On Untrodden WaysI have found that when I sink into the buried tremors of myself, the suffering and the beauty arise as twins, and they are equally as excruciating, equally as sacred.
Lise Liddell
Untrodden Ways
Writing
Seven true stories, from a tequila road trip in 1984 to the small painting her father left her.
Long prose
Poetry RingsWhen I was a child my father, Frank, relished reciting poetry…HurricaneIn August of 2008, Anderson Cooper was a no-show for Hurricane Ike in Houston.Tequila NostalgiaMy greatest tequila memory - and considering how much of it I drank I am surprised I have any recollection of it at all – spawned itself when my…Short prose
My Father's DementiaMy father’s dementia arrived bearing gifts: the politicians, once the catalysts of verbal rampages at televised Fox News reports, dance holding…Freezing TimeDeath has taken another friend.Tiny YogaFor the past 23 years, five times a week for an hour and a half, I have practiced yoga – the kind where your sweat spews like a fire hose through…Menopausal: To Be Or Not To BeApparently, menopause is not always a once in a lifetime experience.A poetry book and a new album
are on the way.
About Lise
One day Lise Liddell closed the door of her office at a Houston bank and cried. A colleague walked in and told her it was time to quit, and she did.
She had an MBA from the University of Texas and a career her father approved of. She traded it for a Houston theater company, a guitar, and wine bars and beer joints. The Houston Chronicle later praised her “pure, silvery voice.”
Her latest album, Untrodden Ways, includes songs written with Mark Hallman and Andre Moran. One sets a 1798 Wordsworth poem to music.
Her father recited poetry to his three children whether they wanted it or not. She writes her own now, along with essays. The music and the writing on this site are free.