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**Crankin** · 05-31-2009, 05:29 AM

Congratulations, Mimi!

I have to go to the "wedding from Hell" today. I think I wrote about it earlier, when I was annoyed about having to buy so many gifts for this person, who will never stay married.
Well, I will enjoy the lunch and dancing, and the fact that I get to be with my son, too. I feel so badly for my friend (the mother of the bride), who has put up with so much over the years, from this girl. Trying to be supportive, but both parents just give in to her. I would not be paying 20K for this wedding.

**redrhodie** · 05-31-2009, 06:29 AM

Wow Mimi! That's FANTASTIC! With Shep Fairey in the same article, too. Very cool.

**OakLeaf** · 05-31-2009, 07:09 AM

Yay Mimi!

**snapdragen** · 05-31-2009, 07:20 AM

Tres cool Mimi! I must say, of the paintings they had in the slideshow, yours is the best.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 05-31-2009, 08:16 AM

congratulations mimi!!!!!

Great job. Your art is really taking off!

**NbyNW** · 05-31-2009, 08:46 AM

Congratulations, Mimi! What a wonderful way for your work to be recognized!

**PamNY** · 05-31-2009, 09:12 AM

Congratulations, Mimi. Great exposure and well-deserved, too.

It may not be apparent from the web site that this is a front-page story, at least in the home delivery edition that I get.

If you want extra copies, I can send you mine and probably snag my neighbors' as well.

Pam

**Tuckervill** · 05-31-2009, 09:18 AM

Way to go, Mimi.

I was in the New York Times once, too. Little ol' me, in Arkansas, talking about a radical educational philosophy. I thought it would escape notice in my little conservative town--but no, the local paper ran it on the front page on THANKSGIVING, so everyone in town read it! yikes.

Karen

**Biciclista** · 05-31-2009, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by Tuckervill

Way to go, Mimi.

I was in the New York Times once, too. Little ol' me, in Arkansas, talking about a radical educational philosophy. I thought it would escape notice in my little conservative town--but no, the local paper ran it on the front page on THANKSGIVING, so everyone in town read it! yikes.

Karen

What a trip! I didn't know they'd run it in other papers too.

Thanks everyone for all your kind words, I am truly overwhelmed!

**Tuckervill** · 05-31-2009, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by Biciclista

What a trip! I didn't know they'd run it in other papers too.

Thanks everyone for all your kind words, I am truly overwhelmed!

What happens is your local paper will monitor or get a notice (I don't know the apparatus) that the AP (or whatever news service) has mentioned a place in their distribution area. So, naturally, if they have the room and it's relevant, they run it, too.

It's a really good painting. I'm happy for you!

Karen

**salsabike** · 05-31-2009, 07:57 PM

Ho, ho, Mimi! It's delightful to see your talent getting the recognition it deserves!

Crankin, I sort of do, now, what you may be thinking about. Half-time school psychologist, pick up occasional consulting jobs in my other profession (workforce/economic development), and have triathlon training time as well as some measure of work-related sanity. It can work out, although probably not if one is the sole bill-payer. And it's very good for the soul.

Re people getting mad about what they THINK others say in posts...there should be a big sign on every online forum that says, "Please try to underinterpret what you read online and in email." Without hearing voice tones and seeing facial expressions, it's so hard to know if posts have any additional layers of meaning that you can't see easily on their faces. So it would be nice if readers would think twice or even more before they decide to take umbrage (barring the occasional blatant insult, which doesn't seem to happen much here).

Ugh. That wasn't very coherent and I am very pooped having just come back from out of town and not enough sleep last night. SO--I hope my meaning is...uh...sort of understood.

Funny how the oncoming of spring is also the opener for hurricane and tornado season. Bleah. I don't miss Michigan's tornado warnings one bit. Better come up here and visit, bmccasland. We're entering our benign season, here. (as opposed to the fall and winter flood and windstorm phase)

I have the world's most wonderful tea rose. It's called "Sheer Bliss". It has very pale pink, long blossoms and the most wonderful light fragrance, and it is unbelievably vigorous and just blooms its head off from May through the first frost. It has about a dozen blooms/buds on it right now and it's right off the porch/outside the weaving studio window.

**Zen** · 05-31-2009, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by salsabike

Re people getting mad about what they THINK others say in posts...there should be a big sign on every online forum that says, "Please try to underinterpret what you read online and in email." Without hearing voice tones and seeing facial expressions, it's so hard to know if posts have any additional layers of meaning that you can't see easily on their faces. So it would be nice if readers would think twice or even more before they decide to take umbrage (barring the occasional blatant insult, which doesn't seem to happen much here).

I understood it quite clearly.
But keep in mind i speak fluent Gibberish

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