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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 GaragewerewolfRAMPARTMedical marijuanaChristmas treeElizabeth GilbertOakland BoulevardFrench LaundryEverest StudyTrevor TonsingVirginia MyerContra Costa TimesBuena Vista Neighborhood GroupDiablo Artscommunity conversationsSurvivorBlackhawk PlazaFrosting Bake Shopparental abductionWalnut Creek visionHarold JewettCrazy in Suburbiasuicidal manworker dissatisfactionWalnut Creek PatchGary PokornyScratching beneath the shiny, happy surface of a California suburbhttp://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)Blogger1248125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-6954193513130415175Sun, 20 May 2012 14:13:00 +00002012-05-22T14:04:23.655-07:00 <!-- /* 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/2012/05/gratitude-list-how-army-program-teaches.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4297931910457694537Thu, 10 May 2012 13:51:00 +00002012-05-10T08:20:54.109-07:00 Ever hear of Rhabdomyolysis? Me neither, not until the condition landed me back in the hospital nearly two weeks ago. Rhabdomyolysis: It sounds like some disease that members of Dr. Gregory House's diagnostic team would throw out in one of their brainstorming sessions. They have a patient in the ER, with a set of benign but baffling symptoms and a notable medical history. "Patient http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/05/medical-mystery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4298024359922229467Wed, 09 May 2012 04:22:00 +00002012-05-09T07:44:24.828-07:00 It's an intriguing idea: to invite George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd. to build a film studio in Shadelands Business Park. City Manager Ken Nordhoff has sent a letter to Lucasfilm, inviting the legendary film company to consider Walnut Creek as a new satellite location after it dropped plans to build its new facility  in rural Marin County, the Contra Costa Times reported. The 240-acre Shadelands http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-planet-should-george-lucas-place.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-8123028878541601278Tue, 08 May 2012 16:11:00 +00002012-05-08T09:21:26.092-07:00 In the days after the Walnut Creek City Council approved a new nuisance-based ordinance for regulating establishments that dispense alcohol, two businesses seemed determined to put the new law to the test. Walnut Creek Patch reported that a fight broke out at the Redux Lounge on Locust Street early Sunday morning, which resulted in two people being arrested and a 26-year-old Vacaville man http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/05/fights-crowd-control-problems-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4713100355208659812Tue, 08 May 2012 00:27:00 +00002012-05-09T07:40:16.230-07:00  UPDATE: The Mayor of Claycord reports that Mike Dunn AKA Radar has been able to get his health coverage back, thanks to the generous donations of businesses and individuals. So far, the fund has earned about $1,700, and a number of businesses donated $100 or more. Their names are listed on Claycord. The Mayor says: "Radar” is fighting a battle [with Stage 4 liver cancer], and all this http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/05/claycords-plea-for-help-for-local.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4063974683175872707Tue, 08 May 2012 00:10:00 +00002012-05-07T17:10:10.390-07:00The victims might know the robbers -- or vice versa. Think about it: Do the victims of home invasions ever turn out to be targeted at random? That's really only in the movies. The Walnut Creek police issued an advisory about two women and two men who barged into a house on Countrywood Drive just after midnight Monday, held the residents at gunpoint, ransacked the place and then left. Police sayhttp://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/05/thing-about-home-invasion-robberies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-8014178509285715687Fri, 04 May 2012 17:28:00 +00002012-05-04T10:36:32.870-07:00 <!-- /* 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/2012/05/not-just-about-sex-spring-awakenings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-3507051976457265387Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:20:00 +00002012-04-09T20:20:42.860-07:00Another news site is joining the landscape of online news sources in the East Bay suburbs. It will be Pleasant Hill Patch, covering, yes, the city of Pleasant Hill. And it is coming from the same organization, the AOL-owned Patch company, that has brought you Walnut Creek Patch (my former stomping grounds) and Patches in neighboring Concord, Lamorinda, Danville and San Ramon. According to my http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-patch-site-coming-for-pleasant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-5749499196020501502Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:55:00 +00002012-04-09T06:55:14.921-07:00 The Planning Commission will once again this Thursday evening look at Broadway Plaza's major long-range expansion plans, which include adding up to 300,000 square feet of new retail space in varying configurations and200 housing units. Another significant component of the project is the desire of Macerich, Broadway Plaza's owner, to close Broadway Plaza street. Macerich wants to transform http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/04/broadway-plazas-grand-plans-close.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-8143879194647260783Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:25:00 +00002012-04-09T07:18:39.855-07:00A 17-year-old Concord boy is in Juvenile Hall Sunday morning, after being arrested in connection with losing control of a Cadillac Escalade on Treat Boulevard, driving up onto a sidewalk and crashing into a family out bicycling. The crash killed a father and his 9-year-old daughter and injured another 12-year-old daughter. The Contra Costa Times has identified the drive as David Rosen. Readers http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/04/his-life-will-forever-be-changed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4097566844603764840Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:19:00 +00002012-04-01T19:21:19.593-07:00  In its 75 years as one of earth's most iconic human-made structures, the Golden Gate Bridge has also gained the macabre distinction as the world's most popular place for people to end their lives.  More than 1500 people have scaled the four-foot-high rail along the span's pedestrian walkway, then plunged 220 feet, usually landing in the churning, ice cold waters of San Francisco Bay. That http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/04/suicide-magnet-for-world-and-for-contra.