My tattoo

I thought some of you might like to see the tattoo I got for my 51st birthday. It wasn't as painful as I thought it would be and I absolutely LOVE the tattoo.

Police Blockade

I was out at Lily Dale over Labor Day weekend and I got shaken down in a couple of police blockades set up to catch Ralph Bucky Phillips. I have to tell you, I have never been so nervous in my life. I'd never seen a cop with a weapon drawn before...let alone one trained in my direction!

I left the Dale on Friday morning to go 8 miles up the road to Fredonia to do some shopping and I got stopped three times in police blockades. The first time, as I approached the blockade a trooper held his right hand up in a "STOP!" motion while making "come here" motions with the fingers of his left hand. ??? I was so confused! So I drove up slowly until I was next to him and then stopped and made a big do about reaching over S-L-O-W-L-Y to open my window. He told me to pop my trunk and when I did, he and another trooper (armed with a shotgun or rifle--I don't know what it was, I'm not a gun person) went back there and checked my trunk while a third trooper kept his rifle trained in my direction. I didn't so much as BLINK!

I was finally waved through the blockade and about two miles down the road, I had to go through an other...and two miles down the road from that, yet another! When I finally got to the store, I had to pop open my trunk to see what they were seeing because I don't use my trunk much...just cardboard boxes.

I called my friend Karen and told her that I had just gone through the road blocks because of Bucky and asked if she thought they'd have given me the reward if they found him in my trunk and she thought they'd more likely have arrested me as an accessory. (I am the eternal optimist!)

I'm glad they got him and no one else was shot or killed.

Oneida Community Mansion House

Oneida Community Mansion House

My son and I are paranormal investigators. Last weekend my family took a friend out to see the Oneida Community Mansion House and my son caught an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon--for more information on EVPs please see: AAEVP ) in the library of the Mansion House.

As we were walking through the room, my son asked, "Anybody here?" and a whisper responded, "Widow", or perhaps "Willow". [NOTE: If you click on the first audio link below, you hear my son ask, "Anybody here?" and our friend says, "They haven't found anybody yet." Then we laugh and there is some indistinguishable talking and then a voice quickly whispers what sounds to me like "Widow" or "Willow". In the second clip, I have edited out all the talking and isolated the whisper. It is much clearer on the actual tape. (Sorry.) You will have to use your BACK button to return to this page after you listen to each clip.]


Mansion House EVP

Mansion House EVP Isolated

For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, the Oneida Community was a religious commune during the mid-1800s comprised of a group marriage of 300 people--that is, all of the women were married to all of the men, and unlike many religions that sprung up at the time, instead of practicing abstinence, Community members were encourage to have sex with whichever of their 150 spouses they chose, as long as they didn't choose the same person too often because they didn't want people todevelop a "special love" for any one member.

Community members were encouraged to have sex with each other but were discouraged from sleeping together through the night because it was feared this would lead to them developing a special love for each other, so the Mansion House is ENORMOUS, as each member had his own bedroom. When the Community disbanded around 1880, the members all became shareholders in their silverware-making enterprise, Oneida Ltd.

For more information on the Community: http://www.oneidacommunity.org/