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Vagabond kitten comes wandering my way
Recently I’ve been wanting a kitten (or a cat, age isn’t a big deal) enough to make a habit of perusing the adorable furry faces on Craigslist. Still, I don’t really want the commit… more »
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Vagabond kitten comes wandering my way
Lisa Waananen wrote 3 days ago: Recently I’ve been wanting a kitten (or a cat, age isn’t a big deal) enough to make a h … more »
My Stimulus Check: A boring and anticlimatic story
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Lisa Waananen wrote 3 days ago: I’ve been half-waiting for my stimulus check for a while. I don’t do my taxes or have an … more »
Que listo, NYT
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Lisa Waananen wrote 5 days ago: This, from an article about catching rides on friends’ private jets in the NYT Sunday Styles s … more »
Awkwardness and toothpick history
Lisa Waananen wrote 1 week ago: I walked the block to the library on my lunch break today to read something interesting. I ended up … more »
Chocolate chip cookies for impatient bakers
Lisa Waananen wrote 1 week ago: The New York Times would make chocolate chip cookies ridiculously complicated. I, on the other hand, … more »
The meaning of "avid"
Lisa Waananen wrote 1 week ago: Today this photo caption struck me as odd: “An avid smoker, 24-year-old singer Amy Winehouse … more »
Baseball and fireworks
Lisa Waananen wrote 1 week ago: This is a little belated, but I had a good American Fourth of July evening at the ballpark. Nick ha … more »
Calls I answered at work, Week 2
Lisa Waananen wrote 2 weeks ago: This is a just a follow-up from last week’s pie chart of the types of calls I took last week, … more »
Mad poets of the mailroom
Lisa Waananen wrote 2 weeks ago: There’s a woman who writes crazy letters to the Spokesman every week. She writes on yellow ste … more »
Industry insight from dead civilizations
Lisa Waananen wrote 2 weeks ago: I once gave a friend advice about her hair length by explaining the economics concept of point of di … more »
Necessity is the mother of ingenuity
Lisa Waananen wrote 2 weeks ago: Yesterday at work I was asked to bring two portable police scanners to Radioshack because they woul … more »
Some words are awful
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Lisa Waananen wrote 2 weeks ago: I really dislike the word “youngsters.” I’ve been seeing it more recently, but it … more »
Like a Supreme Court Justice
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Lisa Waananen wrote 2 weeks ago: This NYT article is an unlikely combination of topics relevant to my interests: the Supreme Court a … more »
Baynes!
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Lisa Waananen wrote 3 weeks ago: Celebrity sighting, awesome! Cougar basketball player Aron Baynes was looking trim and teammate Cal … more »
Hoopfest takes over Spokane
Lisa Waananen wrote 3 weeks ago: I didn’t take that many pictures because I forgot to recharge my camera battery. This is from … more »
Part III: Portrait of the writer as a teenage scholar
Lisa Waananen wrote 3 weeks ago: This is the last of the self-indulgent posts about my early work, at least for now. Just in case any … more »
Part II: Portrait of the journalist as a young publisher
Lisa Waananen wrote 3 weeks ago: Sometimes I feel like I came into journalism late, that I’m behind people like Brian and Jacob … more »
Portrait of the artist as a young girl
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Lisa Waananen wrote 3 weeks ago: This is nothing but a self-archives vanity post where I laugh about what a precocious child I was. … more »
Neoverbs, from "gossiping" to "internetzing"
Lisa Waananen wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s a well-known fact among linguists that the natural life of English words is evolving from … more »