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4909202235040580959Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:55:00 +00002012-03-31T16:08:58.678-07:00 Dame Muriel Spark, the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and many other novels and poetry, had this important bit of advice for writers. It comes from her 1988 novel A Far Cry from Kensington: “If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work...the cat will http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/important-advice-for-writers-cats-thing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-3319460076897916157Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:27:00 +00002012-03-31T16:09:56.790-07:00 <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @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 {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-lawsuit-targets-san-ramon-attorneys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-1086499052031491529Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:05:00 +00002012-03-27T22:33:34.967-07:00A notice went out that the Planning Commission will not consider Thursday a draft ordinance that could potentially give the city a new legal mechanism to close down any bar causing a nuisance and threatening public health and safety. The commission was scheduled to consider proposed amendments and additions to Walnut Creek's municipal code at its regular meeting. The notice said consideration ofhttp://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/long-awaited-ordinace-to-regular.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-5527371327047560421Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:02:00 +00002012-03-22T17:02:42.651-07:00Following a report from Walnut Creek police about a man stalking a 13-year-old female student at Walnut Creek Intermediate comes a report that students near two San Ramon elementary schools were contacted by a man in a car. Danville Patch reports that the San Ramon Valley Unified School District learned about two similar incidents in recent days involving a man in a parked car, rolling down his http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-suspicious-stranger-incidents-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-3369734977590606243Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:31:00 +00002012-03-22T16:59:35.160-07:00Walnut Creek police Wednesday released a sketch of a man who was stalking a female Walnut Creek Intermediate student near home and near school last week.  The man's attempts to offer the girl a ride and then showing up the next day near the school have prompted police to set up regular patrols around the downtown campus and WCI and Las Lomas High officials to urge parents to remind their http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/sketch-released-of-man-stalking-wci.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-5162812977258467295Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:35:00 +00002012-03-21T17:06:46.397-07:00 <!-- /* 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:"ＭＳ ゴシックhttp://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/norma-desmond-was-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-1001512484059622428Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:10:00 +00002012-03-16T18:10:27.842-07:00 "It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight ... " So writes Laura Hillenbrand, in her book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. The plight is shared by three survivors of a U.S. Army Air Forces plane that crashed in the Pacific Ocean in May 1943.http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/resilience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-2291989187308964703Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:59:00 +00002012-03-16T13:40:07.869-07:00Norm Wielsch, the disgraced former commander of Contra Costa County's drug task force, has repeatedly denied that his alleged drug dealing and other acts of corruption ever extended to sex trafficking. But that's not the story a Concord woman has told to state Department of Justice investigators. Jodi Simms, 37, told investigators she ran a Pleasant Hill brothel with the approval of Wielsch, http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/norm-wielsch-and-madam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-8571055915998592266Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:20:00 +00002012-03-17T08:35:54.172-07:00 <!-- /* 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/2012/03/stranger-alert-for-walnut-creek.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-645313069760969464Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:00:00 +00002012-03-14T15:00:25.097-07:00Sometimes I'll look at the obituaries. It's hard not to focus on a notice for someone who was too young to die of an age-related illness. For the death of a teenager or someone in their 20s, 30s or 40s, you'll often be able to decipher a cause of the premature death if the obituary doesn't specify. "Died suddenly" can mean the person died in a car accident. There are also phrases like "after a http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/grieving-family-challenges-stigma-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-1420655742809906470Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:26:00 +00002012-03-13T20:38:46.238-07:00 Making the rounds today of media watch blogs today is a story by a journalist about why he was fired from his job as editor of a suburban Southern California AOL Patch news website was fired a year ago.  Dennis Wilen said he lost his job with Brentwood Patch last spring after he posted a cartoon satire of the Cinco de Mayo attitudes of the affluent residents in his community. The cartoon is byhttp://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/is-this-cartoon-racist-and-does-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-8103970424010392477Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:39:00 +00002012-03-11T15:39:02.249-07:00 <!-- /* 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/2012/03/aisle-19-musings-on-sex-birth-control.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-5197252398879679710Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:30:00 +00002012-03-08T16:31:30.640-08:00 <!-- /* 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/2012/03/bad-habits-on-brain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-239044155809741001.post-4349853970451182519Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:08:00 +00002012-03-06T14:55:05.337-08:00 UPDATE Tuesday: Neiman Marcus Tuesday posted an article on its website with lots of cool images of the art that is coming to the Walnut Creek store. (Above is a painting Lakewater 10 by Robin Kandel) Neiman Marcus is set to host a grand opening gala Thursday night and then open its store to shoppers Friday. Not only will the department store chain offer a high-end retail experience, it http://crazyinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2012/03/art-of-neiman-marcus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martha Ross, formerly AKA Soccer Mom)6