When I arrived in America’s Blue Ridge Mountains region near Charlottesville in Virginia – I knew no one! Having lived abroad in the United Kingdom’s London for 16 years – my friends in America are now geographically – everywhere in the world. I do have my wonderful mother and step-father in the area, and my […]
A big move took place in the summer of 2020 for me – when I located, with my son, to America’s Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville in Virginia. After my 16 years living abroad in London in the United Kingdom, it has been a process of re-patriating and becoming settled in my new home area. […]
This month I have undertaken something most amazing! I’m pleased to let the world know here on my personal blog that – after about 16 years of living here in the UK – I am becoming a British citizen! This journey is one of length, commitment and marks a big milestone in my lifetime. I’m […]
About four years ago an armed man went into the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in the United States and killed 49 people, wounding 53 others. It was an attack toward the LGBT+ community that moved me to tears, and action. I blogged about some of my feelings about the event here at the time, […]
I’m pleased to be able to announce – that my personal website here of lisadevaney.com has had a fantastic makeover! My creative online hub here has not had a new look in about six years – so it’s long overdue. I want to say a huge thanks to some folks that have helped make this […]
Do you love your door? Think about how useful it is to you every day – you enter in and out of your door, keep your door shut and locked when you are out, protecting all your stuff, and while you are inside it stays closed and keeps the cold out and the people inside […]
I’ve been up to something very new in late 2017 – and I’m pleased to tell you more about my adventure here on my blog. As I’ve mentioned previously, I have been an on-off painter since I was a child, creating bright, cheery, textured paintings of oil, acrylic and watercolour, as well as pen and […]
When can I remember two small words being as powerful as the words me too proved this week? Me too. Lighting up the internet, in a matter of hours, I watched amazed as hashtag me too cascaded and stretched out around the world. Me too – is a trigger, for me, and for most of […]
It was a warm night in New York City, and a friend was going to DJ at a Manhattan night club, so, along with my best friend – my BFF as I like to call her – we rallied some folks to join us to come out and show some support and have a good […]
Words are not boring. Words are actually still popular, still loved and still highly entertaining as I discovered this past Friday night, October 13th 2017. I joined a cast of 40+ writers and performers to share words, all original writings, in the new Redgates Theatre’s Gateways showcase evening, on Fish Island in Hackney Wick. More […]
For my entire life, as long as I can remember, I’ve loved art — in all forms. I’ve also been a participant in creating artistic works — this includes performances, poetry, a little bit of singing, books, drawing and painting. This year in 2017, I’ve picked up my paint brushes and oil paints again, after […]
Today I bought a Rainbow flag. I am planning to hang this flag off of my balcony. Everyday hundreds of people pass by my building here in London, UK, so I expect a lot of people will see this flag. I don’t know what their views are on things, and I often shy away from […]
FYI — I’ve also posted my review for the book ‘Saving Bletchley Park’ here and here. And you can find my reviews of this book on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Goodreads. Thank you to publishers Unbound for providing me this book, in exchange for an honest review. -Lisa So often these days, news headlines are pock-marked […]
Back in the day, as I like to say lately, I was running around New York City as a young, single woman, shouting out words at open-mic evenings and entertaining, or disgusting, audiences with my SLAM-poetry. Then, oh this was around about the millennium years between the late nineties and into the early noughties, I […]
If you walk around my neighbourhood in London’s East End, here in Hackney, you may, at first, be put off by our terrible problem with dog poo littering the sidewalks, or focus on some the the run down buildings that could do with bit of a paint job. To me though, from the moment I […]
If you follow the hashtag #clifi on Twitter, for this rising literary genre of cli-fi (climate change fiction) you’ll find a growing number of fans, and among those who tweet about the topic, is the father of cli-fi himself – Dan Bloom, based in Taiwan. Bloom is often credited with coining the term cli-fi around […]
What have I learned from living in the UK? Inspired by the Americans in London Facebook Group, I discovered that there are many other Americans living in the UK, who, like me, are bumping up against various cultural confusions. Also, prompted by my friends and family asking me to share more information about living in […]
The year of 2015 has included quite a few highs, and lows, for me, and my book In Ark: A Promise of Survival including having to emotionally weather some of my first difficult book reviews. I’m over it, but it is certainly an experience to discover that while there are many who love my book, […]
I would like to tell you today for Blog Action Day 2015‘s theme of #RaiseYourVoice that I am courageous, brave and strong in my ability to share my views online and off. But I am not. I want to shout out to the world about causes I support and issues I feel strongly about, but […]
When I first read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck for English class in high school, I remember being bored by a long passage about a turtle crossing the road. It was an incredible book, but I just remember feeling irritated and wanting to jump to the plot, get to the action and see […]
As a self-taught artist, a writer, and a publicist – I welcome you to my creative online hub, where you’ll get to see some of my works, and find out more about me.