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  • Who won the cookies?

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    I won Amherst Bulletin columnist Phyllis Lehrer's annual postcard contest for having been the one whose card was sent from the farthest point from the place we don't pronounce the "h." My wonderful trip to Thailand this summer just keeps giving. Here I am [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:41pm EST
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Some Thanksgiving snapshots and the yarsagumba

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    This year we were joined by our three Nepalese friends, Bikram, Ganandra and Ramari, who told us some fascinating stories about their homeland, including about the yarsagumba, a combination caterpillar-fungus known as the "Himalayan Viagra," said to cure sciatica and other ailments.

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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:30pm EST
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Journalism class fun etc.

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    One of our most engaging guests ever came to journalism class yesterday -- Amherst Police Capt. Jennifer Gundersen. Students barraged her with questions and her answers were way more informative and sometimes entertaining than I expected them to be.
    "Great transparency," Julian, our Hampshire [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:40pm EST
    by Mary E.Carey

  • My favorite vegetable, the romanesco cauliflower, and the state of journalism etc.

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    Brian brought my favorite vegetable, the romanesco cauliflower (or broccoli, if you prefer) home from the Hampshire College farm, Tuesday. It was already dark, so I couldn't get a great photo of it. As I suspected, Hester was very interested. I still recall the first time' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:14am EST
    by Mary E.Carey

  • As I sit waiting for the penultimate episode of Mad Men, Season 3

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    I thought I'd post some pics. Full moon over the Norwottuck Rail trail late this afternoon.


    My beautiful sister Maureen and baby Evangeline, born Oct. 13 in a photo by my brother-in-law Marc.


    I love this photo by' [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 5:50pm EST
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Other people's adventures

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    This is my friend Ellie, 49, a world traveler I met on my teaching English as a foreign language course in Thailand, this summer. While I came home after the course ended and am now a volunteer ESL tutor through the Jones Library, many of my [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:37pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Creature Feature

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    Thought a bug and other creature post was in order, as a lot of my Facebook friends and UMass students have been receiving unwanted visits from these Asian ladybugs the past few days. They're known as Halloween bugs, according to About Amherst's entomologist, because this is [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Snapshots around town

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    Another beautiful day after a freezing cold weekend with snow. I got a video of Hester checking out the snowflakes --on Oct.16! I thought it was quite newsworthy at the time, but it turned out some of the neighboring towns at higher elevations got enough snow [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Evangeline

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    My sister Maureen had a baby early Tuesday morning outside Poughkeepsie in Rip Van Winkle country. I joined the family on Sunday, when she began having labor pains. Here she is at lunch on Sunday with son Matt and daughter Meghan.
    Meghan plays with [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:16am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Fantastic foliage etc

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    I'm still deeply involved in old "Mad Men" episodes, while outside the trees are breaking loose with the whole array of fall colors.


    Has anyone noticed, as Brian has, that the weather and the weather people's forecasts of it haven't been' [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Phyllis retires

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    Me, Judy Harris, the incomparable Phyllis Lehrer and Bonnie Wells at a gathering at the Amherst Bulletin office on University Drive in honor of Phyllis's retirement from the Bulletin and Daily Hampshire Gazette.Phyllis, who turns 69 this month, is a legend in Amherst, where she's been [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 7:50pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Snapshots of Amherst's 250th anniversary parade

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    My former co-worker Phyllis Lehrer who retires from the Daily Hampshire Gazette this week after some 30 years! Here she is representing Amherst's agricultural past and present.
    It wasn't the greatest weather for a parade, but it wasn't too bad either, although it seems the rain' [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 7:54pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Anthony!

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    Sacred Heart School's sixth grade class of 1969, Pittsfield.

    Amherst celebrates its 250th birthday with an-all-stops-pulled-out parade tomorrow, beginning at 1 p.m. in front of Amherst College. I'd be there, even if the Budweiser Clydesdale horses weren't part of the lineup. I've seen them racing [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 10:21am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Better than the previous post

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    University Drive corn, since cut down.
    I've gotten quite a lot of negative feedback about the last post on skin ailments. Sorry, but thanks for all your suggestions! My rash is less severe on the whole and I think and hope I can rule out scabies.' [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Itchy and strange

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    I'm sure this shot of me with some skin ailment will resonate with my brothers and sisters. We all grew up seeing grisly photos like this on the covers of medical magazines that my dad used to fall asleep every night reading at the kitchen table.' [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Painting the house: the long-in-coming update

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    Well! I see over a week has gone by and we're still painting the house. Thanks to Brian, who looks up everything online from consumer reports on paint to whether you paint the windows at the same time you paint the sills (No.), we're doing a [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 7:43pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Painting the house

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    We're really painting our house now after much deliberation about whether we could do it ourselves. Here's Brian working on the high parts. I've been working on the low parts since I'm afraid of heights.



