http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ image inhabited text and life on the side en-us elissa@weichbrodt.org 2006-12-03T20:00:28-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/042335.html My urban location may change, but I'm planning on keeping the last name: elissa.weichbrodt.org. Could be fun.... 42335@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Blogging 2006-12-03T20:00:28-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/038697.html There's still a little too much going on to distill into well-crafted, personal life prose. I submit, instead, verbal postcards: A large, dimly green glass aquarium fed by a dripping pipe and filled with heftily proportioned live frogs All that... 38697@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-08-22T11:15:30-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/038553.html Internet access has arrived at the new Weichbrodt household. Huzzah.... 38553@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-08-17T21:04:30-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/038280.html Sporadic internet connectivity does little to inspire prose. Still, we update. How We Save the Environment: Noel has begun taking the train to work. How Elissa Keeps Busy: translating her German book on Paul Klee and painting the edges of... 38280@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-08-09T10:48:25-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/038062.html I never considered my life in Chattanooga to be particularly dull. But, St. Louis life thus far -- all six days of it -- has certainly one-upped my former southern home in terms of excitement. Consider: On Saturday we (with... 38062@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-08-03T19:34:07-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037914.html We now officially own one-tenth of this house. Our credit union owns the rest of it, but they're nice enough people to let us stay there and do wonderful things to increase its value. After much wading through papers... 37914@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Domestic 2006-07-27T17:49:24-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037864.html Tomorrow, we become home owners. Due to the (actually serendipitous) misalignment of Noel's start date, the closing date of our house, and our moving date, I am taking a forced, midweek vacation from the whirlwind of packing and cleaning.... 37864@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-07-25T18:38:52-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037769.html The busyness of planning for, packing, and effecting a move leaves little time for cogent reflection. Even when tackling emotional baggage, I've found myself thinking more in questions and lists than sentences or paragraphs. (Also, apparently, I make more... 37769@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-07-21T08:24:30-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037426.html Bye, Bruce.... 37426@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Beautiful Game 2006-07-14T15:54:12-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037316.html 37316@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Small, Shiny Things 2006-07-10T10:37:35-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037224.html The World Cup is drawing to close, and I'm in something of a bind. With Germany's devastating overtime loss to Italy yesterday, the last of my favored teams exited the tournament. The hearty Dutch are back with their windmills and... 37224@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Beautiful Game 2006-07-05T11:38:56-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037201.html Looking online at unattainable home decor objects in between packing boxes of more mundane possessions actually increases thankfulness for said pedestrian articles. Case in point? At least I don't have to pack this:... 37201@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-07-03T12:48:43-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037199.html Not only is July 3 my half birthday, it was something of a milestone two years ago on a beach in Hawaii.... 37199@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Carefully Dramatized Life Accounts 2006-07-03T12:36:07-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037141.html I stood outside Noel's office on Georgia Avenue, waiting for him to meet me for lunch. But, bespectacled as I was in my large sunglasses, I was actually enjoying a healthy, covert round of people-watching. The far lanes of traffice... 37141@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ People-Watching 2006-06-30T09:26:25-05:00 http://elissa.chattablogs.com/archives/037011.html This is the text of the seminar I gave at this year's General Assembly. You really need to see it with pictures. May I suggest opening a separate window and going to the General Assembly Visuals so you can click... 37011@http://elissa.chattablogs.com/ Art 2006-06-26T17:47:40-05:00