Lisa Knopp
@raveler904.bsky.social
Author (8 books of creative nonfiction), mother, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Christian mystic, reiki practitioner, volunteer mentor (Lincoln Literacy; Big Brothers/Big Sisters), yogi, fan of libraries and librarians.
Yesterday at the Nebraska Book Festival with my dear friends, Janice Miller and Bob Ross. Bob won the "poetry honor" award for his new collection, "Those We Can No Longer See," and was hilarious, as usual, at a roundtable discussion. Bravo, Bob! #NebraskaBookFestival #NebraskaPoetry
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Yesterday at the Nebraska Book Festival with my dear friends, Janice Miller and Bob Ross. Bob won the "poetry honor" award for his new collection, "Those We Can No Longer See," and was hilarious, as usual, at a roundtable discussion. Bravo, Bob! #NebraskaBookFestival #NebraskaPoetry
On my way to the splendid No Kings rally with my hands free, flag holding sign, complete with a Dan Osborn sticker. #NoKings #LincolnNebraska #DanOsborn
October 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
On my way to the splendid No Kings rally with my hands free, flag holding sign, complete with a Dan Osborn sticker. #NoKings #LincolnNebraska #DanOsborn
September 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
My "personal best haiku with related commentary:
dark waiting rain clouds
the mourning dove’s pulsing call
kneads them like bread dough
#haiku #mourningdove #breaddough #poetry
underthebasho.com/the-journal/...
dark waiting rain clouds
the mourning dove’s pulsing call
kneads them like bread dough
#haiku #mourningdove #breaddough #poetry
underthebasho.com/the-journal/...
Under the Basho - Lisa Knopp
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September 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
My "personal best haiku with related commentary:
dark waiting rain clouds
the mourning dove’s pulsing call
kneads them like bread dough
#haiku #mourningdove #breaddough #poetry
underthebasho.com/the-journal/...
dark waiting rain clouds
the mourning dove’s pulsing call
kneads them like bread dough
#haiku #mourningdove #breaddough #poetry
underthebasho.com/the-journal/...
I've been a "big sister" for 13 yrs. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lincoln has been a meaningful activity for both my littles & me (that's my current one & me in the pic). Please remember this great organization on Give to Lincoln Day! #GiveToLincolnDay2025 #BigBrothersBigSisters #mentoring #LincolnNE
May 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I've been a "big sister" for 13 yrs. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lincoln has been a meaningful activity for both my littles & me (that's my current one & me in the pic). Please remember this great organization on Give to Lincoln Day! #GiveToLincolnDay2025 #BigBrothersBigSisters #mentoring #LincolnNE
I'm so pleased that the librarians at Bennett Martin included me on this poster of Nebraska women. What a group it is! Willa Cather, Susan La Flesche PIcotte (the 1st Native American medical doctor), mayors, senators, actors, artists, scientists, aviators, reformers, and more! #NebraskaWomen
April 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I'm so pleased that the librarians at Bennett Martin included me on this poster of Nebraska women. What a group it is! Willa Cather, Susan La Flesche PIcotte (the 1st Native American medical doctor), mayors, senators, actors, artists, scientists, aviators, reformers, and more! #NebraskaWomen
Sunday, March 9th, I'm the guest speaker at the "Exploring Justice Forum" at New Visions United Methodist Church in Lincoln. And, you're invited! #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #Nebraska'sDeathRow #God'sgrace #Redemption #Forgiven
March 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sunday, March 9th, I'm the guest speaker at the "Exploring Justice Forum" at New Visions United Methodist Church in Lincoln. And, you're invited! #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #Nebraska'sDeathRow #God'sgrace #Redemption #Forgiven
I'm going Jamaica for my daughter's wedding and need a really engaging work of creative nonfiction to read on the plane and the beach. Suggestions? #ReadingSuggestions #CreativeNonfiction #WhatToRead #Bookshelf
February 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm going Jamaica for my daughter's wedding and need a really engaging work of creative nonfiction to read on the plane and the beach. Suggestions? #ReadingSuggestions #CreativeNonfiction #WhatToRead #Bookshelf
Go first to the author. I sell my books at about 30% less than Amazon or the publisher. Getting readers is more important than getting money! #BuyDirectlyFromTheAuthor #IndieBookSellers #SayNoToAmazon #WhereToBuyBooks
Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.
