tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41495495651659945742024-03-05T00:45:14.034-05:00Our Year at The FahmLong-time urbanites relocate to a 270 year old farm in rural New England. Domestic chaos ensues, resulting in "...a year's worth of hilarious observations and amusing anecdotes." - <i>Kirkus Review</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger488125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-88148283643072896122014-04-02T19:09:00.000-04:002014-04-23T15:19:12.065-04:00'Our Year at The Fahm' - After 4.5 *Actual Years* - is Drawing to a Close<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As all good things must do, our time here at The Fahm as full time residents is slowly drawing to a close. I am fresh off a month-long employment and housing exploration in my favorite hometown ever, Santa Cruz, CA, where we will be relocating - at least part-time - sooner rather than later.<br />
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The plan has been in the works for more than a few months and we are slooowly starting to see results in the form of multiple job interviews become reality squeezed in between walking Molly (Mom's new dog; along West Cliff Dr. and the rest of the west side), visiting The Buttery and Emily's, frequenting New Leaf Market (downtown and west side), Trader Joe's (downtown), Safeway (west side), visits with Elizabeth Quinn near the yacht harbor, and more trips than I care to admit to Bookshop Santa Cruz (downtown).<br />
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O! I do so love Santa Cruz, that hippie-welcoming, patchouli-scenting, alternative lifestyle-promoting, CSA/Homeless Project-pioneering, surf-obsessing, consciousness-raising, Silicon Beach-aspiring, sea lion-loving, Poop Fairy-denying, tree-hugging, real estate price-gouging sanctuary on the Montery Bay, where my family history stretches back over three decades, and our "ancestral manse" (such as it is) is located...<br />
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Much has changed for me, for us, for everyone, since late 2009 when we last resided in the San Francisco Bay Area, and even more has changed since I left Santa Cruz (under protest) for Oakland in 2002. Some for better, some for worse, some TBD. But this is a homecoming nevertheless, and excitement abounds!<br />
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Moving forward, there will likely be no more NEW Our Year at The Fahm posts. Should you wish to, you can follow details of my new exploits, adventures, art works, and items of general interest at the blushingly bare (for the moment) <a href="http://www.saraparker411.blogspot.com/">www.SaraParker411.blogspot.com</a>. Stay tuned there for more soon...<br />
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Last weekend Raj and I took a little road trip to the Berkshires and beyond to hear some music, see some friends, and make a short literary excursion to North Bennington. We left the Fahm during a snowstorm which is something we rarely do. For one thing, driving during a snowstorm is no picnic, and for another, well, we just don't. Real snowstorms inspire my coziest fantasies of being near a roaring fire with a book or a game of Scrabble. Driving away from the Fahm in the snow seemed rather strange.<br />
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Note to self: next time, stay at the Holiday Inn or Howard Johnson's or any other chain where the surroundings are likely less rustic than at The No Name Inn. Resigned to our fate (and non-refundable room payment) we got in the car and drove to the Holiday Inn which not coincidentally is where we ate supper in the tiny town of North Adams, MA, on our way to see roots reggae Rastafarian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Spear" target="_blank">Burning Spear</a> play at <a href="http://www.massmoca.org/" target="_blank">Mass MOCA</a>. From supper we walked to the museum.<br />
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We retrieved our tickets from will-call without incident and were issued wrist bands. Burning Spear plays reggae music and we were among an eclectic crowd of all ages, although being the Berkshires and all, it was primarily white folks in the audience. That's OK, we like white folks just fine. ;)<br />
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Raj has been telling me about Burning Spear forever and this was my first time seeing the legendary man himself on stage. He did not disappoint.</div>
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The four of us wriggled our way up as close to the stage as possible; it was a great crowd and people just let us sort of ooze our way to the front with no problem. Then the band started playing, and everyone was dancing, and it was nuts. I had to excuse myself more than once to get cool air on my skin; 2,100 people dancing in close proximity to one another generate a lot of body heat! After playing a nice long set <i>and</i> three encores, the show ended. We walked back to the car sweaty and exhilarated. </div>
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We got back to the motel and Marley ducked into the bathroom for a quick shower. He emerged, shivering, moments later; the hot water had run out. We turned on Winter Olympics reruns, none of us expecting to sleep but we did, until early the next morning when we stumbled out of bed, checked out, and went to the <a href="http://www.chefshatdiner.com/" target="_blank">Chef's Hat Diner</a> for breakfast. </div>
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After breakfast, Marley had dreams of snowboarding down the <a href="http://www.thunderboltskirun.com/history.html" target="_blank">Thunderbolt Ski Trail</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Greylock" target="_blank">Mount Greylock</a> so we were headed down to Adams to drop him off at the top. We had no fixed idea as to where the Thunderbolt Ski Trail was actually located so we eventually found ourselves at the Adams Visitor Center...</div>
