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Chocolate Fountains - Who's used one?
I am planning a chocolate fountain for my DD sweet sixteen birthday party 10/29. Any one out there ever used one? What things did you put out to dip, did it clog and how did your guests like it??? Thanks!
Be sure that you have completely melted the chocolate before putting it in the fountain so it won't clog.
You also must have in on a level table or it won't flow properly.
The little kids liked it better then the adults and teens. It may have been because the big kids saw the little kids put their fingers right in the fountain. The worse in 'double dipping'. :)
I'll never do one again. They waste alot of chocolate, are not easy to clean and the whole process in messy.
My friend has one and she used it once and said never again. She said it's not worth the cleanup plus she threw alot of chocolate away. It sounds like one of those items that we use a couple of times and then it ends up sitting on the shelf gathering dust.
EWW!!..Not for me...too much fingers hands and as has been said double dipping.
I went to a very nice catered dinner in an airconditioned tent last summer...with a chocolate fountain for dessert. No kids present. There were a couple of flies in the tent and I was hoping one or more didn't land in the chocolate and get "circulated"..I dropped my banana chunk into the tank, I hope it didn't clog it up. And I spilled chocolate on my blouse...and had to spend the rest of the fancy even with a big chocolate smear on my front!
16 year old girls would likely love it...I don't care for them...I like a rich dark chocolate and all the chocolate I have seen in the fountains are light milk chocolate.
But...that aside for teenagers...who likely are really into junk food and are also adult enough not to dip their grubby fingers into the chocolate....go for it!
Things to dip? banana chunks, strawberries, pineapple bits, angel food cake, marshmallows....and I might add cup up twinkies, marischino cherries with the stem and how about pretzel sticks?
Linda C
I was going to supply wooden skewers for fruit. Not too appealing idea of fingers stuck into the fountain or double dipping:) My instructions say can use cheese or any kind of chocolate, dark, light, white. I think it just has to be thoroughly heated. I am rethinking maybe only offering pretzel rods and long stemmed large strawberries? Mostly adults partaking....
Be sure to warn all the guests ahead of time of your plans so they can dress accordingly. And I'd be sure to have it in an area where your best furniture/rugs won't be in the 'line of fire'. Dripping chocolate can make some really difficult stains.
I know they're a really trendy, popular idea these days, but to be honest, if I attended a party and saw one of those things, I'd stay as far away as possible--just too messy for me.
Does it spray chocolate? The one I purchased is a small Wilton model. I think I better give it a dry run. Thanks all for your input. I hope I don't have to abandon the thing since I already promised, but I am getting the impression that they are a complete mess.
I just catered a wedding with two chocolate fountains...a milk chocolate and a white chocolate. It went really well. I'm not sure why clean up has been difficult for the others. The fountains I've worked with have cleaned up very easily. Definitely provide skewers and instructions (can print them and put them in a nice frame sitting next to the fountain). My main advice is to use high-quality fondue chocolate. The chocolate you get at the craft store for making chocolates does not work. I used Sephra brand for the most recent wedding. Melt it in the microwave first, then pour into the fountain.
As for dipping items, I've served marshmallows, pretzel rods, pound cake chunks, maraschino cherries, chunked pineapple, grapes, strawberries, graham crackers, etc.
I do agree with the others that fountains aren't good ideas if there are a lot of small children present. However, any problems can be remedied by including "Children must be supervised by an adult" to the instruction frame.
Good luck!
Where can I buy the fountain quality chocolate? I don't remember ever seeing that brand at the grocery. Also, what about the craft chocolate is a problem- too thin?? Woman at the store where I bought fountain assured me that the craft chocolate was okay. The instructions say if you are not using belgium chocolate you have to add vegetable oil? Thanks.
If you buy fondue chocolate, you do not have to add oil. I didn't like the craft chocolate for a few reasons. I didn't think the flavor was that great and it didn't flow smoothly, regardless of what we did. No amount of oil made it flow smoothly. I was unimpressed with it. The fondue chocolate was beautifully smooth, had fabulous flavor (and was available in dark chocolate, BTW). I got it at a local confections/candy store, NOT the grocery. Grocery stores usually don't sell it at this quality. You may need to order it online. It is formulated to flow smoothly through the fountain, making it better than the craft chocolate. I'm including a link to where you can purchase this particular brand, but you could probably find other fondue-quality chocolates, also. The price may be steep if you were considering using the craft chocolates, but in my opinion, it's worth it.
Hope that helps!
Here is a link that might be useful: Sephra Chocolate website
Don't let everyone scare you off. It will be a fun treat for your daughter's special day - if perhaps, not something you will be pulling out every week for book club or a card party or whatever - but a Sweet 16 is worth a little fuss.
Definitely offer skewers. Possibly have a few pre-stabbed pieces of fruit or whatever so people get the idea. Have plates or napkins near by. Dipping the fruit isn't the dangerous part - it's getting the fruit from the fountain to your mouth. Works better with a pit stop on a plate while you go sit down.
We all have high risk party foods. My Dad can't have gravy without bringing some home on his necktie. I get in trouble with linguine or fettucini. Some people can't attempt chocolate fountain and won't partake, but the others will think it is fun.
Anything firm enough for fondue would be delicious dipped in chocolate. (Frankly, I think my shoe would be delicious dipped in chocolate)
If shoes are not available, strawberries, pineapple or any other berries or fruit slices that won't brown on a buffet. Pound cake, angel food cake, marshmallows, graham crackers, pretzels...would all be good.
Presently I have visions of a nutter butter dipped in chocolate dancing in my head, but the things listed above probably have broader appeal. (mmmm...nutter butters...)
