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Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

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Neurologist. Writer. Editor.
Author, THE COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO DEMENTIA.
Contributor, PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION, THIS SIDE OF DOCTORING.
2025 #KidLitChuckleChallenge champion, 2025 #SpringFlingKidlit contest winner, 2024 #FallWritingFrenzy winner.

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Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

It’s Soup Season!👩🏻‍🍳🥣❤️‍🔥

First up, Copycat Panera Broccoli Cheddar Soup from The Girl on Bloor: thegirlonbloor.com/panera-brocc...

I love that this recipe is made with milk (as many similar recipes use cream).

Before adding cheese, I blitzed it with my immersion blender as I prefer a blended soup.

Golden blended soup (with flecks of orange and green) in a purple bowl. The soup is topped with two bright green broccoli florets and a lightly-toasted slice of bread.

September 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

I'm Trick-or-Treating @ #seasonsofkidlit.com!

Thanks to @authorhmacht.bsky.social, @literallylynne.bsky.social, and all the generous guests and prize donors!

September 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

We remember.

"We are all New Yorkers" is a poem I wrote in the days after September 11, 2001:

September 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Thanks for the magnificent poetry prompt ("Tell me about the place you would have them scatter your ashes"), @malformed-poetry.bsky.social!

#poetry #prompt #MPprompt
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetrySky #WritingSky

Spread my Ashes in Pompeii
by Anne Lipton

Spread my ashes in Pompeii
and I shall live another day,
spending all eternity
breaking chains to set slaves free,
baking in the bakery,
and reading in the library.

I’ll toast and feast in courtyards square,
dining in the open air.
I’ll amble every stony street
upon my leather-sandalled feet.
Good friends and Romans, I will greet,
whenever we should chance to meet.

I’ll paint the walls and tiles, too,
beneath broad skies of brilliant blue.
My playwriting I’ll have to tweak,
learning Latin—even Greek—
so I can read and write and speak,
a watchful eye on every peak.

Though if Hell breaches hallowed ground,
I’ll lead Pompeiians somewhere sound.
So never fear the volcano,
though it may huff and it may blow.
We’ll be gone should lava flow
and long before the ashes snow.

August 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Sunday on Iona Jetty.🩵☀️🌊

#Canadian #Summer #Sunday #Canada

Yellow chalk sketch of sun on rocks ahead of blue water, mountains, and sky with a variety of white clouds.

August 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

#poem inspired by @thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #stitch

#poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky #PoetryForKids #PoetryForChildren #writing #WritingCommunity #WritingSky #WritingForChildren #kidlit

Poem printed on photograph of a sketch.

Text of poem:
Zero Winks

I have stitches in my side
and stuffing in my belly.
I can’t get a wink of sleep.
My knees are made of jelly.

I can thrive on zero sleep.
I never stop to eat.
But I need a little push
to bring me to my feet.

I see everything you do
and nothing much at all
with unblinking button eyes—
because I am a doll.
–Anne Lipton

Background: Sketch of woman wearing a turban with ostrich plumes, diamond necklace, and a long sleeved empire-waist gown standing before a chaise longue and lamp on end table.

Image credit: Photograph by Anne Lipton of "Ball Dress," printed in La Belle Assemblée, February 1822, and featured in the @museumofvan.bsky.social "Dressed for History" exhibition.

August 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Happy Bastille Day! Bonne fête nationale!💙🇫🇷❤️

Salade Niçoise à la David Gritzen @seriouseats.bsky.social
www.seriouseats.com/nicoise-sala...

Tarte Tatin à la Dave Lieberman/Food Network
www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/dave...

#BastilleDay #FêteNationale #CookingSky #BakingSky #France #VivelaFrance!

Spring mix greens topped with anchovies, shredded tuna, potatoes, green beans, green olives, and capers with a split hard-boiled egg, on a plate bordered by delicate violet flowers, set on a placemat of a beach scene with blue sky, blue water, and a sandy beach.

Carmelized apple slices topping a tart crust on a green-rimmed plate atop a wooden table.

July 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Happy Book Birthday, and Happy World Bee Day, @booksbycindy.bsky.social and Vikki Zhang! 🐝📔🎂🎊

#WorldBeeDay #WorldBeeDay2025
#kidlit #BookBirthday #BookSky

Yellow Happy Book Birthday card ft. cover of IF A BUMBLEBEE LANDS ON YOUR TOE (illustration of bumblebee fairy on field of painted flowers) and "a Thank you to everyone who helped make this book possible" from Yeehoo Press. Book author: Cynthia Mackey, Illustrator/art credit: Vikki Zhang

May 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

#Poem #Poetry #PoetrySky

Heave-ho!
by Anne Lipton

Snuck is a past tense of sneak.
Crept is the past tense of creep.
Shone is a past tense of shine.
Leapt is a past tense of leap.

Dove is a past tense of dive.
Hove is a past tense of heave.
Wept is the past tense of weep.
Love is a past tense of leave.

May 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

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May 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Dashing into the #Monday #StuckBumblebee #PoetryChallenge, hosted by @booksbycindy.bsky.social and @jpuglow.bsky.social, with a #poem for all the #writers and #editors in the sky! 📝

www.booksbycindy.com/poemsbycynthia

#prompt #dash #poetry #PoetrySky #WritingSky #WritingCommunity

Screenshot of Poetry Text:

’Twas the Right Punctuation
(h/t Clement Clarke Moore)
by Anne Lipton

More rapid than raptors the chapters they came,
and I read them, and proofed them, with marks to exclaim!
How? Question! now, Hy-phen! now [Brackets] and Em dash—
On, Comma, on, Colon: on, {Braces} and En dash (–)!
But put down your pencil, grammatical cop!
My book’s in its printing, “The End” is— Full stop.

