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  • Post-It Note Tuesday: I got Things to SAY ...

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    Saw this on Lori's blog. I love Post-its, so couldn't resist. As she says, it's free therapy, and I can take all the free I can get.








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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:43pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Four Things, Monday Kvetching Edition

    Number of comments: 6
    I shouldn't be complaining, but the return of the cold, grey rain after two unseasonably gorgeous weeks is just depressing. Maybe I shouldn't have walked to work this morning: my khakis are wet from the knees down, my socks are soaked, and my shins and feet are freezing. Officemate, the [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:38am EST
    by LisaS

  • Test Drives

    Number of comments: 5
    Our Chess Club carpools kids from school to an after-hours tournament every Fall. Parents volunteer to drive 2-3 days each, and it balances out.

    This week is one of my turns as a child hauler.

    Well, I don't want to ride with you Mama. said the Girl.' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:12am EST
    by LisaS

  • the View from my Window: Been a Long Time

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    Apparently last month was just about the wettest October ever in St. Louis. And although the Monthly Climate Data shows that officially, we've had no rain on almost half the days this month, it's been dismally grey, enough so that people are discussing plans about building Arks with [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:05pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Wordless Wednesday: Turtles

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    Turtles, originally uploaded by clearview.

    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:46am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Our First Brush with Internet Crack

    Number of comments: 5
    The Boy rails against the inequities of life in a daily litany of complaints:

    Why do I have to have a sister? Oh God homework. My drawings suck--why is she making us draw on this? No, you don't understand, you can draw. I'm bored. Why doesn't my sister have' [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 2:42pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Wordless Wednesday: Fallen Ginkos

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    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 11:28am EDT
    by LisaS

  • 40 Bits of Lisa Trivia

    Number of comments: 7
    In honor of my birthday a couple of weeks ago, a few odd little tidbits about me:
    I live in the City of St. Louis, not to be mistaken for the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. Two different things.I sometimes think I'll stay here all my life. Not sure if that's [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:52pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Wordless Wednesday: Perched

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    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 3:48pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Oh, God, could it be the weather?

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    First the rainy, mild summer, too cool to foster good tomatoes, now the rainy cold drags the leaves off the trees before the colors have a chance to grow vibrant.
    I'm already tired of the premature greyness that saps my energy, assisted by the lingering of last month's illnesses that [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Not What I had in Mind.

    Number of comments: 5
    The story of my week starts with this: I got the damn flu. It's not terrible, but I'm tired and foggy from the Sudafed. And when I'm sick all of the obsessive aspects of my personality come out at their worst. I lack the strength to fight the urge to' [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:48am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Flu.

    Number of comments: 2
    I was really worried about the flu. I confess, I was.

    The version my family brought home is not particularly terrible, but annoying. Kid runs fever from 7-9 p.m. Goes to sleep, wakes up next morning with no fever and feeling just fine. But, of course (this was impressed [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:21pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Four Doors, Too Much, Too Fast

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    Driving to visit a new client down on the Macklind commercial strip in south city last week, I noticed a Maserati Quattroporte pulling up to the stop light at Lindenwood and Kingshighway. Over the weekend, driving by with the Husband, I mention it.

    Those are sweet. he [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Scorching Scorpions

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    The weekly update from my son's Cub Scout Den Leader started it:

    The boys voted on a Den Name tonight the "Scorching Scorpions". We will be getting patches for our shirt with a scorpion on them soon.

    Every time I think about it I hear Rock You' [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 9:46am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Catnip for Two, In Bed.

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    Walked into my room, arms full of laundry. Tripped over a stack of craft supplies in the doorway, where the Girl has been working since I turned the TV off earlier this morning, making toys for the household felines.

    Mary Dora is on my bed, on my side of [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 9:46am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Lemonade

    Number of comments: 5
    Mid-afternoon it occurred to the kids that today would be a good day for a lemonade stand.

    This has been a notion for a while, and we even bought lemons a couple of weeks ago, but the Boy was sick (with pneumonia, we later learned) so that weekend, the [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 8:53pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Nature vs. Nurture

    Number of comments: 5
    Finally, in the third week of school, the bus started running on time in the mornings.