Here is a link that might be useful: craftfetish blog
okieladybug - tried to get the Sephra chocolate but it was $30 shipping fee since I need it for Friday. However, the girl was nice and told me that some stores carry it, Williams Sonoma, Sur La Table, BJ's Wholesale. Unfortunately, WS is out of stock. They do have fondue chocolate tho, but the girl at WS said that when they used the fountain which was a Sephra fountain, they had to add oil to the chocolate when they ran it from time to time since it got thick at times. I am still checking on the other stores. I am wondering if anyone has used the craft chocolate and if so, how did it go with adding the oil since that will be my only option if I cannot find the Sephra in stock.
It's probably too late, but I *have* used the craft chocolate, thus my opinion. We used it for a wedding in April and it was a disaster. Absolutely disgusting mess! You had to add far too much oil to make it suitable for flowing which made it completely unappetizing, if you ask me.
I'm sorry you couldn't find the Sephra brand...it was wonderful. Did you check small shops in your area? I live in a small town and our local candy store had it, which was surprising to me. We also have an entertaining shop (they sell high-quality cheeses, crackers, specialty dishes, etc.) and I think they would probably have it or be able to order it. Is there anything like that in your area?
I agree completely with craftfetish: a sweet 16 is a special event and I think it would be worth any extra work to have something that special available for your daughter.
Good luck!!!
I went to Williams Sonoma and got their fondue chips bittersweet. The guy there was a former party planner who has used the Sephra fountain with the Sephra chocolate and still had to add oil. I am using 1 part WS chips to equal part craft milk chocolate. Although I love dark chocolate and would do it for a different party, my daughter is a milk chocolate person so I want it to be as much like milk as possible. Apparently, the Sephra chocolate is only carried around the holidays, Christmas and Valentines (according to WS rep). I have called all the candy shops and other places I can think of in my area to no avail. I am just going to go for it. Wish me luck!
Well, how did it go? I'm hoping it worked out for you. Did your daughter enjoy her party? I used the Sephra chocolates with the Sephra fountain and did not have to add oil, but I suppose each person is different in what they're looking for. I was looking for fondue chocolate consistency, not chocolate syrup. ;)
All went well. I was very nervous about getting it going in the kitchen and moving it into the dining room. It was so easy, no problems whatsoever. I used double the chocolate called for just the amount of oil for one batch. It was a nice consistency. Coated well. Had two young kids who had experienced a fountain before and they were great. Everyone used their plates and didn't have a whole lot of chocolate left over. DD cleaned the fountain and said not that bad. All in all I was more worried than I should have been. Not one person had chocolate on their clothing. It was a great idea and I plan on using it again where it can be more the focal point. I had alot of food and a cake since it was a birthday. I would enjoy using it with all kinds of fruit, biscotti, cut up pound cake. LOVED IT.
I have been following this thread because I am a chocoholic and really like the idea of these fountains. I have resisted buying one because I was afraid that it wouldnt really work. Now I see that the price is going down, but wonder what brand fountain you all have used that works well. I have seen "Nostalgia" and "Wilton" brands in stores for $20 - $30. Macy's has some other brand for around $50. It seems to me that they all look alike, as does the Sephra brand that I have seen only on the internet. So are the higher priced models better and what brand do you recommend? Thanks
The one I purchased was on sale for about $40.
The Sephra is about $175 on the Williams Sonoma website.
think the benefit of the Sephra or one similar is that you can actually melt the chocolate in the bottom of the fountain. The one I purchased you have to melt the chocolate in the microwave then transfer it to the fountain leaving some lag time between stirring out of the microwave and getting chocolate into the bowl of the fountain. The recipe called for a 24 oz of chocolate to 3/4 c. oil. I used double the chocolate and about 2/3 c. oil to get the consistency I wanted. I didn't want it oily, but you have to get to a consistency where it will flow over the fountain properly or there's no point in having a fountain, you might as well do fondue.
I have actually considered upgrading to the Sephra or something similar since I like the chocolate fountain, we had a good experience and I would definitely use it again for entertaining. I would like to just melt the chocolate in the machine it is going to end up in rather than the microwave. That to me was the only down side. Other than that, if you don't mind melting then transferring, buy the cheaper version.
I don't think its something I would use very often, but I do intend to use it again - probably plan a party around the fountain, or someone in the family might like to use it for a party also and I had a cheapie. All in all it was good for what we were using it for. If you were doing a large party you definitely need a larger size than we had. The Sephra is larger.
Also, my model says I can do cheese, Williams Sonoma party planner told me even with the Sephra, he had no luck with cheese, just something to know before you buy.
labmomma, thanks for the info. I'm going to seriously look into to getting one. I don't think I can justify spending $175 because I probably won't use it that much, so I guess I'll be heating chocolate in the microwave. What brand is the one that you have?
I thought it was a Wilton but when I got it out of the box it says Nostalgia on the actual fountain. It was in the Kohl's circular 40% as a Wilton model, but I don't see anything saying Wilton on the actual machine.
I would say if you're not opposed to heating in the microwave, buy one like I have. I have since learned of a couple of friends who have them and they have the same idea. Small, melt the chocolate in the microwave.
It is more convenient if you can melt it in the actual fountain, but you are definitely paying 3x as much.
As for the chocolate I have to respectfully disagree about the craft chocolate. I used 1/2 craft, 1/2 Williams Sonoma fondue chips and it was delicious. I did have to use twice the amount of recommended chocolate to come up to close the rim of the bowl of the fountain which is recommended and the fountain didn't work properly until I added more chocolate, it didn't flow right, spaces where there was no chocolate flowing if you know what I mean. I would think if the craft chocolates were that bad, I wouldn't have gotten as good of a result. I will say that if I were doing a party focusing on the fountain I would use dark chocolate for all adults. Williams-Sonoma chips were $14 a pound and I used 2 pounds of W/S and 2 pounds of milk chocolate craft.