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It was as we mumbled despairingly in the parking lot that a kindly pedestrian approached who happened to be a volunteer at the Adams Visitor Center so he was able to fill in a few gaps for us. Most importantly, that roads up <a href="http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-west/mt-greylock-state-reservation-generic.html" target="_blank">Mount Greylock are <i>also</i> closed</a>, for the winter, unless there is a special event.</div>
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Shortly after that we parted ways with Dean and Marley. They were headed home so Marley could get to his Sunday afternoon job at the <a href="http://wendellcountrystore.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Wendell Country Store</a>, the slogan of which is, "We're all here 'cause we're not all there"; we were headed back north to Vermont, specifically, North <i>Benn</i>ington, Vermont, on a literary adventure.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-33001118981788264152014-01-31T15:29:00.000-05:002014-01-31T15:29:17.473-05:00"My friend hurt her foot..."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"...so I'm going over there to empty her mouse traps for her. " -My friend Andrea today on the phone, when we were making some plans. Welcome to life in the country!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-78978873999912318042014-01-27T04:04:00.000-05:002014-01-28T15:55:48.928-05:00There Have Been Some Shortages - Reprise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Last week, hardware stores began running low on snow removal supplies and by the time the last storm was over, they were pretty much out. There wasn't a roof rake, snow shovel, or box of hockey puck salt tabs to be found anywhere, not to mention snow blowers. When Home Depot is sold out of a big ticket seasonal staple like a snow blower, you know you're having a serious winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The good news is, I have found a way to reuse our sock singles! In a fit of DIY, I asked Raj to rummage through his sock drawer for singles and worn out socks while I bustled off to the hardware store for a bag of calcium chloride. Raj managed to produce 19 socks and I filled them each with a fist-sized portion of the stuff. We raked the roofs and flung the sock bombs strategically which means aiming for just behind the bigger icicles. The sock bombs are so much better than the hockey pucks in terms of placement; the downside is, in the spring we will have 19 filthy socks sitting on our roofs like dead things the cats might drag in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">to our bedroom</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Everyone, at this point, except those who have the great good fortune to live in a perfectly insulated home <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">David & Monique</span> has ice dams, ice cycles, and way too much snow on their roof. Roofs are collapsing all over New England, while I know of at least one poor man in Worcester who had a heart attack and died while clearing snow from his roof. Even stoic New Englanders are shaking their heads over this hard Wintah - though I still note latent pride beneath their complaints. This Wintah will go down in the record books in terms of snow fall if nothing else, and a legendary winter spawns legendary ...well... legends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Two days ago I dropped by the hardware store with the wild idea that they might have a snow rake or two I could drag back to The Fahm. The entry area was crowded with people gathered around a giant cart filled with boxes of hockey puck tabs, just in. One woman was juggling her toddler daughter, a shopping cart, two buckets of tabs, and a giant...wait...what is that? AN ELECTRIC SNOW SHOVEL? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I didn't <i>actually</i> use my elbows to force my way through the crowd and stake my claim on the last electric snow shovel in Worcester County but I may have put on a little of my Crazy Face, which works better anyway. I put my arm possessively around my new best shovel friend, two-stepped over to the salt cart, and using perfect restraint, took only one bucket. By this time there were fewer than ten buckets left when moments before there had been nearly forty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I arrived back at The Fahm just in time to find Raj in crisis mode dealing with a DAM LEAK in the kitchen. He was in the process of hooking up a hose to the hot water tab in the laundry room; by the time I had on the requisite layers for working outside, he had the hose out the kitchen window and was enveloped in steam, drilling a tunnel in the ice. I started out to join him but after stepping through the snow up to my thighs three or four times, I went back to the Coal Room, put on my snow shoes, and tried again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I took my turn making dam tunnels and other than alternately freezing and scalding my hands, it was actually kind of fun. We put four tunnels in, right through the largest icicles, and within minutes the leak stopped. We tossed salty pucks up, brought the hose in, mopped up the floor, and called it a day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today another storm is due, with the possibility of an additional 4 - 6" of snow on the ground before it passes through.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-17803516880796849272014-01-22T15:28:00.000-05:002014-01-22T17:29:58.603-05:00Serious Soy Chorizo Shortage at Trader Joe's Leaves Me Peevish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Official latest word on the status of Trader Joe's beloved SOYRIZO from Corporate HQ.<br />
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Thank you for your feedback. Our Trader Joe's Soyrizo is currently out of stock in our warehouse and assure you it has not been discontinued. At this time there is no exact date on when it will be available for our stores to order. We encourage you remain in contact with your local store's Captain or one of the Mate's for availability.</blockquote>