February 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Go first to the author. I sell my books at about 30% less than Amazon or the publisher. Getting readers is more important than getting money! #BuyDirectlyFromTheAuthor #IndieBookSellers #SayNoToAmazon #WhereToBuyBooks
Margaret Atwood's wonderful poem has as much to say about cats as it does this "month of despair,/with a skewered heart in the centre." #February #MargaretAtwood #cats #catpoem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47787/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47787/...
February
In the pewter mornings, the cat, a black fur sausage with yellow Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It’s his way of telling whether or not I’m dead. He settles on my ches...
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February 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Margaret Atwood's wonderful poem has as much to say about cats as it does this "month of despair,/with a skewered heart in the centre." #February #MargaretAtwood #cats #catpoem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47787/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47787/...
No news; no stress.
January 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
No news; no stress.
Reposted by Lisa Knopp
Hearings are set on a pair of measures to dismantle Nebraska’s split electoral allocation system. Details:
Winner-take-all hearings are set. Let's mobilize. - Civic Nebraska
The Government Committee of the Nebraska Legislature will hear testimony on Jan. 30. Be there.
civicnebraska.org
January 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Hearings are set on a pair of measures to dismantle Nebraska’s split electoral allocation system. Details:
Reposted by Lisa Knopp
If you’d like to help the victims of the #LAfires, this is the best place to make a donation. CCF ensures that resources reach those most in need, leveraging partnerships with community-based organizations and government agencies to prioritize underserved communities
www.calfund.org/funds/wildfi...
www.calfund.org/funds/wildfi...
www.calfund.org
January 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
If you’d like to help the victims of the #LAfires, this is the best place to make a donation. CCF ensures that resources reach those most in need, leveraging partnerships with community-based organizations and government agencies to prioritize underserved communities
www.calfund.org/funds/wildfi...
www.calfund.org/funds/wildfi...
I just dashed off a thank you note to Biden. I could easily have gone on for 10 pages. His accomplishments were great! #GratitudeForBiden #joebiden #Biden'sAccomplishments #SavingAmerica #ThankYouJoeBiden
January 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I just dashed off a thank you note to Biden. I could easily have gone on for 10 pages. His accomplishments were great! #GratitudeForBiden #joebiden #Biden'sAccomplishments #SavingAmerica #ThankYouJoeBiden
Excellent reporting from NPR about how deportations will affect Nebraska's ag economy -- even if the governor and none of the meat-packing big wigs would talk to them.
www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n... #NebraskaAgriculture #NebraskaWorkerShortage #TrumpDeportationsNebraska
www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n... #NebraskaAgriculture #NebraskaWorkerShortage #TrumpDeportationsNebraska
Trump's promise of mass deportations has Nebraska worried amid labor shortage
Nebraska, one of the top beef producers, has one of the worst labor shortages in the nation. The incoming Trump administration has vowed to carry out mass deportations: how will Nebraska be affected?
www.npr.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Excellent reporting from NPR about how deportations will affect Nebraska's ag economy -- even if the governor and none of the meat-packing big wigs would talk to them.