Post if you buy one and use it.
I think the above posts probably avoided some problems for me. I set it up on a glass topped tea cart. I had plenty of plates. We talked to the two youngest kids about using the plate plus they had a fountain at a wedding they participated in as attendants. No chocolate on clothing. I bought the W/S extra long skewers. Make sure your fruit is dry. I cleaned the strawberries in the morning and sat them on paper towels, changing them 2x in order to get them dry and to let them come to room temperature for serving. I think if your guests have never experienced a fountain you do have to let them know that the chocolate takes a minute to set up, thus holding it over a plate or napkin - don't try and eat it the second you pull it out of the fountain.
I am actually going to try the cheese despite the bad experience of the guy at W/S. We occasionally have cheese and fruit for dinner as a treat with a good bottle of wine. I think I might give it a whirl some Sunday afternoon when the game is on. Sounds kind of crazy tho. Football game with a cheese fountain:-,) That I definitely would do a dry run on before I spring on a group of friends...
Thanks, Labmomma
I have seen a small nostalgia brand at CVS and a couple of other places for $20. I think I will pick one up and give it a try. As for the chocolate, I thought I saw on the box that you could use bags of chocolate chips. I assumed they were refering to the supermarket nestles or hersheys. BTW - dark is my favorite too.
Yep, the instructions that my fountain recommended 24 oz of bag semi sweet chocolates. What area of the country are you in? I paid I think $40 on sale at Kohls supposedly 40% off... Geez.
I also heard from a friend who has used the Nestle chocolate chips that they worked just fine. Another tip from the chocolate store I called for Sephra - they use coconut or palm oil when they make things. I really at this early hour can't remember why, but I guess it makes it set up faster, which would be a good thing with the fountain dipping.
Have fun.
I just joined and was reading the postings on chocolate fountains to get some ideas for things to "dip". My son is 18 today and I'll have about 30 - 40 teenagers invading my house tonight for the party.
I've used my chocolate fountain several times for smaller gatherings and have never had any problems with it.
I just had to let you all know that I bought mine on QVC a couple of years ago and it runs beautifully. I think I paid about $40 plus shipping. It cleans up very easily.
Happy Holidays!
Well I'm thinking on buying a fountain at least 3 tiers. I was looking at Sephra but it's expensive. I saw Nostalgia and Wilton, I wanna make sure I'll by something good that won't break too soon. Wich one do you recomend but thinking at a good price ($40 or $50).
Hi all
I was just about to come and post this question myself. I have used a fondue pot before for chocolate but thought I would give a fountain a try.
Anyone got a list of fixings. :)
I was thinking:
rice krispie treats
pretzel sticks
vanilla wafers
peanut butter cookies
pound cake
angel food cake
puff pastries filled with various creams


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IrishinLA commented on December 4th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
When will we know who they pick? That sounds awesome.
bleednd82 commented on December 4th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I am pulling to play Rice. I feel more "confident" vs. Rice than BSU. Sad but true.
JC commented on December 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Now that CW has received ND's golden affirmation to a lackluster .500 or less season (pending bowl outcome). It is now embarrassingly obvious, some ND fans are hopeful for a bowl opponent that allows for a fashionable win to end this torturing season. This just further demonstrates how the white flags have been thrown out on the field by many people.
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A Fan commented on December 4th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Would you want ND to play BSU in Boise either?
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Well, as Charlie stated:
"It's practice for our younger players."
It was unclear whether winning was part of the equation.
In the legendary winning days, a .500 record, you stayed home and it was endorsed by the university.
Today, sub par football is the new benchmark. So, flip a coin.
T. commented on December 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Ball State allows a lot of points per game. The best team they beat was navy. ND would probably dominate 3 quarters and lose by 10.
JC commented on December 5th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I agree Frankie, if we have to go bowling lets make it a real "practice" against a REAL RANKED Ball State team!
If we are looking for just a boring wimpy status win, might as well play Rice or Penn High School if we are not up for the BSU challenge.
JC commented on December 5th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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Another Interesting article.
Diane H commented on December 7th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
If Boise State wants to play BSU so bad, let them travel to Muncie Indiana and see how many fans will travel that distance.
As for ND,my family has spent alot of time and money to see a very sad season in South Bend.
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Continuing its strong solar progress, North Carolina installed 95 megawatts (MW) of solar PV in Q3, more than all the solar installed in the state in 2010 and 2011 combined and enough to rank the state 3rd nationwide for added capacity, according to the new quarterly report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The Solar Market Insight Report found Q3 2014 represented a 172 percent increase over the previous quarter for North Carolina.
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New Report Shows Residential Solar in Colorado Up 30%
Demonstrating continued support for clean, renewable energy, residential solar installations in Colorado in Q3 were up more than 30 percent over the same period last year, according to the new quarterly report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).
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In another step forward for clean, renewable solar energy, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved raising the net energy metering (NEM) cap from 3 percent to 6 percent for all utilities. At the same meeting, the PSC announced plans to advance Community Shared Renewables, an innovative concept that could enable renters and millions of other New York energy consumers to go solar for the first time.
SEIA Says EPA's Clean Power Plan Will Benefit Nation
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United States Installs 1,354 MW of Solar in Q3 2014
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SEIA Applauds University's Decision to Expand Use of Solar
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PUBLISHED: 27 Feb 2014 11:57:00 | UPDATED: 28 Feb 2014 07:51:56PUBLISHED: 27 Feb 2014 PRINT EDITION: 28 Feb 2014Kevin Russell has resigned from Optus and will leave the telecommunications company at the end of March. Photo: Rob Homer
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Analysts say Optus is stuck in no man's land between Telstra and Vodafone, and whoever is Kevin Russell's replacement as chief executive will face the tough task of telling consumers what the company stands for.