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Thank you for shopping at Trader Joe's,<br />
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TLDR: Trader Joe's soy chorizo is still MIA with no ETA.<br />
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I have been having a serious craving for soy chorizo from Trader Joe's, so much so that we made the 40 minute pilgrimage to the closest store, in Shrewsbury, MA.<br />
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The refrigerated tofu and fake meat section at Trader Joe's was filled with all manner of faux ground beef, "chicken" cutlets, sweet and sour "pork", Tofurkey, firm tofu, silken tofu, and seiten (SATAN!!). Not a speck of soy chorizo though, no matter how hard we looked or how many employees we asked, NOTHING.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-77242490045539563012014-01-20T17:13:00.000-05:002014-01-22T17:30:52.159-05:00Jason Brown Skates, Alright!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm sure there is a language for writing about figure skating although I don't know it; my only language to express skating is that of dance and music. I'm a music fan of Irish American ancestry, finding the Riverdance music particularly moving; I am culturally encoded to find the rhythms and expressions moving, sometimes enough so to bring tears to my eyes or me to my feet.<br />
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Jason Brown's performance at the recent U.S. Nationals held in Boston blended dance, music and skating with such breathtaking results that I find myself uncharacteristically at a loss for words. Indeed, his performance must be experienced to be understood.<br />
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No matter my previous awful schadenfreudeish <span style="font-size: xx-small;">new word</span> inclinations, this is one skater I want to see execute with<i>out</i> falling. The sheer joie de vivre of his performance deserves nothing less. Follow him on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonbskates" target="_blank">@jasonbskates</a> and stay tuned for his performance(s) in Sochi.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NotIrishAMERICANButDidUsJusticeNevertheless&src=hash" style="background-color: white; color: #0084b4; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66b5d2;">#</span>NotIrishAMERICANButDidUsJusticeNevertheless</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-55320003767866211412014-01-20T15:50:00.000-05:002014-01-20T17:41:40.464-05:00Refugees from The Island of Misfit Glass Bricks - Reprise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What is This, Boot Camp? Hell Week? It's easy to get confused, what with the twice a day workouts and all, getting snow and ice off the roof(s) before the next cold snap and/or snow surge. We've had a couple of days 'warm' enough for the ice icicles to start some serious melting, although we still ended up on a ladder just outside the kitchen window armed with a mini sledge hammer and protective eye-ware, literally beating back the ice.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I ordered a 20' long roof rake from the Internets which should arrive before the next storm; in the meantime, Our Dear Neighbor David loaned us theirs for the afternoon so Raj tackled the tall roof while I banged away at the kitchen. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We've had two leaks so far, both in the kitchen just over the back door, once briefly joined by a leak over the sink. We put out our buckets, put on our snow shoes, hats, gloves, and the rest of the thirty-nine layers required, then waddle around back for more de-icing. As the removal proceeds, the leaks get smaller and then stop entirely which is how we know we're hitting the appropriate spots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After a couple of days of relatively warm temperatures, the weather turned exceptionally cold (again) so everything froze (again), adding 'ice on walking surfaces' to the list of <i>Things to Love About New England Winter NOT </i>that I've been compiling. I have also begun an apprenticeship in Salt Sprinkling on Snow, a key skill for survival around here. Sprinkling salt on ice sounds just like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Rocks">Pop Rocks candy</a> which is a cheerful sound and I quite enjoyed my useful little chore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Since then, loud roars and thumps announce the downfall of even the largest of the Malevolent Beasties. Raj wants to drag them all into a circle and stand them up on end, thereby creating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_henge">Icehenge</a> here at The Fahm. Whether we do that or not, we have piles and stumps of pale blue-colored ice all over the place, looking like refugees from The Island of Misfit Glass Bricks.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-60395122999899624942014-01-10T21:10:00.000-05:002014-01-10T21:10:38.150-05:00A Fahm Guest Just Blew My Mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
...when she said, "Reading is an interior sport."</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-66940278121043019502014-01-10T16:15:00.000-05:002014-01-16T20:32:46.489-05:00What Beastie Left This Behind?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-32457667170200221282014-01-08T18:04:00.000-05:002014-01-08T18:11:38.834-05:00"Fahmtastic Story!" Notes from a New Reader<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Amazon.com Review by <a href="http://www.harryhart-browne.com/" target="_blank">Harry Hart-Browne</a>:</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Our-Year-The-Fahm-Blessed/product-reviews/1468150618/ref=sr_cr_hist_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1" target="_blank">Our Year at The Fahm: or, Blessed are the Cracked for They Shall Let in the Light (Paperback)</a><br />