www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n... #NebraskaAgriculture #NebraskaWorkerShortage #TrumpDeportationsNebraska
www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n... #NebraskaAgriculture #NebraskaWorkerShortage #TrumpDeportationsNebraska
Yesterday at my branch library, I heard a woman talking on her cell phone to someone who was directing her how to find a book, "The Secret." It wasn't going well. Or maybe it was. "I may have to start reading books," I heard her say. #Librarylove #PublicLibraries #BookLovers #EiseleyBranchLibrary
January 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yesterday at my branch library, I heard a woman talking on her cell phone to someone who was directing her how to find a book, "The Secret." It wasn't going well. Or maybe it was. "I may have to start reading books," I heard her say. #Librarylove #PublicLibraries #BookLovers #EiseleyBranchLibrary
Following shenanigans re committee assignments In Nebraska's "nonpartisan" statehouse, I wrote a gratitude note to my senator. #DanielleConrad #ToxicPartisanship #NebraskaPolitics #Gratitude
January 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Following shenanigans re committee assignments In Nebraska's "nonpartisan" statehouse, I wrote a gratitude note to my senator. #DanielleConrad #ToxicPartisanship #NebraskaPolitics #Gratitude
Gosh, I love this story -- groups of Latino immigrants putting out fires in the homes of folks they don't even know. #LatinoImmigrantFirefighters #Benevolence #LAFires #Who'sYourNeighbor
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
Groups of Latino immigrants help to put out wildfires in Los Angeles area
Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Gosh, I love this story -- groups of Latino immigrants putting out fires in the homes of folks they don't even know. #LatinoImmigrantFirefighters #Benevolence #LAFires #Who'sYourNeighbor
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
What if we all prayed at the same moment -- many, many millions and millions of people -- to stop the winds so the firefighters could do their work? #Powerofprayer #LAFires #Prayeristheanswwer
January 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What if we all prayed at the same moment -- many, many millions and millions of people -- to stop the winds so the firefighters could do their work? #Powerofprayer #LAFires #Prayeristheanswwer
I left the musky stench of X for clear blue skies. But I'm not finding it very interesting here. Yawn. Any advice on how to make this a more happening experience? Thanks! #BlueSkyIsBoring #SeekingSocialMediaAdvice #XorBlueSky
January 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I left the musky stench of X for clear blue skies. But I'm not finding it very interesting here. Yawn. Any advice on how to make this a more happening experience? Thanks! #BlueSkyIsBoring #SeekingSocialMediaAdvice #XorBlueSky
I'm pleased that the University of Missouri Press has reissued my 2016 book, Bread, this time as a more affordable paperback. Check out the current catalogue for more information -- or buy the hardback from me at half the price that Amazon is asking. #disorderedeating #eatingdisorders #memoir #aging
January 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I'm pleased that the University of Missouri Press has reissued my 2016 book, Bread, this time as a more affordable paperback. Check out the current catalogue for more information -- or buy the hardback from me at half the price that Amazon is asking. #disorderedeating #eatingdisorders #memoir #aging
The sharply declining crime rate (murders, car thefts, etc.) is such great news! #Crimerate #Goodnews #Truthaboutcrime
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
U.S. sees sharp decline in murders and other crimes in 2024
The number of murders in the U.S. is declining at a rapid pace. While crime was a central focus of the election, with President-elect Trump alleging it was out of control in many cities, other crimes ...
www.pbs.org
January 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The sharply declining crime rate (murders, car thefts, etc.) is such great news! #Crimerate #Goodnews #Truthaboutcrime
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
When you search online, add "-a-i" to the end of your query so that your search is performed without the use of Artificial Intelligence and the massive amounts of electricity and fossil fuels it consumes. #ArtificialIntelligence #CancellingAI #AI-freeSearches
December 30, 2024 at 11:23 PM
When you search online, add "-a-i" to the end of your query so that your search is performed without the use of Artificial Intelligence and the massive amounts of electricity and fossil fuels it consumes. #ArtificialIntelligence #CancellingAI #AI-freeSearches
An enlightening look at the effects of mental health concept creep. Normal worry or an anxiety disorder? Normal sadness or depression? A tough time or trauma? #Depression #Trauma #Anxiety #ConceptCreep
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Trauma or a tough time? How our mental health labels are changing over time - ABC listen
We've come a long way in how we talk about mental health.
But while diagnoses like depression and anxiety can empower people to seek help and support — they also influence how we see ourselves and ho...
www.abc.net.au
December 30, 2024 at 1:05 PM
An enlightening look at the effects of mental health concept creep. Normal worry or an anxiety disorder? Normal sadness or depression? A tough time or trauma? #Depression #Trauma #Anxiety #ConceptCreep
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...