It’s been a great week so far, any way you look at it (provided you weren’t looking at it from Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea or the house of Centene communicator and former television anchor Deanne Lane, who is mourning the sudden death of her husband, consultant and avid golfer Greg Goodrich. . . .A family of restaurants has grown to three with Ellen Schmitz‘s just-debuted Mosaic Bistro Market on Central Avenue in Clayton. It features French inspired fare. Her siblings, Frank and Carl Schmitz, own BARcelona and Mosaic Modern Fusion Restaurant. . .Nearby, that big colorful World News is filled with newspapers and magazines from around the world. Some are serious, some scurrilous, some silly, some trashy, some slightly pornographic, but they all seemed to be healthier than the neurotic notions being peddled upstairs under the American flag. How appropriate that the popular American philosophers of the day are those who write for consumers, automobiles and physical fitness. But then there’s St. Louis magazine’s style editor, Nicole Benoist Edgerton, who has chosen the best-dressed townies for 2010: Dawna Sturdivant; Frankie Muriel; Diane Breckenridge; Alex Russell; Beth Davis; Alex David; Retta Leritz DiFate; Mike McMillan; Sarah King and Mark Austin. . . .Metro passenger to a retired employee, “Does this Metro stop everywhere?” Metro staffer to passenger, “Sometimes even oftener Man, do I get sick of being quaint and colorful”. . .Comes Stan Kroenke, the new owner of 60 percent of the Rams to play a game a different way, not necessarily better. . ..Donna Wilkinson is lamenting the loss of her quality assistant, Jim Timmerberg, who has opted to work for a company in Colinsville, IL., after serving our town’s leading fund-raiser for 16 years. . .Nan Fowler, former sales exec with the beleagured NPS, has bowed her own firm to serve funeral homes with products. Her credo? “I believe every life should be celebrated and every service be meaningful”. . .Is it true that a local hospital will dub its baby show as the “Heirport?”. . .And, don’t you love the refrain, “I’ll vote for him even if he can’t win?”