31
Aug
Posted by merlisser in Melissa's life. Leave a Comment
Schuyler’s Chicken
Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob
Some people like Bellesouth are already thinking about Halloween costumes but I say that no matter what you wear, your Halloween costume will not be as awesome as this man in a chicken suit right here.
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30
Aug
Posted by merlisser in Uncategorized. Tagged: fear. Leave a Comment
So I took Sadie for a walk, right past the house where the pit bull lives. What else was I going to do — get her a treadmill? No, she’s a tracker. She lives to walk along sniffing things. And, anyway, you just can’t stay holed up. You’ve only got this one mongrel life, and [...]
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30
Aug
Posted by merlisser in Uncategorized. Tagged: mystery. 4 Comments
Like everybody else and their Mama who has any access to the internet whatsoever, I have a facebook account.
It’s here. Melissa SawyerCreate Your Badge
Anyway, it’s not a big secret and there you go.
It has a hodge podge of lawschool classmates, college classmates, high school classmates, and friends and colleagues I have amassed over the years. [...]
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27
Aug
Posted by merlisser in Uncategorized. Tagged: inspiration, Nelson Mandela, quote. 1 Comment
“Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of [...]
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25
Aug
Posted by merlisser in 101 in 1001. Leave a Comment
“They Call the Wind Mariah” from Paint your Wagon is one of my mother’s favorite songs. Oh she loves this silly thing.
Hey guys remember how I said it was one of my 101 things to see Nine Inch Nails live in concert? Well they are currently on their last [...]
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22
Aug
Posted by merlisser in movies. Tagged: 2009, Amy Adams, craziness, food, Julia Child, Julie and Julia, Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, Julie Powell, Meryl Streep, movies, The Art of French Cooking. Leave a Comment
Julie and Julia is based on two true stories: Julie Powell writing a blog, which later became the book Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
, chronicling her year long quest to cook every single recipe in Child’s The Art of French Cooking and the story of how Julia Child discovered cooking and [...]
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13
Aug
Posted by merlisser in Melissa's life, movies. Tagged: 2009, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Sixteen Candles. 1 Comment
Molly Ringwald wrote this editorial in the New York Times about John Hughes. The most poignant paragraph about his later films.
None of the films that he made subsequently had the same kind of personal feeling to me. They were funny, yes, wildly successful, to be sure, but I recognized very little of the [...]
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8
Aug
Posted by merlisser in 101 in 1001. Tagged: 2009, Arkansas, life goals, lists, marathon, running. 1 Comment
All right. I have been a little busy and a little burned out on posting on this blog but here we go. The update on my 101 in 1001 list.
Obviously I still have thirty things to add but since I have a little less than three years to add things I’m going to leave [...]
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8
Aug
Posted by merlisser in books. Tagged: 2009, BBC, books, lists. 2 Comments
This is a cheesy meme from facebook but I love books so much I thought I would put it here.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those [...]
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6
Aug
Posted by merlisser in Uncategorized. Leave a Comment
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. Anais Nin
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