Optus announced Mr Russell's departure on Thursday. Former chief executive Paul O'Sullivan, who is group consumer chief executive of parent company SingTel, will act as an interim head for Optus until a replacement for Mr Russell is found.
Optus underwent a significant rebrand and restructure of its sales strategy last year in a bid to make the business more profitable. It has significantly cut costs, taken control of many of its physical franchises and shed broadband and mobile customers held to be no longer lucrative.
In looking for somebody to take the top job, Optus and SingTel will have to mull over whether they want to invest more cash in the business, or stay put.
"Do they want someone to manage the shop and keep it nice and steady, and just maintain their market share and not rock the boat too much? Or do they want someone to go in there and really put a rocket up the company?" Informa senior analyst Tony Brown said. "Do they want somebody who gets the company going again, really hard on the heels of Telstra?
"Because at the moment, they're not really doing that. Telstra are pretty comfortable in the mobile and fixed space."
Focus on customer retention
Last year, Mr Russell said the company was focused on retaining its most valuable customers and increasing data revenues. As a result, it reported a reduction in the company's mobile customer base from 9.56 million to 9.43 million during 2013.
Reporting its December quarter results in February, mobile revenue fell to $1.4 billion, down from $1.5 billion in the previous corresponding period. Despite this, Optus's results, contained in the accounts of SingTel, showed a 41.4 per cent rise in year-on-year profit, to $227 million.
However, announcing SingTel's third-quarter results earlier this month, Mr Russell told analysts that following the restructure, the company planned to aggressively market for new customers again in 2014: "We're now entering a phase where we are very much focused . . . on starting to regain market share from a strong base," he said.
Mr Russell's replacement also has the task of directing a potential renegotiation of SingTel-Optus's $800 million deal with NBN Co to transition its cable broadband customers to the national broadband network. NBN Co is now seeking access to Optus's cable network as part of the $41 billion build, a move that could see Optus reach a more lucrative deal.
Departing on good terms
Mr Russell leaves at the end of March, and it is understood he will stay in Australia.
After he spent less than two years in the role as CEO, Optus said Mr Russell was departing on good terms and of his own accord.
''Several months ago Kevin told me that he wished to move on to other challenges on completion of this phase, after ensuring an orderly transition that embeds the strategic transformation he has led,'' Mr O'Sullivan said.
''I wish Kevin all success for the future and thank him for his significant contribution over the past two years.''
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Towelling for grass, cotton balls for smoke and cling film for water – Wes Anderson has reverted to traditional forms of animation in his new film Fantastic Mr Fox.
I've spoken a lot about the future of 3D animation on this blog, but I'd like to highlight a great piece of stop-motion animation in Wes Anderson's take on Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox – starring George Clooney, Bill Murray and Meryl Streep.
In a recent interview, director Anderson discusses the effort he went to, relying on old techniques, and it really pays off. The animation was created here in London, where he steered clear of digital animation and used material to create effects - like towelling for grass, cotton balls for smoke and cling film for water where possible. I must say, while I'm one of the first to sing the praises of developments in film creation like advances in 3D cinema – it's great to see a picture going back to basics and producing fantastic results.
The movie does look adorable and I agree with the opinion expressed on thepeoplesmovies's blog that it was a bold move for a director to create animation in classic stop-motion style in the days of computer generated effects – however, it's bound to be a hit. On top of the great production, the film boasts an impressive voice cast that is sure to be a pull with the audience.
There are very few other companies who are embracing stop-motion animation. Aardman is another company which is still producing that quirky old-school feel when generating animations.
If you haven't seen it yet check out the Fantastic Mr Fox trailer on our YouTube channel. What do you think? Is there still a place for old-school animation in today's film industry?


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The 2014 ESPY Awards were live for the first time on July 16 from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California, and all the hottest names in sports were there. While we were probably most excited about Drake hosting, the night is really about the most talented athletes taking home the biggest award of the year. Read the whole winners list here!
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"We have a report of 25 horses sickened from eating alfalfa hay from Michigan that contained this plant," says Irvin. "The horses had swollen legs, fever, and some were showing signs of foundering. What is especially troubling is that the weed was practically invisible in the hay. It was only after close investigation after the horses got sick that the presence of this plant was found."
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Evaluated psychosocial characteristics of inner-city ninth graders exceeding a cutoff for clinically significant delinquent behaviors (n = 27), as compared to youth whose self-reported delinquent behaviors fell below this cutoff (n = 136). Youth reporting high levels of delinquent behavior reported more life stress, depression and anxiety, lower self-concept, and less cohesive families than other students. Females reporting high levels of delinquent behavior were more likely to have poor classroom and school attendance than other females; this relationship did not hold for males.
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- Self-Reported Delinquent Behavior and Psychosocial Functioning in Inner-City Teenagers: A Brief Report
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Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Volume 28, Issue 4 , pp 241-248
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- 1998-12-01
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- 1573-3327
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
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- Urban Youth
- Self-Report
- Delinquency
- Psychosocial
- School Attendance
- Authors
- Mark D. Weist (1)
- David A. Paskewitz (2)
- Chianti Y. Jackson (3)
- Deborah Jones (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201-1549
- 2. University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
- 3. Towson State University, USA
- 4. University of Georgia, USA


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Excerpted from Secret Language by Monica Wood. Copyright © 2002 by Monica Wood. Excerpted by permission of Ballantine Books, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
A Conversation with Monica Wood
Debra Spark is the author of the novels Coconuts for the Saint and
The Ghost of Bridgetown. She teaches fiction writing at Colby College
and Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers.
