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**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!

**MM_QFC!** · 05-31-2009, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Biciclista

keep moving those sore parts, Lise! I don't know what else to tell you.

and (blush) I got featured in the NY TIMES!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/ar...gn/31pain.html

Obama’s Face Rules the Web

By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: May 30, 2009
Mimi Torchia Boothby’s job as a technician puts her outside a wind tunnel every weekday at the Boeing plant south of Seattle, but in her free time two years ago she took up watercolors. Among her favorite subjects are cats, idyllic scenes of Italy — and, of course, Barack Obama, whose contemplative, sun-splashed portrait she completed a few weeks after his election as president.

Attagirl, Mimi! This is so well-deserved...blush all you want, but enjoy it to the hilt!
Beautiful work and now, great press: Congratulations!
Mary

**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

**Lise** · 06-01-2009, 04:16 AM

Hey, all,

We went for a really nice ride through the forest preserves yesterday. Loaded the bikes on the car and drove to the North Branch Trail. Temps were perfect, and the trail not toooo heavily used, though there were a few tight moments.

The best part was that I wore my biking shoes instead of sneakers for the first time since surgery. I've been riding for over a month, but the first time I wore bike shoes, clipping out with my left foot was very painful. Yesterday was fine! My foot is always sore, because a normal pace for me (walking, riding, whatever) is what most people seem to call "over doing it". So I take the Aleve and keep going.

I noticed that, clipped in, it sometimes felt painfully slow to ride behind John. Now this is a big guy-- 6'2", 200+# --but he often rides at a pace I consider, well, painfully slow! Some might say he's just enjoying the day... Then, at some point, he really poured it on, and I had to work to keep up.

It was a great ride, a great day, and I'm not even too sore. I've got a 6 hr clinic today followed by a 24 hr call starting at 10 tonight, so I'm glad I got in some fresh air and fun exercise this weekend.

Hope y'all did, too!

And Mimi, I said it before on another thread, but congratulations, and lovely work!

**Tuckervill** · 06-01-2009, 06:31 AM

I got my fresh air putting up the pool. Exhausting work.

Karen

**Biciclista** · 06-01-2009, 07:29 AM

thanks for the explanation, Tuckerville
LISE you go girl!!
can i retire now?

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