Lisa K. Brown

Lisa Brown is a freelance writer and bemused 50-year-old. What can one say about a young girl who grew up amongst the pine trees and squirrels of a small East Texas town? A young girl who wrote so much poetry that her exasperated mother finally said (with a Jewish accent, even though the family was incredibly Caucasian and Methodist), "Enough with the rhyming already! There’s too much paper in the house! Spend some time outdoors, go play with a squirrel!" The only thing that has stopped Lisa from being her generation's Taylor Swift is the fact that the only thing she can play is a clarinet, and it’s nearly impossible to write a song and sing along to it on a wind instrument.