This is Lisa Latham's front page. In it, she uses self-deprecating humor in a sly attempt to impress you.

Lisa uses her fancy boarding school/Harvard education to write about breast pumps, sore nipples, getting bitten by her children and other painful skin conditions associated with domestic life. Her favorite piece available here is probably "Breastpumping at 70 MPH" which ran in Salon.com (see link on the Online Clips page), but it will soon be joined by a piece for Men's Health entitled "The Sexiest Man I Know," when they run the special edition they've pegged it to or they run out of glitzy photos of six-pack abs, whichever comes first. Same goes for "The W-Word," languishing at Babytalk, "The Four Year Couch" written for the New York Times, and a bunch of pieces assigned by the Los Angeles Times Home section.

Until these pieces hit newsstands, please enjoy the links to her online work or drop her a line to get a fax or .pdf of her many restaurant reviews for travel magazines (in particular, her cover article/feature story on "The Education of an LA Chowhound," her collection of best and worst moments from the Academy Awards, "The Knitting Hormone" or any number of pieces about spicy food, diapers, domestic bliss, etiquette and other scarily feminine topics seen from a decidedly un-frilly point of view.

Lisa has published dozens of articles only available in print, which she keeps promising to excerpt online and then scan as a .pdf for easier download, much to the dismay of her webmaster, the inimitable Puttyhead. For now, you can find a joke or two from a few of them on the "Samples" page. The articles which have just not yet run can be excerpted briefly if requested by email, but cannot be made available as .pdf's for fear of irritating their editors — any further.

—Lis