March 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

In a #poem about #birds, of course I had to include an Easter Egg! Can you spot the reference to a classic children's #PictureBook?

Happy Book Birthdays, #StuckBumblebee #PoetryChallenge co-hosts @booksbycindy.bsky.social and @jpuglow.bsky.social !!📖🎂

#poetry #prompt #chickadee #PoetrySky #kidlit

Text of Poem: Alpha Bird
by Anne Lipton

A, Beak, Chickadee,
Eagle, Falcon, Garganey,
Hatch! Eye! Jay! Kest-(reL),
M, N, Make a Nest (well),
O! Owl and Parakeet,
Quail, Robin, Spring, Tweet!
Upupa, V-formation, Wing!
X—make way for duck crossing!
Bird-Y wins it in the clinch.
Z is for a Zebra finch.

Background: Photo of black crow perched on a piece of driftwood on a pale sandy beach with gentle waves of blue water. Photo Credit: Anne Lipton

March 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Happy World Poetry Day!📝

Hope you enjoy my poem featuring loads of literary #EasterEggs, including one for STUCK! by @jpuglow.bsky.social., co-host with @booksbycindy.bsky.social, of the #StuckBumblebee #PoetryChallenge #prompt #mire #poetry #PoetrySky #book #books #BookBirthdayBash#WorldPoetryDay

Text of poem:

In a World
by Anne Lipton

Of all the tales that I admire
set on Earth, in space or shire,
in the reign of ice and fire,
in the mist or in the mire,
on a ship or cinder spire,
on a ledge or tightrope wire,
good story is the unifier.

Background: Photo of leather-bound books on shelves by Anne Lipton.

March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Best of Both Worlds

Sunset on the mountain snow
casts a rosy alpenglow.

Sunset past the surfer’s splash
rides out with an emerald flash.

#StuckBumblebee #PoetryChallenge #IllustrationChallenge #prompt #sunset #poem #poetry #FirstDayofSpring #SpringEquinox #VernalEquinox #BookBirthdayBash

Watercolour-style digital illustration of pink clouds and blue sky over pink-tinged snow peaks of a purple mountain range. Digital art from photo, both by Anne Lipton

Digital painting illustration of surfers on golden sandy beach with blue ocean waves reflecting golden sunset and green flash at horizon. Digital art from photo, both by Anne Lipton

March 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

The Queen of Antifreeze

In the Palace of Nobreeze,
lived the Queen of Antifreeze . . . 1/3

#StuckBumblebee #PoetryChallenge #IllustrationChallenge #prompt #freeze #poetry #poem #BookBirthdayBash

Digital art illustration of a castle-shaped mountain with yellowed pines and grasses in foreground. Digital art and photo of Castle Mountain, Alberta, Canada by Anne Lipton.

March 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Lamb Sausages, Creamy Colcannon Mash, and Avoca Brown Bread.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!!💚🇮🇪☘️

#StPatricksDay #HappyStPatricksDay #Ireland #Irish #IrishSky #CookSky
#BakeSky #FoodSky

Two sausages with a slice of bread and mashed potatoes with greens, on a plate atop a placemat with a colorful painting of seaside hills

March 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Vancouver!!!💚🇮🇪☘️

Nigella’s Chocolate Guinness Cake @nigella.bsky.social

#StPatricksDay #HappyStPatricksDay
#Ireland #Irish #Guinness #Vancouver

Round deep chocolate cake with foamy frosting held up on a plate with blue sky, mountains, high-rises, and harbour as backdrop.

March 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

St. Patrick's Day Jumble

Colcannon potatoes are Irish cuisine
that make for the perfect St. Patrick’s Day treat.
Mash your potatoes. Look! Hills of auld!
Add knobs of butter for sunshine and gold.
Jumble in cabbage and onions for green.
Sprinkle with sea salt—then dive in and eat!

#StuckBumblebee

Hill of purple heather and green brush overlooking blue ocean with peninsulas and islands under blue sky. Digital art from original photo of Ring of Kerry, Ireland, by Anne Lipton.

March 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Bumblebee, bumblebee,
buzz me a poem.
Trumpet an anthem—
“Hooray, honeycomb!”

Bumblebee, bumblebee,
swarm by and sing.
Close on a high note—
and not with a sting!

#StuckBumblebee #PoetryChallenge #IllustrationChallenge upside down treble clef→ #bumblebee #prompt #poetry #poem #BookBirthdayBash

Illustration of a singing bumblebee drawn from an upside down treble clef on a musical staff. Photograph of ink drawing by Anne Lipton.

March 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

The unsuspecting Caesar,
at Pompey’s Roman arch,
was prodded to his knees there.
Beware the Ides of March!

#StuckBumblebee #BookBirthdayBash #PoetryChallenge #IllustrationChallenge #unsuspecting #prompt #poem #poetry #quatrain

A cobbled street, with sidewalks lined by columns and houses, runs through two stone Roman arches with a view to a mountain range. Photo Credit: Anne Lipton, Pompeii, Italy.

March 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM

Anne Lipton, MD, PhD

@annelipton.bsky.social

Blood Moon before Pie Day

The Moon and Earth in orbital quadrille,
a lunar dance, galactic blood-red spill,
deep cherry filling seeping out to stain
a Pie Day crust: My 2πr quatrain.

#StuckBumblebee #BookBirthdayBash#PoetryChallenge #IllustrationChallenge #dance #prompt #poem #poetry #quatrain