Debra Spark: You dedicate this book, your first novel, to Anne
Wood, your sister, and, you write in the dedication, "my guardian
angel"? I know that two of your siblings (a brother and a sister)
are quite a bit older than you (and your other two siblings). Indeed,
Anne was your high school English teacher. Can you tell me
a bit about her and her influence on your writing?
Monica Wood: You just asked me about one of my favorite subjects!
Anne was my high school English teacher. She was--and
is--the center of our family.
Let me tell you a story about Anne, an emblematic story.
I grew up thinking I was some kind of child prodigy, and the evidence
for this was some letters I wrote to Anne, when I was five or
six years old, and she was in college. Over the years, Anne mentioned
these letters as proof positive of my talents. Recently, I was
going through my mother's cedar chest and found the letters. They
said things like, "Hi, Anne. How are you? I am fine. I miss you."
That was basically it. All of them were pretty much the same.
"Are these the letters you've been telling me about?" I asked her.
She said, "Oh, yes," all misty-eyed, and I'm saying, "Are these
ALL the letters?" I kept hoping there was a secret stash somewhere.
Debra Spark: Could you tell me a bit more about the rest of your
Monica Wood: It's an Irish-Catholic mill family from Mexico,
Maine. My grandfather, father, and brother worked all their lives
in the paper mill. My father was born and raised on Prince Edward
Island, and my mother's family also came from there, so
there's a strong Canadian influence. For example, we didn't grow
up with strong Maine accents--you can hear maritime Canada as
much as western Maine in our speech. Also, my family is kind of
unusual in that there are two generations of kids with the same
parents. Anne and my brother Barry are fourteen and nineteen
years older than Cathe, Betty, and me.
Debra Spark: One of the reasons I'm curious about your family
has to do with what your novel seems to say about families, about
how we are shaped--irrevocably--by who we come from. This
seems as much an issue of nurture as nature, since Isadora has inherited
so many traits from the father she never knew, and since
both Faith and Connie have been damaged by their parents and
saved--to a degree--by their childhood coping mechanisms which
continue into adulthood.
Monica Wood: The central notion in Secret Language is that
we're shaped more by shared experience than by blood. Isadora's
never going to fit in the way she wants to, because she didn't share
a childhood with Faith and Connie. They're going to take her in,
but that's not the same as absorbing her into their experience. Not
surprisingly, sibling dynamics have always fascinated me. For example,
I love my older brother, but because he joined the air force
the year I was born, I have a different relationship with him than
with my sister Cathe, with whom I shared a bed for eighteen
years. Because I never lived with my brother, he was always more
of an uncle figure than a brother figure. He has children my age.
On the other hand, because my brother and I are the musicians in
the family, we share something unique.
Debra Spark: You strike me--you'll excuse me for being personal--
as a very loving person.
Monica Wood: Oh, thank you.
Debra Spark: And yet your novel is about people who need to
learn how to love, who can't quite articulate either their needs or
their affections. I wondered where that came from, the interest in
that subject.
Monica Wood: As I look at my work over time, I realize that a
recurring theme for me is of replacing things that have been lost.
People assemble families out of scraps sometimes, since everybody
needs some kind of family. For some people, family is the family
they were born into and never manage to shake. For others, it is a
family that they later assemble. Or a work environment that is
somewhat circumscribed.
Debra Spark: Connie creates a family with Stewart.
Monica Wood: And Isadora, who is trying to collect on something
she thinks she missed out on. Life is a series of losses for
everybody, and we just keep filling up holes as we get older. Some
people have to start at a very early age.
Debra Spark: I happened to read your second novel, My Only
Story, before I read your first novel, Secret Language. They're very
different books, though I'm struck by one rather profound similarity.
In both books, there is a woman who is an observer of a
very connected, noisy family. In the case of My Only Story, it's
Rita, the hairdresser/narrator who wants very much to claim the
Dohertys as her own. In Secret Language, Faith marries into a
family very much like the Dohertys, and yet she's overwhelmed by
them. It all makes me think of the famous Tolstoy quote about
how happy families are all alike, but unhappy families are each
unhappy in their own special way. Do you agree with Tolstoy?
Monica Wood: Oh, no. I think happy families are happy in infinitely
varied ways and that happy families are not happy all the
time. Although I wouldn't want to write a novel in which a happy
family takes center stage, I love them as a counterpoint or backdrop
to the main character's struggle. A happy family can feel
burdensome if you're not happy yourself. No matter who you are,
you think of the world at some point in terms of insiders and outsiders,
and people rarely cast themselves as insiders. Feeling like
an outsider is a common human theme, and in my novels, it seems
to show up in the guise of a big family that's hard to penetrate.
Debra Spark: I wonder if you could say something about your title.
It refers, of course, to the secret language that Stewart mentions
on p. 154, the supposed secret language that indicates the
special understanding of siblings. It seems to me that many people
in your book speak a secret language. Connie and Faith. Connie
and Stewart. Even Billy and Delle, to a degree.
Monica Wood: My original title for this book was Muscle Memory.
My editor said, "You can't call this book Muscle Memory. It's
just stupid." But I actually think the original title describes some
aspects of the novel more precisely than Secret Language. When
you do something often enough for long enough, your muscle retains
the motion. Emotionally, that's what Faith is up against;
she's been closed off for so long it's almost impossible for her to
exist any other way. But Secret Language is a decent title, too, because
the notion of a secret language filters down to all the characters
in one way or another. Joe and Faith have their married
way of speaking long after the divorce; Connie and Stewart have
the banter of exhausted singles on the prowl; Billy and Delle have
their scripts and song lyrics--the only thing that seems to satisfy
them at all.