    This is, of course, after we're already in the habit of running late in the mornings.

    And today, since the Boy got up late and then his father distracted him with their' [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 9:00am EDT
    by LisaS

  • The Path of Strength

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    Looking down my Facebook news feed this morning, every other post mentioned the events of September 11, 2001 in one way or another. "911 I'll never forget" "Finish the job given to us on 911" and other such messages filled the small screen of my Treo. I made a mental' [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 9:11am EDT
    by LisaS

  • With Chickens

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    Last night we went over to the F-- family's house for a little while so we could figure out the year for Brownies. A beautiful evening sitting on the deck while my girl and her girl climbed on the backyard swing set intermittently interrupted by the Boy, lifting himself' [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 11:36am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Four Things, Second Week of School Edition

    Number of comments: 6
    Also known as, so far, so good.
    Why, exactly, was I so worried about the Girl going to the gifted magnet? Why was I so certain that she would be overwhelmed by the workload and completely behind the Eight Ball from the first hour? She's not. So far, everything is' [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 2:37pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • King Kong, the SEIU Thugs, and Me.

    Number of comments: 7
    Thursday nights Chez S are generally spent eating in the kitchen, watching the local PBS station's talking heads show, Donnybrook. Local journalists gather around the table under the watchful eye of former Globe-Democrat editor Martin Duggan (who, at age 88, is apparently retiring this year) and discuss the issues.' [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:42am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Watch the Skies: Daniel X is BACK!!

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    I didn't remember at first what I had ordered that would come in a box. A little early for the bus, I grabbed a knife and carefully slit the tape. The black cover, the familiar lettering. Oh yeah, I thought, I signed up to review this' [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 8:39pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Nine Things I Learned from My Mother

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    In no particular order, nine things I learned from my mother, whose birthday was nine days ago.
    Find the fun in where you are. If life puts you by the side of a lake with no boat for a week, paint tiny scenes on the smooth, round rocks you [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 7:00pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • First Day of School ...

    Number of comments: 6
    So, since I last posted I've been working like crazy, drove 10+ hours, floated the Buffalo, camped out for one night and de-camped in a great hurry prior to a thunderstorm, and completely blew off my mother's birthday. Well, maybe not completely because I did let her buy us lunch [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • "I can't see you there!"

    Number of comments: 3
    Like many people all over the state of Missouri, we shopped until we dropped on Saturday, encouraged by the sales tax holiday. Yeah, focusing most of our back-to-school expenditures into one day made it a marathon trip by Chez S standards, but we saved almost $20, which is a week's' [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 3:33pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • School Daze, School Haze, School Forms, Blah.

    Number of comments: 5
    The sole item on today's to-do list: get the Girl officially enrolled at her brother's school.

    So we got in the car this morning and went down there. The new secretary buzzed us in, met us in the foyer. I stuck out my hand, introduced myself. She shook the [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • And Thus We Enter Pre-pubescence ...

    Number of comments: 3

    Saturday the Husband and I took the kids--and, since Mom had a migraine, their 12-year-old cousin Sara--to Six Flags. The two older kids, tall enough to ride everything, teamed together, leaving the Girl to lonely little-kidness with one or the other of the adults--usually me, [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 10:09am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

    Number of comments: 4
    Yesterday I shipped off $150 in cookie cutters I sold on eBay: three vintage Razorback cookie cutters the Husband's Mom & her friends made to sell in the early 1970's. Maybe I'm a fool, but I just can't see paying $50 for a single red plastic instrument for cutting raw' [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Frank Gehry's List of Ten Five Buildings ... and Mine.

    Number of comments: 3
    One of my twitter friends got me hooked on Charlie Rose again--he interviews more architects than anyone else in media ... nice thing about the internet age is that I no longer have to stay up until 2 a.m. watching it on PBS. So I'm listening to it as I' [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 10:46am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Ten Favorite Songs from the 80s

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    I'm fighting with words this week--three posts started and scrapped, so I'm trying to ease myself into it, like wading along the edge of the lake before leaping in full-body.
    In no particular order, ten songs I'm always glad to hear on 80's on 8 ...

