Crazy in Suburbia

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NejedlySuperintendent Patty WoolAlcohol Task ForceLou Ellen BurleighRetailKidsreadersCoffee housesSchool safetyContra Costa Community Development Block Grant ConsortiumLocal heroesexposing selfzoning adminstratorCD-19Kris BonfilJerry Leiberstate parksconcrete batch plantScott WeinbergPrimaryFresh Start Walnut CreekBroadway Parking GaragewerewolfRAMPARTMonument BoulevardMedical marijuanaChristmas treeElizabeth GilbertOakland BoulevardFrench LaundryEverest StudyTrevor TonsingVirginia MyerContra Costa TimesBuena Vista Neighborhood GroupDiablo Artscommunity conversationsSurvivorBlackhawk PlazaFrosting Bake Shopparental abductionWalnut Creek visionHarold JewettMichael KimmelCrazy in Suburbiasuicidal manworker dissatisfactionWalnut Creek PatchGary PokornyCrazy in SuburbiaScratching beneath the shiny, happy surface of a California suburbhttp://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)Blogger1298125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-571922195477953337Fri, 10 May 2013 21:23:00 +00002013-05-19T12:19:55.174-07:00Get your car washed Saturday by Las Lomas' championship wrestling team Get your car washed Saturday morning by members of Las Lomas High’s championship wrestling team! These DFAL champs and 9th place winners at the NCS competition will apply their strong team work ethic to making sure your car gets the championship car wash treatment. Where: Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ideal Miles Plus Gas Station, corner of Ygnacio Valley Road and Civic Drive Sales of donuts, http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/05/get-your-car-washed-saturday-by-las.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-5718244992810054039Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:34:00 +00002013-04-21T08:34:18.945-07:00Walnut Creek woman raises money for breast cancer survivors to attend Yosemite wellness retreat        After Eric Hall, his father and two teenage sons rescued a high school girl who had jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, they continued on their sailboat ride around San Francisco Bay but in a stunned silence, punctuated by brief conversations about the girl, how she was doing and the possible reasons for her jump.  "She's the same age as my boys," Eric Hall of Walnut http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/suicides-in-public-placestraumatic-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4929483903669363894Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:37:00 +00002013-01-20T09:35:27.212-08:00Elderly selling off their Norco, other prescription drugs? More news from the Tough Times in America front. Yesterday, I became aware of a new demographic of drug dealer: seniors, the disabled or down-and-outers who sell their prescription drugs to supplement their meager incomes. The nurse discharging my mom from a skilled nursing facility near Rossmoor told us about how patients can potentially make $5 or more per pain pill they have received http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/elderly-selling-off-their-norco-other.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-2069716927330379353Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:12:00 +00002013-01-20T23:10:23.046-08:00SkyWest DevelopmentFacebookThe DomeCineartsPleasant HillDjango UnchainedI Saw It At the DomeI Saw It at the Dome: New Facebook Page Dedicated to Contra Costa's Retro Cinema Landmark I just got invited to join a brand new Facebook page, which asks people to share their favorite memories of seeing a movie at The Dome, the Pleasant Hill landmark movie theater that is slated to be torn down and replaced with -- ugh -- yet another sporting goods chain. I have many memories to share on the page, I Saw It At The Dome. I recently saw Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. I had http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-saw-it-at-dome-new-facebook-page.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-9063948743809845843Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:00:00 +00002013-01-18T08:14:50.621-08:00schizoaffective disorderdeathtrans ischemic attackContra Costa County Library systemskilled nursing facilityfallDel Valle High SchoolmotherTime Passes -- Part 1 On late Saturday, about 10:30 p.m., my 88-year-old mother called to me from her bedroom as I was getting ready for bed. She was sitting beside a dresser and pointing to an open drawer, stuffed with letters and cards from all sorts of people -- her older sister, some nieces, her grandchildren. The correspondence went back 10, 20 years. "Should I get rid of some of these?" she was asking me. "Oh http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/time-passes-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-7715136141627055060Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +00002013-01-16T06:48:06.752-08:00yogaself-hatredtouchpartner poseschild's posefearshameA Lesson in Touch, Fear and Acceptance Every once in a while, the teacher in my Sunday morning yoga class directs us to pair up with another student for a "partner pose." I always recoil at the idea, and apparently so do many of my classmates. On a recent Sunday, the teacher, Linda, wanted us to do a partner pose that would involve one person reclining back across another, crouching beneath in what's known as a "child's pose." http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-lesson-in-touch-fear-and-acceptance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-2158308824437096155Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:11:00 +00002013-01-07T10:08:55.131-08:00Elyn SaksUSCAmber Christian Osterhoutschizoaffective disorderMental IllnessGaining InsightNational Alliance on Mental IllnessstigmaschizophreniaSandy