Debra Spark: I read somewhere that you feel your fiction is getting
more, rather than less, autobiographical, and yet I do notice a
significant autobiographical detail in this novel. So let's talk birds,
for just a second. Faith is an avid birder. She can even do that
trick of getting a black-capped chickadee to land on her finger.
I've seen your house. I've seen the bird feeders outside and all
those ornithology books inside. So, first, a personal question. Can
you do that chickadee trick?
Monica Wood: Yes.
Debra Spark: You can?
Monica Wood: I do it exactly the way I describe it in the book.
The first time I did it I was in the woods in New Hampshire, on a
beautiful fall day. This chickadee--well, they're fairly tame anyway,
not that you can reach up and pluck them off a branch or
anything--this chickadee perched just over my head and I
thought: "He's tame." I put up my hand and he landed briefly. I
silently thanked the woman--I was sure it was a woman--who
had tamed this guy at her feeder in Maine or Massachusetts or
Quebec, who knows where.
Debra Spark: A simple read of the birds in your book would be
that they demonstrate Faith's ability to love. She's sufficiently
damaged by her parents that she can't articulate her emotions
very well, even when Joe, her husband, needs her so desperately to
say what she feels. But what else do you think Faith's birding
reveals about her?
Monica Wood: Well, for her, I think all the birding--and the
flowers that she tends and her house--exhibits her natural instinct
for connection that has been blunted by other circumstances in
her life. I don't want to get too heavily symbolic with the birds.
They arrived in the book because I love birds. And they stayed in
there because I wanted to give this poor woman something to animate
her. After all, she's a tough character in a lot of ways.
Debra Spark: Three of your characters--Billy, Delle, and Isadora--
are all performers. They are also narcissistic, rather manipulative
people. Do they strike you as incapable of love?
Monica Wood: I think Billy and Delle really are. They're in love
with the idea of themselves like ...I hate to say it ...a lot of people
in that profession. They're also in love with the idea of themselves
with two perfectly beautiful children. But I do have affection
for them. They're talented. They're emotionally outsized. There's
something perversely attractive about them. Isadora is a whole other
problem, though. She's willing, she's capable, but she is also ...to
say self-involved would be putting it mildly. But she's not just a user.
Her motivations are more complicated than that. There's something
really appealing to her about having instant sisters.
Debra Spark: You're a singer yourself. Can you say a little about
your performing experience? Is there a reason you never pursued
a career more seriously?
Monica Wood: Well, let me tell you something . . . singing in bars
at night gets old really fast. You're breathing smoke all night long.
You're lugging equipment around. I did it for a few years. Now I
don't really do much performing to speak of.
Debra Spark: For eight years, you were a high school guidance
counselor. For me, some of your novel's most affecting material
concerns the years when Faith and Connie are in high school, surviving
as virtual orphans. I wonder if the characters of Faith and
Connie were drawn from something you came to understand
about adolescents when you were still working at Westbrook
High School.
Monica Wood: I was still at Westbrook when I started the early
versions of this book. Or it was right after I left. It's hard to remember
how a book starts. One thing about being a high school
guidance counselor is you see every kind of kid there is, and you
see kids in groups, which is different from interacting with your
own kid and your own kid's friends. You learn different things
about kids' hungers and fears. I did have kids who seemed to have
been born forty, like Faith. They broke my heart, but I admired
them deeply. They were able to somehow manage in the most
gruesome situations.
Debra Spark: Could you tell me a bit about the storytelling tradition
in your own family?
Monica Wood: I learned early on that if you were going to tell a
story, you had to do it in a certain way. It had to be suspenseful or
funny or compelling or flat-out eye-popping or nobody would
bother repeating it. When someone starts to tell a big story in my
family, we all sigh, "Oh, here goes Mrs. McCarn," referring to
one of the many Prince Edward Island eccentrics we grew up
hearing about. Apparently this woman couldn't tell a story without
grabbing a coat off a rack or a pan off the stove, roaming the
room to act out all the parts. We make fun of this storytelling
method, but we all do it. My mother was the champion, but my
sister Cathe and brother Barry are right on her heels. They can tell
a hell of a story.
Debra Spark: One thing I admire about your novel is how you
handle time. Both how you move forward in time, and how you
make time itself (memory and the past) part of your story. When I
finished your novel, I thought of the optimistic Grace Paley quote
about how characters should be allowed "the open destiny of
life." I have a rather happy sense of what may happen next to
your characters, though I realize there are questions left up in the
air. Certainly your novel feels done, and yet I wouldn't mind re-meeting
these characters in another novel or story. Have you ever
felt tempted to go back to them? Or indeed to return to any of the
characters in your finished work?
Monica Wood: Never. Never. By the time I finish with a novel, I
have spent so much time with these people that I love them dearly,
but I never want to see them again.
Debra Spark: Your own formal education in writing was relatively
brief--you attended a month's worth of writing workshops
with George Garrett--and yet you yourself are a rather famous
writing teacher in Maine. Your students speak of you with great
affection and admiration, and you've written several books about
writing. How does teaching writing influence your own writing?
Monica Wood: I love to teach writing, because it keeps me in
mind of the fundamentals and reminds me what I know--and
don't know--about craft. Just this morning I was struggling with
a scene in a new novel, not getting what the scene was about, but
stubbornly writing and writing, all this lyrical folderol. Then I
asked myself how I'd advise a student in my situation. I ended up
doing one of my favorite exercises: rewriting a scene using words
of only one syllable. Once I dispensed with the fancy stuff, I got to
the heart of something that had been bugging me for weeks.