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"What a delightful book! Sara Parker gives us an unvarnished tour of her new life with her tongue in her cheek and her heart on her sleeve. It reminded me a little of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Slept_Here" target="_blank"><i>George Washington Slept Here</i></a>" where city folk get countrified the hard way.</blockquote>
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Sara shares her woes and triumphs with such humor - both extra dry and fairily whimsical - that I become involved immediately, and stayed that way. A real page-turner. She treats language like a lovely lump of Play-Dough, sometimes creating words, phrases and names for inanimate objects that convey their essence far more effectively than conventional wordery can. (It's catching!) </blockquote>
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Although this true account is often a romp worthy of Lucy, it also ventures fearlessly to lonely places, human frailties, political insights, world woes, love of animals, as well as rampant mouse poo and homemade applesauce. It shows us how hard hard work can be, the shock of sudden crises, and helps us, by example, to go with the flow. It honors the beauty of Nature. It celebrates good people and laughs at the meanies. Like the official who railed against local beavers building dams without permits. No kidding. </blockquote>
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It connected with me on many levels. Sara's every response to her new life is informed by her big sensitive heart, which in turn warmed mine. My inner child smiles. Her subtitle suits her - she lets in the light. Recommended."</blockquote>
I am humbled. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-83568958122333495682014-01-08T07:00:00.000-05:002014-02-12T23:43:55.854-05:00Unattended Death Still Under Investigation ... is it ... MURDER?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In December of 2011, a mysterious death occurred right here in Princeton, not half a mile from the Town Center and the town has been abuzz since, mostly because no one who knew anything could say anything. Here are headlines with latest developments:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Roger P. Desilets Jr. was arraigned Jan. 2 in Worcester Superior Court on charges relating to the 2011 death of his wife at the couple’s home in Princeton. For more on the story, go to <a href="http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2014-01-09/Princeton_News/Desilets_pleads_not_guilty_in_death_of_wife.html" target="_blank">The Landmark</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">Roger Desilets was indicted yesterday, Friday, December 13, 2013, for manslaughter and assault and battery, nearly two years to the day since his wife died after going through a third story window of their Princeton, MA home. He will be arraigned January 2, 2014, in Worcester Superior Court.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">So...not murder exactly, but something very like it, no? Assault and battery and manslaughter sounds an awful lot like murder to me but of course I do not know the intricacies of the law well enough to distinguish between the two, although there are degrees of each, and the defendant's state of mind at the time of the crime is very important. For more on the indictment, see </span></span><a href="http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2013-12-12/Front_Page/Desilets_indicted_for_wifes_death.html" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">The Landmark's breaking news</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">PRINCETON — On the night of her death, Kathleen Desilets smashed out a third floor window in her Princeton home with a chair and then went through it, either intentionally or because of momentum, her husband, Roger Desilets, told police.<span style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That incident followed a night of arguments about his extramarital affair, according to court documents related to the case that were released last week. Media representatives sought release of the documents to shed light on the Dec. 6, 2011, death of Mrs. Desilets, 65, at the Desilets home at 20 Worcester Road. - <a href="http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2013-08-15/Front_Page/Desilets_went_through_window_husband_tells_police.html" target="_blank">The Landmark</a></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #222222; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px;">As an avid and regular reader of the <a href="http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2011-12-15/Fire_%28and%29_Police/Police_Notebook.html" target="_blank">Police Log (published by The Landmark)</a> I can attest that in the early morning hours of December 6th (</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">2:45 a.m.) an "assist medical" call for Worcester Road came in via an </span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">unidentified</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17.98611068725586px;"> caller; the police log has another entry, this one at 3:07 a.m., stating an investigation was undertaken with no further details.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #222222; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Rumors abound. There has been speculation in Jazzercise that the conflict wasn't about infidelity exactly, rather it is whispered that </span><i style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;">swinging</i><span style="color: #222222; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> was involved. It is widely known that there was a party on the evening of December 5, and that both the deceased and her husband were in attendance, along with other well-known town denizens; the rest of the guest list for that party is still a mystery. Princeton police are mum (as are other first responders) due to the fact that there is an ongoing investigation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.ouryearatthefahm.com/2013/08/speaking-of-dark-secrets-hidden-in.html" target="_blank">Who knows what dark secrets are hidden in the bosoms of this small New England town</a>??</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-54777007560837947032013-12-31T17:58:00.000-05:002013-12-31T17:58:21.628-05:00Better Days Ahead<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