    1.' [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 8:44pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Why He Married Me

    Number of comments: 9
    I'm groggily walking through the front hall in my yoga pants and purple sleep shirt. The Husband's awake, out of bed, sitting on the hall sofa reading the paper.

    What's this, you're up already but didn't do the dishes or make coffee? I ask.

    Green-gold eyes appear over' [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 12:13pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Four Things, Last Day of June Edition

    Number of comments: 4
    Sinus infection has kicked me more literally than not in the head. Ever since the cold while we were on vacation, I have just not been right, and even now, even now, after a 5 day run of azithromycin or whatever the generic name of the wondrous Z-pack is my [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 9:35pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Time for Lunch

    Number of comments: 3
    Yesterday the Girl went to Tower Grove Park for the Girl Scout Taste of World Friendship--an all-day field trip. As we walked across the street from the bus, I asked her about it. Oh, it was fun but I'm hungry. I didn't have any lunch.

    What? Why didn't you' [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 9:23am EDT
    by LisaS

  • A Quick Glimpse into Last Week

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    The first part of our trip was a jaunt down to Texas (via Granny's house in Little Rock), to baptize R-less's twins and hang out by the pool for a few days. Lots of good food and fun with friends.

    R-less, E & the [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 9:31am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Lucy, the Girl, & Me

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    Today was a driving day, up the Interstate from Dallas through Little Rock, then shifting north through Conway, up US 65 through Marshall to Mountain Home, listening to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader almost all the way, having finished the first two books on the [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 10:53pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • I Want Them to Remember Me

    Number of comments: 5
    The Girl got up early on the last day of school.

    I blinked in the light streaming from her bunk as I walked into the hall at 5:30 in the morning. Her bed was strewn with notebook paper, her blue pencil box open on the floor next to her. [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 8:30am EDT
    by LisaS

  • One From the Road

    Number of comments: 3
    Finally got on the road today at 3:00, after getting everything together and running all the errands on the way out of town. Pointed the red car south down I-55, and before I felt like I was settled into the driver's seat we were at the exit for 67 South,' [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 10:55pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • It's Raining Again

    Number of comments: 3

    Morgan watches the rain.

    The National Weather Service says we're dead even on average rainfall for the year, but it doesn't feel like it.  Saturday night, sitting in front of the Soldier's Memorial in the drizzle, the Husband handed me his cell' [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 6:56pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Fire! Fire! Fire!

    Number of comments: 3
    I drank all the iced tea, so now I'm drinking beer. Boulevard Dry Stout, to be precise: the penultimate last bottle from the six-pack I bought last Tuesday in the aftermath of the car fire.

    Car fire. Seems like everyone has a car fire story.

    My mom's car [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2009, 8:48pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • At This Moment ...

    Number of comments: 5
    Totally ripping off Bridgett here ...

    At this moment, I am finally listening to Hotel California after a week and a half of wanting to. For some reason it does not show up in the Artist Name search on the bottom changer, and I normally lack the patience [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 11:39am EDT
    by LisaS

  • She'll Like This

    Number of comments: 3
    The Girl showed this to her father on Friday. Oh, this is good, he said he told her. She'll like this.


    She handed it to me on Sunday morning after reading Architecture Colors and Cat Is Sleepy[...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Four Things, Rainy Wednesday Edition

    Number of comments: 3
    Oh, hello. It's Wednesday again already, isn't it? Last week disappeared in the flurry of getting out a set of drawings and cleaning for company and then the weekend flew by, and I eBayed a bunch of stuff I hauled out of the laundry room and now it's Wednesday. So' [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 9:50am EDT
    by LisaS

  • They say in the Girl Scouts ...

    Number of comments: 3
    I was a Girl Scout from the time I entered public school until after my parents split up in fifth grade. I loved it. I loved the orange fringes on my uniform socks, my green sash not quite full of badges, the meetings, the pledges, the songs ... all of [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 11:04am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Living in the Great Frozen North (Not)

    Number of comments: 3
    I'm keeping busy these days cleaning up--the Husband's folks are visiting this weekend. This morning's task is taming the Linen Closet so my mother-in-law doesn't have a heart attack looking for a washcloth even though I almost always set out at least two for her.

    So, here's the question:' [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 9:38am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Will Work for Mozzarella.