Teaching prevents me from getting overconfident about my abilities
just because I'm experienced. Probably the opposite is true:
The more experience you have the less you can rely on your past
1. When Faith remembers her wedding, she believes "that if she had only been able to warm herself, if she had only stayed inside her body as she pledged forever and true, she might have learned to live with a man like Joe, a man who loved her." What is Faith acknowledging about herself here? Does it seem like a fair self-assessment?
2. Why is it so hard for Faith to be part of her husband's family? After Joe confesses his affair, Faith speaks of an "unpleasant but strangely welcome feeling: her old, frozen self, finally delivered from the terrible trouble of love." Why is the feeling unpleasant? Why welcome? What has been troubling, for her, about the love that Joe--and the Fullers--seem to offer and, perhaps, demand?
3. What kind of mother is Faith? What kind of sister? What kind of wife? What kind of love is she adept at? What kinds of love mystify her?
4. What characters seem to speak a "secret language" in this book?
5. Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy holds that art is the means of transferring feeling from one man's heart to another. Where does Wood best convey the feelings of her characters?
6. A pleasure of fiction: We can understand another person's version of the world, even if it isn't our own version of the world. When did you trust a character's version of the world, even if you didn't agree with it? Did you ever fail to trust a character's version of the world when you disagreed with it? I.e., did your disagreement ever make you feel that the character wasn't believable?
7. What does Isadora James mean to Connie? To Faith? How do you interpret Isadora's interest in finding her half-sisters and maintaining a relationship with them?
8. Faith and Connie are clearly damaged by their past. What, exactly, is it that they can't seem to escape about their past? Are they doomed to re-enact the past forever, or does the story suggest a way to move beyond childhood damage?
9. How would you describe Connie and Stewart's relationship?
10. Connie and Faith are very different people, yet Connie, too, struggles with love. What is hard for her about love? Faith, we know, fears love, as if it might kill her. Does Connie have a similar fear?
11. When Connie is in the hospital, Isadora whispers to Faith, "I wish I had to be here, Faith. Some burdens are good." Given Isadora's later behavior, it is hard to take this sentence at face value. Is Isadora in earnest? Does she seem to be speaking the truth, whether or not she means it?
12. Secret Language circles back to memories of Granny (memories of Granny's home start the book and memories of Granny seem to resolve the sisters' altercation in Part VI) and to significant performances. (Part I ends with the line, "It is opening night," and Part VIII is titled "Opening Night.") Why does the novel circle back this way? What does the novel seem to be suggesting about memory and the influence of the past?


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Chapter 17 of Groothuis' Christian Apologetics argues that being an embodied mind or soul is the best explanation for the ways humanity is unique: consciousness, cognition and language. Materialism cannot adequately explain first person access, incorrigibility, qualia, propositional attitudes, intentionality, truth or love.
A substance is a particular thing (can't be in two places at once, has causal powers) and its properties can change, whereas it is not a property of anything.
Substance dualism says the mind and body are two different substances. Materialism says mind is a property of matter. Idealism says matter is a property of mind.
Jesus was a substance dualist, as seen when he told the repentant thief he would be with him that very day in paradise, though their bodies would be in the grave. (Luke 23:43)
Accounting for Consciousness: A materialist puzzle
Consciousness is a puzzle for materialists because, unlike most everything else they account for, it has no weight, mass, motion, et cetera.
Mind and Matter: A difference in kind
Differing in kind involves possessing different defining characteristics, with no intermediate between kinds. Differing in degree is differing continuously, not in kind.
Discrepant Properties
Brain matter cannot be faithful, hopeful, loving, rational, seeing blue, feeling blue. It will help if you replace "mind" with "experience" ...you can feel an experience...but when you touch the brain, you are not feeling an experience (mind), you are just feeling a brain (matter). A thought about a rose isn't red. Mental states and physical states differ in kind and so are not identical.
Private Access and Incorrigibility
Though brain function can be seen in a CAT scan and manipulated with a probe, only the mind has access to its thoughts and feelings. As with religious experience in the last chapter, the mind is not one-way produced by the brain, rather it can also have effects on the brain. We can have incorrigible beliefs about our experiences, but we cannot have incorrigible beliefs about physical objects.
Qualia: Being there
This one is fuzzy. Qualia are sensations of consciousness. They are associated with material states but not reducible to them. I'm not sure how he argued to that conclusion. See brain touching example above, though.
Propositional Attitudes and Intentionality
Propositional attitudes are just beliefs. Intentionality just means that the beliefs are "about" something. The argument is that the relationship between believer and believed is not a spatial/material one, but one of thought (mind).
Truth: A materialist problem
A proposition (belief), at the heart of all human language, is an intellectual unit of meaning not reducible to any of its physical manifestations. Truth: a belief corresponds to its object--but not spatially/materially.
Love: The materialist acid
In order for love to be a true experience we can know and exemplify, 1. selves must be real, 2. love must be more than a physical response--it must be rooted in the eternal character/substance of God.
Responding to objections to dualism.
1. Ockham's razor: Why claim 2, when you can go for the more simple 1? Because it fails to explain. It's "too" simple.
2. Material states effect consciousness. Answer: Correlation does not equal identification.
3. Mind and matter are too different to interact. Answer: Don't have to know the "how" to know that interaction happens. There is evidence that interaction happens.
4. Darwinism entails materialism. Answer: See Popper and Eccles "The Self and Its Brain" and other philosophers who do not argue for materialism.
From Mind to Mindful Maker
1. Mind (substance) emerged from matter ex nihilo.
2. Epiphenomenalism or property dualism. Mind is latent or intrinsic in matter--rather than being separate from it (it is property of matter). This denies that mind can act as an agent, defying our experience. It cannot account for the unity of the self over time. It fails to give a purely materialistic account.
