Lisa Romero
- Location
- Salfordville, Pennsylvania, USA
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
- Welcome to the AMEROCENTRIC ECCENTRIC - challenging the way we look at things from our American perspective, while cherishing and celebrating our unique culture.
I'm an average American, on-again-off-again journalist of 20 years and astute student of humanity with too many questions, never enough answers and an unwavering, if not at times pitiable faith that people (even the most twisted specimens) are inherently good.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “You are always a
(visual) tonic for the
soul.
To those who
don't get it: Get
lost.…”
November 06, 2009 08:48PM - “I want to assure anyone
reading this observation about
two
things:
1) There
are ma…”
October 01, 2009 03:06PM - “What's the fun in THAT?
So I guess someone's joke
yesterday
that Keith
Olbermann…”
September 10, 2009 06:58PM - “BRAVO. I was one of
those who crashed his site
last night by
refusing to STOP
TRY…”
September 10, 2009 06:36PM - “I was thinking of you
tonight.... Indeed, I use your
story a
lot when speaking
wi…”
September 09, 2009 09:57PM
Lisa Romero's Links
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, you know, back in the early ‘70s (born in the far-out ‘60s), I wore dresses. And roughly cut-off, hand-me-down jeans as shorts. And pixie-cut hair – and no shirts.
I looked like a little boy. The way my sister and I ran around the… Read full post »
A FEW MONTHS BACK, WHEN ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS, DAVE - aka "The Squealer" to those of us who knew him as the king of snarky columns at our college newspaper (before the word "snarky" became vogue, and the vogue became law) - well, as I say, when Squealer sent… Read full post »
I'VE OVERCOME AN ABSOLUTE TERROR OF HEIGHTS since I was a kid by putting myself in situations that force me to deal with it. So one of my greatest successes in curing me of this phobia (well, as much as anyone can actually be said to be "cured") was leaning into the windows at the… Read full post »
I love Thanksgiving. It's my favorite part of the holiday season, before everyone's a stressed-out mess. Family is happy to be together, there's non-stop chatter, and no forced laughter like you hear by Christmastime. Relaxed, warm, and aromatic with every wonderful spice that has blessed mankind and… Read full post »
One morning about a week ago, bleary-eyed and sipping on coffee while ritually scanning OS to jumpstart my brain, I conceived an idea to compile and post a list of stories on a regular basis. Stories about interesting people, places, events, things, observations, rantings and more that somehow missed… Read full post »

Have you heard the latest? Probably not. That's the way it is with complicated legislation or governmental decrees that may or may not hurt your pocketbook, especially when you're intentionally kept out of the loop.
Thank heavens, some people on Capitol Hill aren't OK with that - e… Read full post »

When I started my career more than 20 years ago, nearly all my friends were reporters.
We worked at small papers, where you got your start - writing obits, then on a smaller beat or assisting other reporters with theirs, and moving up the ladder. Some transferred to bigger metro… Read full post »
Under 10,000. Bad as things have been lately, I honestly didn't think the day would come when I'd see the Dow plummeting like this, when people like Mad Money's Jim Cramer would be urging Americans who need money within the next 5 years to pull funds from the market ASAP. (Click… Read full post »
I almost didn't tune into NBC last night to see who won America's Got Talent on its finale show.
It was so damn obvious the winner was going to be Nuttin' But Strings, the violin-playing Escobar brothers from Queens, NYC, there seemed little point in wasting an hour watching Jerry Springer… Read full post »

I can't help but notice the Next Big Story on America's financial meltdown isn't getting much press this morning on the mainstream media, so let me break it to you here:
The FDIC - the iron-clad $100,000-per-person-per-bank insurer that has "never failed" to deliver and has been con… Read full post »
Tuesday night, while relishing the freshness of Cloris Leachman's comic performance on "Dancing with the Stars" - a show that's too likable and fun not to enjoy - I suddenly found myself squirming in my seat.
When judge Carrie Ann Inaba revealed her score for the unpredictable Oscar-winning actr… Read full post »
Lisa Romero's Favorites
Updates
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Whoa There, Trigger!
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My Wife's Own Grape Jelly Meatball Recipe
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Bozo interfaces with Soupy Sales on old time TV
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Best books of the 2000s
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My last-minute, shot in the rain, blurry photos of my work
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Creationism --> Evolution --> Imagination
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Act as If Nothing Ever Happened
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To-Do List: The Next Five Days
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