highway oblivious to the military transports which barrel into them and crush them on the fly. I don't have the fuzzy soft spot for veterans and active…

Yesterday evening I played three of my songs and two covers for a larger audience than I have played my music to in quite some time. I know that sentence structure sucks, but I get lazy when I am filled…

Fossils have come to light. Fossils of a fossil in fact. Fossils of a fossil created by a ghost. In 1993 some friends and I made an album called Artifacts of Love. None of us are the same people we…

Cholla Needles Literary Library has posted my Desert Story, Pastures of Plenty, on their website. You can read it here.

Here's the link. The article, titled, "Forget Coachella, there's a vibrant more affordable music scene around Joshua Tree. The article, with its misused comma in the header, is in The Post. Read it and then read the comments. Mine is…

I would like to have the Song Patrol up and running. A friend asked in an email today, "What's your plan?" That is just it. I don't have any kind of plan. I only have a vision. I don't do…

Kip and I are in McAllen, Texas. We are here visiting his parents. We are going to Nuevo Progreso, Mexico tomorrow. I feel so strange blithely crossing the checkpoint. We have done it so many times in the past but…

Federal workers are prohibited from going on strike. But they can huelga, can't they? Just wondering...When I worked at the college in Northern new Mexico we were prohibited from striking. But Ignacio Coronado said, "We can just say it's a…