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	<title>Rosendale Ramblings: snippets from the rural-ish life. By Sari Botton</title>
	<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com</link>
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		<title>Pizza tastes better than thin feels</title>
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Moving to Rosendale has had many positive effects on me. The one I&#8217;m noticing right now: it has adjusted my previously seriously warped sense of body image, for myself and other women. Now, on the occasions that I venture into the city, everyone looks anorexic to me. Well, not everyone, but many women.
We found ourselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=704</link>
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		<title>No nail clippers for you, either&#8230;</title>
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So, apparently violations of common courtesy and decency aren&#8217;t limited to noisy and stinky riders on the Aridondack Trailways line from Rosendale to NYC.
Jason Shelowitz, the artist brother of a friend of mine, has started this campaign on the New York City subways. Maybe we can get him to make some placards for our buses.
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		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=682</link>
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		<title>No neck pillow for you.</title>
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Dear operators of the Adirondack Trailways bus line between Port Authority and the mid-Hudson Valley:
I know you mean well. 
You take good care to have your drivers make that announcement at the beginning of each ride, the one listing the myriad ways in which riders should be considerate – not smoking or drinking, keeping their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=671</link>
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		<title>Let all the children boogie</title>
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In Patti Smith&#8217;s memoir about her symbiotic relationship with creative soulmate Robert Mappelthorpe, she writes about the adrenaline rush she experienced the first time she performed her poems and songs at the St. Marks Poetry Project. She found herself so overstimulated afterward, she couldn&#8217;t sleep.
I read that passage just yesterday, and here I am today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=638</link>
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		<title>Apples to apples</title>
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We got this much more snow today. At least in this one spot.
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		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=629</link>
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		<title>Counting the snowflakes</title>
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On days like today when it snows in the mid-Hudson Valley, friends and family from other areas want to know how many inches we got. We tend to get a lot more than people to the south of here.
I try to give an accurate answer, but it&#8217;s hard to say. Drifts will cause greater accumulations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=623</link>
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		<title>Law and Order, Criminal Intent: Rosendale edition</title>
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Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to forget here in idyllic, hippy-ish Rosendale that crime exists. Many of us, not mentioning any names, don&#8217;t even lock our doors and/or cars.
Every now and then, things happen nearby that threaten to awaken us to certain grim realities – although they don&#8217;t always sink in, probably because we don&#8217;t want them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=613</link>
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		<title>Breaking (gluten-free) bread with an old friend</title>
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Hello, readers. Happy 2010. I&#8217;m back &#8211; sorry for he hiatus. I was busy ghostwriting a memoir. I do that. It&#8217;s my bread and butter.
Speaking of which&#8230; This week, Jenifer Constantine, proprietrix of Market Market Cafe, was so kind as to bake a loaf of gluten-free bread for me to have my sandwiches on. Usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=601</link>
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		<title>Frozendale</title>
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Rosendale bills itself as &#8220;the Festival Town,&#8221; and with something like eight of them each year, it seems as if this might be truth in advertising. It probably tarnishes my image as a jaded New Yorker to admit this, but I am a sucker for each and every one. Sure, at root they&#8217;re just commercial, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=592</link>
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		<title>The 32 bridge is open</title>
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I just picked up Brian from the bus depot and to my surprise, after something like 19 months, the route 32 bridge over the Rondout is finally open. It was actually a little thrilling driving over it. Rosendalians &#8211; rejoice.
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		<link>http://weblog.saribotton.com/?p=588</link>
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