HookHuffington PostMental illness: Stigma starts at home  <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/mental-illness-stigma-starts-at-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4219312444858156878Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:30:00 +00002013-01-03T07:30:19.910-08:00Vice Ultra Lounge in Walnut Creek closes Cheeky as ever, Matt DeLima, the owner of the Vice Ultra Lounge in Walnut Creek, taped a faux press conference to announce he was closing his notorious night spot as of Jan. 1 -- after four years of hosting huge, partying crowds that sometimes turned rowdy and violent and necessitated police response. In the "press conference," seen here in this YouTube video that DeLima shared with http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/vice-ultra-lounge-in-walnut-creek-closes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-5226498657723864195Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:22:00 +00002013-01-01T11:57:56.418-08:00The Irresolute and other New Year's Day musings I failed in my New Year's resolution. The resolution was, OK, you'll start waking up early, so by 5:30 a.m., you'll be writing. Not anything specific, just writing. I know, getting up that early to do something sounds rather ambitious to a lot of people, but not necessarily for me, since I've always been an early riser. But I "slept in" -- until 5:50 a.m. and thought, screw it. I'll lie in bed, http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-irresolute-and-other-new-years-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-8055418736291810146Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:57:00 +00002012-12-27T06:57:21.351-08:00To better understand murder-suicide, look at suicide Writer Andrew Solomon makes an important point in a op-ed piece in the New York Times Sunday. As we try to understand the motivations of mass killers like Andrew Lanza, and the central role of firearms in these killings, we should focus more on why they want to kill themselves than on why they want to commit murder. When picking apart these crimes, we don't think much about the killers' desire http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/12/to-better-understand-murder-suicide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-8764562714788645347Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:57:00 +00002012-12-23T08:57:15.854-08:00The sorrows and joys of the holiday nostalgia blues Here is a blog I posted last holiday season. I was feeling particularly blue last year; not so much this season. But I believe some of the messages remain true about how nostalgia -- reminiscing about the past, reflecting on what has changed, what has remained the same -- can be healthy and lead to a new vision for the future. I have always loved the holiday season, but I've had the blues http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-sorrows-and-joys-of-holiday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-3572635401083193038Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:16:00 +00002012-12-23T08:59:08.516-08:00Gabrielle GiffordssemiautomaticsWalnut CreekBushmastermass murderOpen CarryPlaza EscuelaWalking DeadAdam LanzaMichael KimmelNewtonRachel KalisGlocksSandy HookThe lethal mix of aggrieved masculine pride, suicide and easy access to guns in Columbine, Virginia Tech and other mass shootings -- Newton, too? Ever since details emerged about how Adam Lanza massacred 20 first graders with a military-style rifle at a Connecticut elementary, I’ve been thinking back to that group of gun-toting Bay Area Open Carry members who came to Walnut Creek in 2010. Remember them? They came to a restaurant in Plaza Escuela. As you can see in this photo at left, they wore their weapons—unloaded—and ammo http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-lethal-mix-of-aggrieved-masculine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-2617018505816182000Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:39:00 +00002013-01-21T07:15:42.439-08:00SkyWest DevelopmentThe DomeCineartsPleasant HillDick's Sporting GoodsDavid DurantCineramaDomeCinema TreasuresSo It's Finally the End for the Dome? This is an annoying, disturbing recent development. The Dome movie theater, a landmark in Pleasant Hill and in the history of East Bay cinemas, is going to be torn down to make way for a sporting goods store. A CBS producer was at the CineArts theater Saturday afternoon, where I went to see the beautiful Helen Hunt-John Hawkes film The Sessions. "Oh shit," I said. "It's terrible news." http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/12/so-its-finally-end-for-dome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-3013657248874579774Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:46:00 +00002012-12-21T17:08:36.082-08:00“Flight” and the alcoholic driver <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/12/flight-and-alcoholic-driver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-9085832834015846066Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:08:00 +00002012-11-19T12:44:23.742-08:00Dashboardstudent stressSan Ramon ValleySchool LoopMonte Vista High SchoolAcalanes Union High School DistrictParents' New Online Obsession: School Loop <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/11/parents-new-online-obsession-school-loop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-7956708311172286263Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:09:00 +00002012-11-16T06:29:24.734-08:00hyperlocal newsJD O'ConnorContra Costa TimesNews 24-680Walnut Creek PatchLamorinda PatchJim RomeneskoExciting developments in the East Bay's hyper-local news landscape <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/11/exciting-developments-in-east-bays.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross)4