3. Pantheism: All of reality is a universal mind--matter does not exist. It denies our experience of matter and cannot explain finite consciousness or subject-object distinctions.
Cognition: How can we know the world?
Materialism and Reason
1. If materialism is true, we cannot trust our cognitive faculties because a) they weren't designed to know the world and b) they are merely material organs with no ability to experience rational insight.
2. Our cognitive capacities are basically trustworthy.
3. Therefore, materialism is false.
My critique of the first premise is that it commits the genetic fallacy. Attacking the propositions of an evolved brain on the basis that it is evolved does nothing to address its arguments.
Pantheism and Reason
1 If pantheism is true, we cannot trust our rational faculties because a) they are not designed to know the world, b) there is no finite and material world to know, c) reason (either-or) is not the organ to discern truth.
2. We can trust our rational faculties.
3. Therefore, pantheism is false.
The Christian Answer
We are created in God's image and likeness. Though the world is rationally ordered, it is irrational in that it cannot reason. We can break free from it through abstract reasoning. My pushback here is that God doesn't do some weird sort of whammy on us that makes all knowledge possible...and we are still wrong about a lot of things.
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Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) - Jonny Flynn put in 16 of his career-high 29 points in the second half and overtime as Minnesota overcame a 17-point halftime deficit to take a 108-103 decision from Philadelphia at the Target Center.
Al Jefferson had 23 points and 13 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who returned home on the heels of a winless four-game road trip to earn only their second win in the last 11 contests.
"It feels great. We kind of struggled a little bit in the first half, then came out big and fought back. You have to keep fighting and we did that today," Flynn said.
Ryan Gomes contributed 16 points and Damien Wilkins 13 with 10 rebounds.
Andre Iguodala paced the 76ers with 17 points, seven boards and five assists. Willie Green added 16 points and Lou Williams 15 in the loss for Philadelphia, which had won three of four coming in and got double-digit scoring efforts from seven different players.
Samuel Dalembert had 12 points and 10 rebounds, Allen Iverson dished nine assists and scored 11 points to equal Marreese Speights' scoring output.
After Philadelphia blew a lead that was as high as 20 just before the break, Iguodala hit two at the line and nailed a jumper to tie the game at 91 with four minutes left in regulation. He hit a three 1 1/2 minutes later to stay within one, but a Jefferson layup with 1:10 to play had Minnesota up 99-96.
Elton Brand drew a foul and made both shots to get back within one, and after Wilkins misfired on a three, Iguodala made 1-of-2 at the line to tie things at 99 with 27.8 seconds left.
Flynn couldn't get a runner to fall on the next possession and Dalembert secured the board with four seconds left. That was enough time for Iguodala to get a decent look at a 19-footer, but it was off the mark.
Flynn scored the first three points of overtime and made 1-of-2 at the charity stripe with 2:27 remaining for a 105-101 advantage. Following a series of misses and turnovers on both ends, Jefferson got a tip-in to go for a 107-101 game with 44.5 ticks left.
Williams had an ensuing three rim out and Corey Brewer's free throw extended the margin to seven with 25.3 to go -- a difference that ultimately proved too much for the Sixers to overcome.
"I don't know why this is happening, we're still not getting breaks, still not closing out games," Williams said. "It's another big lead that we lost. I don't know if there needs to be a big sit-down...where guys say we need to finish out games. I think we understand that at this point, we just need to go out and do it."
The Sixers held a 29-17 lead after 12 minutes before settling on a 57-40 halftime difference. The T'Wolves surged to begin the second half and Flynn helped cut the deficit to 11, 63-52, with a pair of buckets that began a 13-2 run. Gomes scored the next seven and Jefferson ended the stretch with a jumper to get within four at 65-61 with 4 1/2 minutes to go.
Gomes knocked down a three and added a jumper to get within 68-66 moments later and Flynn's three-ball tied it at 73 just before the end of the period. An outlet pass from Iverson to Speights resulted in a quick deuce, and Philadelphia entered the fourth with a two-point edge.
The Wolves went ahead for the first time since the game's opening minute on Wilkins' dunk less than two minutes into the fourth. Philadelphia went back in front during a 9-0 burst a short time late, as Speights' jumper capped the stretch for an 84-79 lead with under eight minutes left.
The back-and-forth sequence continued with Minnesota rattling off a 10-2 spurt to take a 91-87 edge on Flynn's runner with less than five minutes to go.
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Miami Gardens Man Arrested and Charged with Mailing Hoax Threats to Broward Government Offices
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Addy Villanueva, Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Miami Field Office, and Al Lamberti, Sheriff, Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO), announced that the defendant Tarvess David Taylor, 26, of Miami Gardens, was charged and arrested for mailing hoax threats to various local government offices in Broward County. The five count indictment, which was returned on April 12, 2012, charges Taylor with mailing five envelopes containing a powdery substance, in violation of the hoax threat statute, Title 18, United States Code, Section 1038(a)(1).
More specifically, the indictment alleges that on October 4, 2011, Taylor mailed five separate envelopes, each containing a powdery substance. The envelopes were addressed to the Broward County Sheriff's Office and the State Courthouse of the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida. As a result of these mailings, the Broward County Sheriff's Office and the State Courthouse of the 17th Judicial Circuit of Florida had to be closed while the Broward County Fire-Rescue HAZMAT Team responded to the scene to collect the powdery substance and ensure the safety of the facilities.
If convicted, Taylor faces a maximum statutory term of imprisonment of up to 5 years on each of the five counts.
Mr. Ferrer commended the investigative efforts of the FBI, FDLE, and BSO. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Walleisa.
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