    Number of comments: 7
    Back in the 1930's, it was said that architects could draw anything but a sober breath. I aspire to that standard in many ways, particularly since the latest things to fall victim to household budget cuts are beer and Diet Coke.

    That's been the news in our profession for [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 11:02am EDT
    by LisaS

  • What I'm Up To: Reading.

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    I've been rather quiet lately, I know. Part of it is that I'm still fighting with the three posts I started and didn't finish last week. Part of it that I'm actually doing some billable work. But the other part is that I've been reading a lot lately, and given' [...]
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    Posted: April 13, 2009, 10:18am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Four Things, Holy Week Edition.

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    1. Maudy Thursday already. Busy with work, with household stuff, with catching up after our trip to Arkansas last weekend and trying to get ahead on cleaning up the house for the in-laws visit here in a couple of weeks. Waiting for all the volleys to come back to my [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 3:44pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • 25 Questions about Books

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    1) What author do you own the most books by?

    We have lots of Philip K. Dick, Heinlein, C.S. Lewis, and T.S. Eliot.

    2) What book do you own the most copies of?

    Somehow we've wound up with 3 sets of The Chronicles of Narnia. you'll see [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 11:32am EDT
    by LisaS

  • On the MAP

    Number of comments: 7
    This morning, my third-grader began taking the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) for the first time.

    It's not that standardized tests are unfamiliar to him; they take the Terra Nova from kindergarten forward, and like public schools everywhere, practice filling in the ubiquitous bubbles from preschool.

    But this' [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Forecast: Snow on Daffodils

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    Under cover of darkness, she steals out
    the back door into the alley, taking care
    to hide her face from the ever-watching cameras,
    the nosey neighbors, under a black shawl & long black coat
    She slips behind a bush where the alley
    and the building and the street [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 5:16pm EDT
    by LisaS

  • Reasonable Doubt

    Number of comments: 13
    All the evidence presented, we gathered around the table in the Jury Room. The two alternates took their black jackets off the coat rack, said good-bye as Bailiff Joe ushered them out.

    You're not supposed to go outside this door until there's a verdict. he said. He walked out. [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 8:05am EDT
    by LisaS

  • Thursday's List: a Morning Walk

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    This morning as I walked to work in the blustery greyness ...

    I glared at a guy in a green Camry, who rolled forward as I stepped into the crosswalk.

    I pondered today's Lent challenge from BustedHalo.com. I've been kind of following along with it, except when [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 9:24am EST
    by LisaS

  • G is for Genocide

    Number of comments: 3
    I woke up slowly, the Husband's shower sounding a hundred miles away. Why am I awake? I wonder. The radio. The radio is on. His radio is on. NPR, the familiar voice of Steve Inskeep. I laid in the dark and listened. Senator McCain on earmarks, cricket team attack,' [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 5:24am EST
    by LisaS

  • this Blog is Going in Circles

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    Where were we? Oh, back here again: Wednesday. The appraiser came and went yesterday, ending three days of flurry in turning the house from complete chaos to something resembling normal. The Husband brought home a dozen roses last night to thank me--this in addition to climbing on the ladder and [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 6:56am EST
    by LisaS

  • Maybe This is as Good as It Gets

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    Thursday already: hard to believe how this week has flown.

    One of my friends posted a Meme (to a private blog so no link) this afternoon--How Much Have You Changed in the Last 15 Years? It's the usual list of questions about tattoos, cars, marital status, location, but doesn't [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 1:41pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Four Things, Shrove Tuesday Edition

    Number of comments: 2
    Where to start?
    Can't believe it's Tuesday again, much less Shrove Tuesday, the true Mardi Gras. We just paid the credit card bills for the last of the Christmas/birthday extravaganza--how can it be time to give stuff up for Lent already? Oh well, at least there are pancakes tonight.
    [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 12:17pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Jim, Turn it Off

    Number of comments: 2
    Last night, smorgasbord night since the Husband went to the AIA meeting and I was too lazy to cook. We heated up leftovers and lounged in the kitchen as we ate. Jim Lehrer smiles from the TV above the door to the dining room, staring into the room as [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2009, 7:21am EST
    by LisaS

  • A Tisket, a Tasket, a Trillion in the Basket

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    47 is a great number: it's big enough that if you have 47 of something you have a lot of whatever it is, but not so much that you can't picture 47 of them in your mind. Not too far from Douglas Adam's mythic 42--and, Bonus!--it's a prime number, [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 7:41pm EST
    by LisaS

  • All that Prettiness Wasted on a Boy

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    All that prettiness wasted on a boy, said the grocery store stranger to Bridgett.