2013 was not a good year for me. While not as horrific as 2011 (the year my Dad died), 2013 nevertheless sucked in its very own special way. Losing Tricksy in late November was a final, horrible capstone to a pretty awful year.<br />
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I fervently hope that 2014 is, if not better, than at least less painful than 2013.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-8439602402808221462013-12-20T15:16:00.000-05:002013-12-20T15:16:19.633-05:00In Anticipation of the Approaching Solstice, We Present Sun Man!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-48994200072888242222013-12-17T15:48:00.003-05:002013-12-17T15:48:53.483-05:00Winter Storm Falco<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We are longing for Solstice...our countdown began days ago. Soon...</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-34835840393279141232013-12-17T08:56:00.000-05:002013-12-17T08:56:01.286-05:00Zero, Zilch, Nada, Nothing, Nil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-10222507613196448792013-12-14T08:47:00.003-05:002013-12-14T08:48:39.204-05:00Waiting for Electra<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-30387027012882217162013-12-12T07:38:00.000-05:002013-12-12T07:38:31.902-05:00Winter is Coming <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
...rather, Winter is already here!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-27624252592065287592013-11-14T16:20:00.002-05:002013-11-14T18:19:08.755-05:00For Your Consideration, Qualified for Oscar® consideration for the 86th Academy Awards® Best Documentary Film, Valentino's Ghost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://valentinosghost.com/" target="_blank">Valentino's Ghost: The Politics Behind Images</a>, is the hard-edged film I hope you have already been hearing about. The film exposes ways in which the U.S. foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives and shapes the mainstream media's and Hollywood's portrayals of Arabs, Muslims, and Islam. It is not for the faint of heart. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb0Z_XErOgc" target="_blank">Click here to see the trailer</a>.<br />
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Designated a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/movies/valentinos-ghost-a-documentary-by-michael-singh.html?_r=2&" target="_blank">Critics' Pick by The New York Times</a>, called "brilliant" by @MJayRosenberg, and <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-05-15/film/tracing-america-s-relationship-to-the-middle-east-in-valentino-s-ghost/" target="_blank">"thrilling" by The Village Voice</a>, Valentino's Ghost received six figures of funding from PBS, which is showing only its truncated version due to controversies raised by the film.<br />
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<a href="http://valentinosghost.com/" target="_blank">Valentino's Ghost: The Politics Behind Images</a> has qualified for Oscar® consideration for the 86th Academy Awards®, and we are simultaneously trying to go wide with self-distribution, hence this post asking for your financial support toward the cost of spreading the word about this film, which I am proud to say I have had some small involvement in. The <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/get-valentino-s-ghost-into-theaters-and-on-tv-and-vod/x/1089196" target="_blank">IndieGoGo campaign site is here</a>.<br />
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Your support, no matter how small, would give this film the higher profile it needs in its dual mission for Oscar® consideration and self-distribution. No American distributor will touch it. Neither will any major American film festival, even though the Director of the world's oldest and most prestigious Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, said, "Valentino's Ghost is a great and very important film."<br />
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I hope you will conclude that the Valentino's Ghost project and predicament merit your support. You can view the trailer and see more reviews at <a href="http://www.valentinosghost.com/">www.valentinosghost.com</a>. Please help.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-67575602603007333522013-11-11T17:56:00.000-05:002013-11-11T19:04:07.644-05:00Fall Ends in New England<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-3801945240203210502013-11-11T17:45:00.000-05:002013-11-11T17:45:45.228-05:00Here We Go...FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS, IT COULD BE A BUMPY RIDE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<pre style="font-size: 14px; padding-left: 20px;">...SNOW SHOWERS WILL IMPACT THE TUESDAY MORNING COMMUTE...
A STRONG ARCTIC FRONT WILL QUICKLY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW
ENGLAND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. BEHIND THIS FRONT EXPECT RAIN
SHOWERS TO QUICKLY TRANSITION TO SNOW SHOWERS DUE TO FALLING
TEMPERATURES. THIS TRANSITION WILL OCCUR DURING THE MORNING
COMMUTE...BETWEEN 5AM TO 9AM. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SNOW SQUALLS IS
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-88301679856210531602013-11-07T19:52:00.000-05:002013-11-07T19:52:14.941-05:00Fall Sunset in New England<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149549565165994574.post-90473305206333114712013-11-02T15:46:00.001-04:002013-11-02T15:47:32.008-04:00This Flow Chart Will Make It Easy for You to Know Once and For All!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Via <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-searles/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-feminist_b_4185742.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a></td></tr>
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