Lisa Allen is a pre-licensed mental health counselor with a vision is to help others in a clinical practice that blends her passions for personal growth and creative self-expression.
Lisa first discovered the lure of writing while researching and writing travel news at Yankee magazine. Later, she wrote, designed, and self-published Eating Clean, a cookbook based on the healing and healthful benefits of unprocessed foods. An excerpt from her MFA memoir thesis, “Paradise Not Quite Found,” was a finalist in the baby boomer anthology contest “Times Were A-Changing.”
Once a year Lisa joins an author on the stage at Nashua (NH) Public Library for the Beyond the Book author interview event. Her interviews have included Julia Glass, B.A. Shapiro, Jennifer Haigh, Jenny Nordberg, David Grann, and Martha Hall Kelly.
Lisa is also an avid photographer of happy slice-of-life moments and peaceful garden vignettes. While working for her father’s graphics production firm in the 1970s, she had the opportunity to interpret the concept “green on gray” as images for illustrations in a children’s learn-to-read series. Shooting indomitable weeds in one of Boston’s toughest neighborhoods was likely the genesis for her current Instagram hashtag “urban nature.”
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When I was a child (less than 10 – I was born in 1971) my uncle, Arnie Ehrlich, was managing, or had some connection with the band Gesh. He had my dad, Robert Sherman Ehrlich (we were living in Brookline, MA) bring my sister and me to a Boston club where Gesh was playing at the time. It is funny now – I only remember random flashes of memory from that night – mostly a lot of loud noise and a bunch of tall people and chaos (to me) everywhere.
**Most important** There was a strong rumor that Gesh was a cousin of ours, but unknown where/how. Would love to find out more about the Gesh family and maybe see if anyone knows where that connection might be?
Thanks.
Scott – srehrlich@gmail.com
Bob Gesh, Bobby Rabbit, or as I knew him, Bobby was my 1/2 brother. I idolized him when I was a kid. I loved him with all of my heart and I miss him terribly. I often goggle his name in hopes that his name pops up and it usually does.
Greetings – Do you have any insights about Bob Gesh? I’d like to learn more about him. Thank you.
Hi Lisa,
On a whim, after catching a moment of Eddie Money’s Shakin’, I googled “Bob Gesh Rabbit.” wishing it was him singing it. And what came up but your wonderful picture of Bobby signed in his characteristic handwriting …So I wonder who you are? and how you knew him…and whether you miss him as much as I sometimes do. Just shared the picture with his (your?) old friend Nick Bessie, who may, like I did, burst in to tears when he sees it.
Thanks,
Deb
Hello Deb,
I do indeed miss Bobby Rabbit – he was one of a kind and a dear friend from the first day I met him. The name Nick Bessie rings a bell, too. Let’s be in touch and trade tales! Thanks so much for writing,
Lisa.