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Continue reading →: On Age and Divesting of Stuff-Written by Chris Chiller “Things” are in the saddle and ride mankind — Ralph Waldo Emerson Six years ago, my family agreed that it was time to leave the state where we had lived together for sixteen years. We are a blended family, and all that we had gathered constituted…
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Continue reading →: Facts of the Fiction: Atlantic Salmon in MaineBy Chris Chiller Unless you are an avid angler, you might find stories about fish a bit off-putting but this is the story of a murder of a particular fish and the battle to keep their cousins viable. But let’s start at the beginning of the discovery of the Northeast. …
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Continue reading →: So Many Things to Fear—So Little TimeSo Many Things to Fear—So Little Time by Chris Chiller AJ Alanson’s newest Admiral Inn Mysteries book, A Ghost in the Tide, contains a central plotline confronting one of humanity’s worst fears. Innkeeper June Faust finds the body of a young woman in her carriage house. The woman was obviously…
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Continue reading →: NEW ARRIVAL!by Chris Chiller AJ’s latest book is finally out. Start the series or catch up on Amazon. Dive into the mystery today—the tide waits for no one…
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Continue reading →: Fact of Fiction: From Gypsies to Hippies: How Travelers are Kept MovingWritten and researched by Chris Chiller About a thousand years ago, an ethnic group left northwestern India, moving west. These were people who maintained a tight community, clinging to their language and customs. Using borrowed words related to horses and commerce as clues and historical records, it seems likely that…
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Continue reading →: On Almost AdultsOn Almost Adults – by Chris Chiller On Wednesday, we dropped our daughter off for an overnight freshman orientation. She was one of several hundred incoming 17 and 18-year-olds. They were housed in a dormitory with a circular drive near the entrance. We stopped behind three other cars, and all…
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Continue reading →: Facts of Fiction: Rum Runners of MaineBy Chris Chiller Part 3 of Pirates, Smugglers, and Rum-Runners. In previous installments of Fact of Fiction we reviewed pirates and smugglers in Maine from Colonial times up to early US restrictions on trade with Great Britain which led to coastal Maine becoming a center of illicit trade for all…
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Continue reading →: Fact of Fiction: Smugglers of MainePart 2 of Pirates, Smugglers, and Rum-Runners Written by Chris Chiller Without offering too much of a spoiler, a historic smuggling operation is central to a subplot that twines through several books in the Admiral Inn Mysteries series. This is only as interesting as it is plausible. If there were…
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Continue reading →: Facts of Fiction: Those Dastardly PiratesPart 1 of Pirates, Smugglers, and Rum-Runners Written by Chris Chiller It must be admitted at the outset that Maine, with its snowy winters and no history of Spanish gold and silver transport, was not nearly so attractive to pirates as the Caribbean. There was no Jamaica’s Port Royal, “The…
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I’m Chris Chiller
I’m retired and pursuing understanding in all manner of puzzling things. My first posts will examine the structure of Society in the US. I propose to look for the non-political reasons for the divisions and behaviors by citing research in psychology, neurology and genetics. I will always attribute ideas to the authors and cite the published sources. Inevitably I will salt in some of my own thoughts on things. This is, after all, A Well Seasoned Story.
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