    We live in a little Cape [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Ted Kennedy in the Valley

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    My sister-in-law's sister Alison Czelusniak posted this sweet photo on Facebook today of herself as a young girl with Ted Kennedy, marching in the Holyoke Saint Pat's parade, 1987. I have two photos of me and Kennedy that are among my most treasured material possessions.
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Your place for ideas about what to do with visitors to Amherst

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    Farm implement-crab at the Hampshire College farm.Last week. I reported on some fun places to bring visiting kids. This week, Brian and I got a chance to show off our tour guide skills as his brother David and wife Marion were in town. David prepped our [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 3:51pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Amherst poets etc.

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    Figuring it was time to take some more pictures around Amherst, I checked out Emily Dickinson's garden, which I believe the curators have planted with what the Dickinsons themselves had in their garden. I see the Dickinsons and/or the curators favor(ed) the low-maintenance garden solution phlox.
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 12:56pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Movie review: "Julie and Julia" and what's coming to Amherst Cinema

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    "Julie and Julia" blogger Julie Powell photographed by Ken Lambert of the Seattle Times, as posted on her blog.
    It was a packed house on a Monday night at Cinemark for "Julie and Julia" about Julia Child and Julie Powell who blogged about cooking all [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 1:22pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Hello, dog days

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    The latest installment of the Swiss exercise ball series. Now we are using it as a large soccer ball.
    The weather since I've been back has certainly earned the description "dog days," derived, I recently learned, from ancient myth. As explained at the first' [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 7:20pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Back in Amherst

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    About Amherst's CEO and resident entomologist are back from their Thailand adventure. Next, the entomologist gets a colonoscopy, we paint the house and facing a soon-to-be-empty nest, I continue to look for employment. I got diverted today filling out the above map with cities I've visited [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 5:45am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Scenes from Bangkok

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    Since the shrines and spirit houses of Thailand have been a source of fascination to me, I thought I'd begin my post on my last day here with this pic of a stall we passed by where you can buy some of the materials you would' [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Greetings from Bangkok

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    Miniature figures in a Bangkok shrine -- or is it a "spirit house"?
    Mmmm, sea slugs in a tank outside a Korean restaurant.
    Children's swine flu masks for sale. You see a significant number of people' [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Wish you were here.

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    A person could have a whole blog just on the shrines of Thailand. Someone probably does! This is a detail from one of several outstanding shrines at a hotel we stayed at Saturday night.


    This is where we enjoyed the eucalyptus sauna [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2009, 7:05am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Week 3: Over

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    Whew, we've completed 3 of 4 weeks of the intensive course called CELTA for Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults. It's a Cambridge University production and super-strict. Here we're watching a video of someone in London teaching a class like the ones we teach. We' [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 5:41am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Beach weekend, the sequel

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    Beach weekend, take two. It was sunny as can be this time and I have the sunburn to prove it. Well, only the parts I missed with my 70SPF lotion. Two friendly dogs slept under Ellie's and my chairs most of the time we were there.
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 4:55am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Fun with phonemes etc.

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    Hello again! We've been super busy learning the methodology of teaching meaning, pronunciation and grammar and making it all stimulating and "learner-centered." That's a phoneme, above, one of the sounds in the English language I've been trying to memorize. It sounds like "0w" as in "owl."

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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 7:25am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • My so-called beach weekend

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    Naihan Beach in South Phuket, an island in southern Thailand. I and three other women taking the course set out this weekend with the idea of spending it on the beach. Instead, it rained so hard it may have been a typhoon, according to my classmates [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 4:29am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • People I've met; creatures I've seen

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    Me and two of our students, Aew (left) and Vieu. I've completed the first of four weeks of intensive teacher-training and I and my fellow students seem to be hanging in there admirably, although yesterday our instructor told us we all had glazed looks and should' [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 7:27am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Some shrines and characters of Thailand

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    Abandoned miniature roadshine shrine. You can't go far without seeing a shrine in Thailand, or at least Phuket, where my course in teaching English as a foreign language is being held.


    I encountered this heap of abandoned shrines along my new, short' [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 8:23am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • I can blog, I can blog, I can blog.

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    Rosie, 22, eating watermelon, pineapple and dragon fruit. Internet service is spotty here and I haven't been able to figure out how to post to AboutAmherst to my unending chagrin. Since the service could be interrupted at any moment, I wanted to be sure the' [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 2:21am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • I visit Seoul

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    Jamie, our tour guide (in pink) leads us around Gyeonbokgung palace in Seoul. Well, it's almost hour 14 of my 15-hour layover in Korea. I didn't get to the spa but I took a fun 5-hour tour of Seoul and then I had a free shower in' [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2009, 4:02am EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Greetings from Incheon International Airport outside Seoul

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    The airport is living up to its billing as travelers' Number 1 choice, although not much was open when we arrived at 3 a.m. I tried to take a little rest on one of these recliners but the sight of someone enjoying the free wireless' [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 4:14pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Korean spa, here I come

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    Wunderarts gallery on Main Street is having an "Out of Sight" exhibit of "accessible" abstract art.

