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May.22.2013
by Jill Jepson
With my classes over for the term, here are some of the things I'm reading and watching as my summer commences. None of these...
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May.22.2013
They hacked a soldier to death. What was as bad as the spectacle of TV anchors giving tantalising sound bites about the possible...
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May.13.2013
The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velázquez that hangs in a gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is surrounded...
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Sep.12.2012
If you’re an author, traditionally or self-published, you can now sell your eBooks on Red Room! Plus, if you’re a Premium Member...
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May.15.2013
I see such pictures and cringe. It is not about colour. Or race. It is about how, even with the goodness of our hearts, we...
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May.16.2013
My late father-in-law built a birdhouse for our yard. It was a simple thing—a box, painted dark brown, with a peaked roof, a...
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May.22.2013
They hacked a soldier to death. What was as bad as the spectacle of TV anchors giving tantalising sound bites about the possible...
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Oct.23.2008
She pulled back the curtains and glanced into the backyard. He was out there again. All she could see was his dirty jeans and one...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
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Oct.23.2008
She pulled back the curtains and glanced into the backyard. He was out there again. All she could see was his dirty jeans and one...
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Aug.23.2008
I spent this summer between two residencies and traveling. I spent this summer writing and writing. At what I thought was the end...
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Sep.12.2008
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has developed exercises called Mindful Movements. These simple,...
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Jan.29.2009
From my January 27 column on tips for using the dictionary:
Is it “I have drunk my coffee” or “I have drank my coffee”? Do you...
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