January 2012
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Falling in Love and the Rules of Art
Here is how I fell in love with my husband:
We were in Frank Roth’s painting class at SVA for our first critique. Frank asked someone to begin and Sean volunteered, starting with the phrase, “I like …” Incensed, Roth interrupted him and screamed, “I don’t care what you LIKE. I LIKE my fucking raincoat. Critiquing art work is not about what you LIKE.” And...
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Mom to Four, Wife to One →
(click on title to view photo journal)
Recently someone asked me how many children I have and when I answered four, they replied, “ALL WITH THE SAME PERSON?!” Um… yup. Then, last night, when our family was out at a restaurant for dinner, the manager came up and cooed over Quinn. “I’m forty years old and just had my first son,” he declared, “but...
December 2011
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Postcards from Italy...: loveyourchaos: incenses:... →
loveyourchaos:
incenses:
”I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them that no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and you saw them crying in their bed at night or singing to themselves as they make a sandwich or even…
November 2011
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August 2011
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preview to a novel (maybe)
I dunno, maybe it’s a short story. I started it almost two years ago. Maybe it will never evolve. Maybe it will be amazing. Preview the first two pages here:
Late February rain poured down on top of last week’s snow. As Kylie drove she remembered what it was like to clean dirty chalkboards with fat yellow sponges. It seemed to her that the winter rain was trying desperately to give the...
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http://portfolios.sva.edu/kellyfrederickmizer →
Finally, I am getting some of my work out there on my alumni site. Yay SVA.
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Self Actualized and Sr. Joan
Last week my mom and I got a phone call from a nun, asking if we’d like some donated art stuff from the convent. Seriously, who would say no to that? Turns out that the nun was my fourth grade math teacher, Sr. Joan. Sr. Joan is as much of a character today as she was back in the late 70’s and I’m pretty sure if you looked up the word “spunk,” she’d be in its...
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loloINK books now DIGITAL →
I’ve been watching Quinn chew the corners of his board books this week and decided that it was time for me to give in to the Kindle age. All of my books, including great reads for kids, are now available as digital downloads. Better yet, they are all on SALE. Click on title link to buy. Shop, shop.
(when i am rich and famous, i will be the best sharer)
July 2011
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Goodbye at 2:12
My grandma died yesterday.
The loloINK grandma.
No one called her Lolo until Luke was born and he couldn’t say Grandma Lois. It’s weird how that caught on. I can’t imagine calling her anything else now, but most of my life she was Grandma Lois.
She died at 2:12pm, which is the exact same time that I was born. That was a full circle moment for me and having her close our...
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My Eight Shot
I considered starting a few different blogs today, in hopes that I might be able compartmentalize all of the schizophrenic pieces of me that are out there in cyber space, but each time I tried to start one, I got stuck in the “About Me” section.
For some reason I flashed to my senior year in college when I was reading Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I...
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Goodbye Lady Parts
Miss Gloria had a hysterectomy when I was in fifth grade. I loved Miss Gloria because her eyebrows were painted on. It looked like someone had taken fat, orange Crayola markers and gently swiped them above of her drooping eyes, as if to say, “There. That’s better.”
I remember her telling us that she would be gone for about eight weeks. The other kids at my reading table accepted that and...
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Almost Enormous
I was shopping yesterday and overheard a woman sigh, “That is the second thing that I found that I like that is an extra small in the large section. I am done!” I have been there sister, again and again.
Then I came home and read my friend Martina’s blog, which emphasized self love and appreciation over an obsession over every little pound. I’ve been there too.
Here is...
June 2011
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Blank Paper Syndrome
I have been unable to draw since Quinn was born, and not just because he is all consuming, but because he was life altering. My older work feels a million miles away and I am unable to connect to how it even came to be. I am craving sharp pencils and crisp paper and the smell of ink and coffee, but am paralyzed with the wonder of what might show up there. Someone recently asked me, “What have you...
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Mighty Q →
Quinn will be ten months old next week and sometimes it is hard to remember, even though it was only months ago, that his entire hamster self fit into my palm. The story of our 108 day journey through the NICU can be read here.
July 2010
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Teddy Craves Pancakes and Maybe Some Toast by... →
All new prints available on etsy. Inspired by pregnancy cravings and baby number 4.
February 2010
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Heads Tails and Other Parts Set of 10 Greeting... →
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loloINK books 10% off with code READMORE2010
Enter READMORE10 at checkout and receive 10% off any loloINK book. http://stores.lulu.com/kmizer
December 2009
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November 2009
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October 2009
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20% Red Cabbage and Breakfast in Bed this...
http://stores.lulu.com/kmizer is having a sale. Use the coupon code FALLBACK (good through November 2) to receive 20% off.
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New Holiday Tags at loloINK Etsy →
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October Discount on loloINK's books
Use code FALLREAD at checkout to save 10% on Caroline’s Wish, Summer of the Pigeon, and Waiting for You. www.loloink.com
September 2009
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Lateral Thinking and Underwear
I am currently having AP students pay close attention to their lateral thinking. I asked them to record and share when their thinking seems to drift. Where does it go? What leads one thought to the next? It has lead to very funny discussions.
Part of our deal, as a class, is that I share first (each morning) and that they only have to share once a week. At this point of the year it is still too...
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Sundays Aren't for Teachers
Here it is, Sunday night, eleven PM. Teachers should be sleeping.
The problem is that I am not so good at the early bedtime and I am GREAT at sleeping past nine. The other problem is that schools have bells.
In any other profession, it doesn’t really matter if you arrive at 7:59 or 8:02 and even if you DO arrive at 7:59, you have time to settle. You get to “water cooler it.”...
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Save 20% on loloINK books Labor Day Weekend
LULU is having a weekend sale. Enter the discount code WHITE at check out. Find the books at www.loloink.com. Coupon is good until September 7.
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I know it's only September, but . . .
So I saw my first Halloween things in stores today, which means that it’s time to start thinking about the whole holiday season. I remember once seeing Kirstie Allie on Oprah and Oprah asked her guest if she was a binge eater. Kirstie Allie replied, “No, not at all, unless you count the period of time from Halloween to Valentine’s Day.
That said, loloINK is now taking orders...
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