    When the Boy was small, similar comments were the stock of our daily life. He still has the same freckles on the same porcelain pale skin, the same blue-green eyes flecked with [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 9:16am EST
    by LisaS

  • Looking for Lincoln

    Number of comments: 3
    Last night we watched the second episode of Looking for Lincoln on PBS, not out of any great interest, but because was on at the time and lately we all have the winter blahs and are too tired for dinner conversation.

    Last week one of the trailers came [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 10:46am EST
    by LisaS

  • Love Notes from My Other Boyfriend

    Number of comments: 3
    My son has started leaving me little love notes everywhere: at the bottom of my yellow Post-it to-do lists, on a random page in my Moleskine, on a small sticky note stuck to my computer ....

    In pencil, in black ballpoint, in green felt tip, three words: I [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 9:57am EST
    by LisaS

  • I am the Eggplant

    Number of comments: 8
    It's Thursday and I'm sitting in front of the computer, being a vegetable. Not a potato--not quite that round. Not a carrot--not that brightly colored. Not cauliflower or spinach or rutabaga.

    I think, perhaps, I am one of those fancy eggplants, the ones that only seem French fashion model [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 6:18pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Down with PE Homework!

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    PE essay (name redacted), originally uploaded by clearview.

    Saturday morning, sitting at round Virco tables in the Westminister [...]

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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 9:36am EST
    by LisaS

  • Keeping an Eye ...

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    Keeping an Eye ..., originally uploaded by clearview.

    Yesterday afternoon the awards for Wash U's University Red Rook Chess League were presented.' [...]

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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 12:15pm EST
    by LisaS

  • No School for Phil

    Number of comments: 3
    Is today Monday, Mama? She was sitting on the window seat, already dressed for school in her khaki pants and light blue polo at 6:45 a.m.

    Yeah, sweetheart, it's Monday, the second of February. Groundhog Day. I put the milk back in the refrigerator as she stirred the blue' [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Five Things about Snow

    Number of comments: 4
    1. The sodium orange of the streetlights reflecting and refracting off of every individual snowflake ...


    2. The transformation of the everyday things of my walking commute fascinate me. The sharper rendering of the warp of a brick wall ....


    the sharper [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by LisaS

  • Snowy Night

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    Snowy night, originally uploaded by clearview.

    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 9:55pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Dodge

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    We headed down to Arkansas this morning to check on the in-laws. It was a bright, sunny morning, all the better to see the dark patches of ice on the highway before we hit them with the slick summer tires that prefer to be in positive degrees Centigrade.

    Most [...]
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    Posted: January 24, 2009, 3:25pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Wild Thing

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    Dinner. Croque Monsieurs, baked squash, spring mix salad.

    I glance at the Girl's plate as she pushed it away. You didn't eat your Frisee lettuce, I said.

    Oh no. she shook her head. It's too wild.

    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved.[...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2009, 8:03pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Tuesday's List: Open Letters

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    1. File this one in the No Wonder Normal People Equate Conservative with Nutjob file: the American Life League has decided that corporations can no longer choose to use the word "choice." Apparently the ALL felt that this statement, released by Krispy Kreme on January 14, 2009, [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 8:52pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Quote of the Week: a Word from Richard M. Nixon

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    I never thought I'd be posting a quote from Tricky Dick here, but a caller to Diane Rehm this morning cited this, and it struck a chord with me.

    Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2009, 5:04pm EST
    by LisaS

  • An Email from Mom: Deer

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    I got this from my mom today:

    So, I looked up "deer" in my Animal Speak book (the spiritual and magical powers of creatures great and small). It says: When deer show up in your life, it is time to be gentle with yourself and others. A new [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 2:44pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Another Tuesday, Another List

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    It's Tuesday. I'm making a list.

