Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline writes a column, Chick Wit, for The Sunday Inquirer's Image section. She.is a New York Times best-selling author of 14 novels, all set in the Philadelphia area, and a former trial lawyer and law clerk. Winner of the Edgar Award for suspense writing, Scottoline teaches a course called "Justice and Fiction" at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She is a Philadelphia native who lives in Chester County with her daughter and four dogs.

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Chick Wit: Pimping the family at Thanksgiving

By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

Posted 11/20/2009

This Thanksgiving, I'm pimping out my family. As you may know, my book of these columns is titled Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, and it will be published on Tuesday, two days before Thanksgiving. I'll be doing a short tour for the book, and thought it would be a great idea to get Mother Mary to come along to a few signings, because she gets more fan mail than I do.

Chick Wit: Dog-daze afternoon is the solution

By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

Posted 11/13/2009

This is a world in which the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but I'm wondering if we should change that.

Chick Wit: What's this about set it, forget it? - 11/06/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

Not only are my appliances breaking down, they're conspiring against me. Or at least, though they claim to make my life easier, they really make it harder.
Chick Wit: Where food gets made, to disorder - 10/30/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

If Freud had wanted to know what women want, he could have asked. If he'd asked me, I would have answered:
Chick Wit: Brother's soul finds a way to beat aging - 10/23/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

I just got off the phone with Mother Mary, who's lost her mind. Or maybe it's Scottoline birthday madness. Let me explain.
Chick Wit: Confessions of a nut addict - 10/16/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

Addictions sneak up on you. They lure you in, teasing you, and before you realize it, you have a craving you can't deny.
Chick Wit: Each decade, words that define a life - 10/09/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

I think a lot about words, and I like to choose the most important words for the decades of my life.
Chick Wit: If you sweat a deadline, you're lucky - 10/02/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

The good news is that I didn't have mange. The bad news is that I had poison sumac and a deadline.
Chick Wit: The critters return with a vengeance - 09/25/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

It's that time of year, when nature comes too close for comfort. My spiders are back, which means that when I open the front door, they rush over the threshold, scurry into the living room, and take the good chair.
Chick Wit: New book written off by Mom - 09/18/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

I have big news. Not as big as a puppy or a date, but big. These columns, more than two years' worth, are going to be published as a book. The title is Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog.
Chick Wit: - 09/11/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

Lisa Scottoline's "Chick Wit" column does not appear today.
Chick Wit: The undoing of Mom's list of taboos - 09/04/2009: By Lisa Scottoline, Inquirer Columnist

Mother Mary is visiting and daughter Francesca has come down from New York, so three generations of Scottoline women are under the same roof. Some call this a family staycation, but I call it a slow death.