Lisa started life in California with a dysfunctional mother, a brilliant but damaged father and an older half-brother, Don. She has only fleeting memories of the succession of apartments and houses they inhabited. When she was six, her mother gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and two years later to another girl. Chaos reigned.
As a young woman, she spent two years and two months traveling the world, including an overland journey through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and into India where, merciful heavens, she learned to meditate. En route home, she meandered through Nepal, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and finally into New Zealand, where she took a job crewing on a homemade “yacht” to the Fiji Islands. All told, she spent a total of $6,000.
Shortly after her return to the states, she accepted a teaching job in Madison Wisconsin’s Public Schools. A year later she met and married Jim Glueck, the love of her life. They raised two sons, Brian and Kevin, both of whom still live in Madison.
Lisa studied Buddhism at U.W. Madison and attended Naropa Institute. A student of Thich Nhat Hanh for twenty-five years, she regularly offers talks at Madison’s “Snowflower Sangha” (snowflowersangha.org.) some of which you’ll find on her blog, “Thoughts on Dharma.”
After teaching in Madison for thirty years, she retired to study the craft of writing fiction and is currently seeking representation for her first novel, The Great Untangling.
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