    I'm an on-again-off-again adherent to the organizational system known as Getting Things Done (GTD). One of the keys to GTD, one of the the reasons it works so well for me, is that you're supposed to do a regular "brain dump," where [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 7:00pm EST
    by LisaS

  • When Rock Stars Cry

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    I made a cover CD as part of an exchange project RebL put together last summer, and it's lately come back into rotation in the car. Track 4 is a reworking of When Doves Cry by a somewhat obscure band called World Bang, a guitar and drum track heavy version' [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2009, 9:57pm EST
    by LisaS

  • My Paper Dictionary Beats the Internet Version

    Number of comments: 4
    On my other blog, I write posts inspired by letters of the alphabet, in alphabetical order.

    I'm stuck on the letter Y. Last time around--which is to say, the first time around--I made a list of yellow things. This time, the only thing I have to' [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 9:18am EST
    by LisaS

  • An Update on the Cat

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    I've never totalled a car before, so I'm finding all of this very confusing.

    Apparently I slightly misunderstood our options. We have two:

    Negotiate the best price possible for the buyout, take the money & run. We could probably find another one like ours eventually, but given the [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 2:42pm EST
    by LisaS

  • R.I.P., Cat.

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    It was a beautiful car.

    When I was an undergrad, my academic advisor was Murray Smart, the Dean of the School of Architecture. Always impeccably dressed in an oddly geeky way, nice ties, a historian, with an odd way of talking that my [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 10:10am EST
    by LisaS

  • Five Minutes, Five Things

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    1. The New Year is looking busy. Have a continuing project, a new one theoretically starting this week, and several prospects--surely I can land one of them. Keep getting emails from other architects offering contract services. Glad not to be among their number yet.
    2. Today is Epiphany, the 12th day of [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 11:56am EST
    by LisaS

  • The Family Newsletter We are not Sending

    Number of comments: 4
    Dear Friends and Family,

    Another year has passed and it's once again time to update you all on what we've been doing for the last 12 months so you understand why we haven't had time to call, write or visit since October 2007. The fact is that since last [...]
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    Posted: December 31, 2008, 11:38am EST
    by LisaS

  • Ozark Sunset

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    Ozark Sunset - Winter, originally uploaded by clearview.

    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: December 27, 2008, 5:34pm EST
    by LisaS

  • The View from my Window: the Best Gift

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    Yesterday was busy: up at 4:30 a.m. and working all day, grabbing the last few gifts on a quick break from the office, 5 p.m. Eucharist at St. Mark's, dinner with my sister and her family in the bar at Maggiano's. Arrived home late, too [...]
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    Posted: December 25, 2008, 8:53pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Academic Stimulus

    Number of comments: 6
    We got our Academic Stimulus Packages last week. Alas, they were not checks, but 25+ page homework packets to be completed over Christmas Break. It was indeed a shock, one that sent me into tears because the time between Christmas and New Year's is the only time in the [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2008, 10:55am EST
    by LisaS

  • 25 Things about Christmas

    Number of comments: 4
    Trying to catch up today. Saw Bridget did this meme, decided to follow suit since I need happier things to think about after the stress of this week ....

    1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper for kids, gift bags or boxes for adults. I buy [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2008, 3:28pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Wordless Wednesday: The View from the Road

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    the view from the road, originally uploaded by clearview.

    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2008, 2:00pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Around the Curve

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    around
    the curve
    lickety split
    a beautiful car
    wasn't it?
    --Burma Shave billboard, 1953

    Southern Missouri, ~10:15 p.m. on a Sunday night. This is a trip that feels like the beginnings of the MIA summer all over again, the Husband brooding silent in his seat as [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2008, 3:28pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Getting to Know the Boy

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    In honour of his 9th birthday, an interview:

    Fave color: black

    TV Show: Pokemon

    Movie: Mew vs. MewTwo: the First Pokemon Movie

    Food: mac-n-cheese

    Fruit: Granny Smith apple

    When he grows up: Marine Biologist

    Best Vacation: the Cotton Bowl in January--no, no, [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2008, 1:40pm EST
    by LisaS

  • This'll Fix Ya Right Up.