    I'm off to Thailand in a couple of days. I was chagrined at first to read my itinerary carefully for the first time and discover I would have a' [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 1:55pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • We have a winner (plus a movie review)

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    Julie, of Amherst, has won AboutAmherst's Tell-Me-What-This-Flower-That-Showed-Up-In-the-Garden contest. The flower in question is a musk mallow. "I just plugged 'perennial pink flower five petals' into Google, and the Musk Mallow article popped up eighth on the list," Julie writes.
    Brilliant! Her 8"x 11" print [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 4:19pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • The (flower) mystery deepens

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    I was going to award the About Amherst prize for identifying the plant in my garden as a wild pink geranium. But comparing the flowers to wild pink geranium photos online, I'm not so sure. They look so much like something I would have deliberately planted.' [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 5:07pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Water, water everywhere - -and it's all too cold to swim in

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    Just a quick note while we're waiting at the Seattle airport to board the plane to Boston. There is just minutes, but Brian challenged me to post. (CNN is reporting about the latest governor to have cheated on his wife, having claimed he was hiking the' [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 4:17pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Fun in Seattle

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    We visit the top of the Space Needle, built for the 1962 World's Fair. It's quite a polished operation, with a high-end, revolving restaurant on top. A tour guide on the elevator up told us it takes the same amount of energy to rotate the [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 9:47pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Greetings from Seattle!

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    We're in Seattle, the 24th largest city in the country, on our way to visit Brian's friends in Bellingham about an hour and a half up the coast.

    We're staying at the Edgewater Hotel, which literally hangs over Puget Sound. This cruise [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 1:13pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Interview with "Enlighten Up!" star's mom, Jewell Rosen

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    Talked with Jewell Rosen, today, the mother of Nick Rosen, protagonist of the yoga documentary "Enlighten Up!" that begins showing at Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton Friday.
    I enthusiastically recommend it.
    The elder Rosen, who is seen briefly in the film is a shamanic [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 1:42pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Contest etc.

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    ********Sir or Madame, You have won a PRIZE, PRIZE, PRIZE******* Kindly tell me what this tall something (on left) that's been growing in my garden is. I don't know whether it's a weed or not. Could it be the same thing as this pretty blue flower' [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 4:41pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • I love a parade, Hadley's 350th Anniversary Parade

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    Brian and I rode our bikes to our neighboring town Hadley's 350th parade. Amherst declared its independence from Hadley, so to speak, 100 years ago, so we're celebrating an anniversary too. I'm thinking of marching in our parade on Sept. 27. I just need a contingent.

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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 6:02pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • My review of the documentary "Enlighten Up."

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    Hillary, the manager of Amherst Cinema, tells me that the very likeable protagonist of this fun documentary about yoga grew up around here and that his mom, who appears in it, still lives nearby. I may interview her for a subsequent post. In the meantime, I recommend "Enlighten Up!" [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 1:25pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Tom Sawyer summer

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    Hester, briefly stuck in a tree earlier this week.


    Not having a job is keeping me so busy! I've learned there's a new Hester line of clothing, with a "future-vintage" concept. Love it!


    Noticed this kitty for [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • My "Star Trek" review

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    "Star Trek," directed by J.J. Abrams; starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Eric Bana. Rated PG-13. At Cinemark in Hadley at11 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:40 and 10:35 p.m. and Greenfield Garden at 6:45 and 9:15 p.m. Recommended.


    I watched re-runs of the entire original "Star" [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Ants and a newt (not Gingrich)

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    Patty, of Amherst, sent these two bug questions to About Amherst's entomologist:
    Number 1: We always get an influx of ants -- mostly black ants -- in the house as soon as warm weather arrives. Where are they during the winter? Do the adult ants go' [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 12:40pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Scenes from the bike trail

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    My brother Ed in his Star Trek shirt about 30 years ago. Mike's not wearing his. I'm still thinking about "Star Trek," before writing a review. It took me back to when the six of us kids would crowd in the living room and watch the [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey

  • Movie Revie: "Drag Me to Hell"

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    On Saturday, I saw "Drag Me to Hell" with a certain person who shall remain nameless, and then I went back to Cinemark and saw "Star Trek" with Brian. Here's my first of two reviews -- of "Drag Me to Hell," a mostly fun horror movie.
    "Drag Me to'" [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 3:25pm EDT
    by Mary E.Carey
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