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    The agenda for the Special Administrative Board of the St. Louis Public Schools for December 11:

    OPEN SESSION AGENDA

    1. Call to Order
    2. Roll Call
    3. Pledge of Allegiance
    4. Public Comments
    5. Superintendent’s Report
    a) Information Items
    Academic Stimulus [...]

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    Posted: December 05, 2008, 12:01pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Please Clarify: How Many?

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    Every year the condo association rents a 40-yard construction dumpster for spring cleaning purposes. It rarely comes in spring, and never fails to arrive in a week that's horribly inconvenient for us to actually utilize it: we're on vacation, dealing with family disasters, the Husband traveling four days, whatever.

    [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2008, 11:26am EST
    by LisaS

  • the View from My Window: Snowy Sunset

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    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 9:35pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Take That, DeBeers.

    Number of comments: 4
    Monday evenings the Boy has Karate and then his sister has swim lessons. This is the way of things, part of the rhythm of our lives.

    Turns out the Boy's best friend, Lucas, has an hour to kill that evening as well, while his mom takes her water aerobics [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2008, 6:58am EST
    by LisaS

  • Four Reasons Why the Friday before Thanksgiving Equals Anxiety

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    1. The Big Deadline is Monday. Got up early to work this morning. Computer keeps crashing. Add-on software that actually makes AutoCAD LT usable malfunctioning, and the company that makes it is in Australia, where it is 11:22 p.m., so forget technical support. My throat hurts and I'm perpetually thirsty but [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 6:21am EST
    by LisaS

  • Waiting for the Bus Sun, Again

    Number of comments: 2
    Rounded the corner onto Laclede this morning to find a tall pink-coated girl standing in front of our garden gate and a white car pulled up next to the curb.

    The driver beckoned. Hi, I'm [name] and that's [name]. She rides the bus with [the Boy] and since [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2008, 9:42am EST
    by LisaS

  • Two Morals to this Story

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    Last night we went to the Fall Performance at the Girl's school--a variety show featuring the work of three of the four performing arts courses offered at her school. There were kindergarten percussionists from Instrumental Music, dancers, choirs from Vocal Music, and mimes from Drama. This particular edition also featured [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 9:28pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Quote of the Week: Their Money Died

    Number of comments: 0
    From yesterday's New York Times:

    People are grieving. There was a death. Their money died.

    BARBARA GOLDSMITH, a semiretired psychotherapist in Delray Beach, Fla.


    I empathize with the elders in the story--for them, an entire vision of the order of the world and [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 6:27am EST
    by LisaS

  • Four Things that are Not Excuses

    Number of comments: 1
    1. Busy. Always surprises me how scheduled life becomes this time of year. Chess season is in full swing, with league play in its second week and the first scholastic tournament Saturday:



    Two wins for the Boy ...


    [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2008, 7:00am EST
    by LisaS

  • Wordless Wednesday: Morning in the CWE

    Number of comments: 1


    This grey November morning, looking out over the Park with its bare trees and browning grass, these photos trigger the yearning for golden October sunshine and leaves.This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 6:13am EST
    by LisaS

  • Wooden Toys

    Number of comments: 3
    When the Husband and I heard the story on NPR about the Stick being voted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, we started singing this:



    The deluge of toy catalogs started yesterday (note to self: must not let kids bring in mail) and the [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 7:06am EST
    by LisaS

  • the View from My Window: Golden

    Number of comments: 3
    This is a post from clearview All rights reserved. [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2008, 7:08pm EST
    by LisaS

  • Another Benefit of Standardized Testing

    Number of comments: 2
    After only an hour in line twittering and chatting with the neighbors, I'm sitting at the laminate-wood Virco table, staring at the long ballot, candidates and issues with empty white ovals beside them, separated vertically by grey ruled lines.

    I start at the bottom, at the Propositions and the [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 9:46am EST
    by LisaS

  • Just so you know, Obama is the AntiChrist.

    Number of comments: 4
    Listening to an interview about Hispanic voters on PRI/BBC's The World and I am gaping with disbelief at this:

    A woman's voice, lightly accented: He's turning everything into socialist. I think he's actually, honest to God, I think he's the Anti-Christ...

    Interviewer, slightly skeptical: What do you [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 3:57pm EST
    by LisaS
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