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terry-odell's picture
Jun.13.2013
I’m going to be at Thriller­Fest next month, and I’ve been assigned to a panel called, “Is There a Sound­track For Your Book?” For me, the...
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terry-spear's picture
Jun.13.2013
Still cleaning out stuff and finally got to the point where I can spackle and paint a wall. When I sold my other home, I painted the whole house...
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cynthia-brian's picture
Jun.12.2013
  This broadcast is our 75th consecutive broadcast of Express Yourself!™ and in honor of this momentous occasion we are dreaming BIG! People who...
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nathan-burgoine's picture
Jun.12.2013
Today I was pretty good on the writing front. I got about 4,400 words down. I also worked on the retaining wall a wee bit in the back yard, set up...
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andrew-q-lam's picture
Jun.12.2013
Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew LamBooks in Conversation Read Andrew Lam, and bask in his love of language, and his compassion for people, both...
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cliff-burns's picture
Jun.12.2013
My short story collection Exceptions & Deceptions is now available for purchase in a variety of formats. Nineteen genre-busting tales, literary...
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jill-jepson's picture
Jun.12.2013
Recently, I revived my practice of spiritual journaling. Why? Because   . . . Because it reminds me to be still. Because it brings me...
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dale-estey's picture
Jun.12.2013
Books are crafted as books. Movies are crafted as movies. The two art forms do not equate. The two art forms are not mix & match. One does...
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orna-b-raz's picture
Jun.12.2013
 In "Gravitation" the poet brings  forces of nature like thunder, lightning and the movement of the earth into the short human encounter....
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steven-robert-travers's picture
Jun.12.2013
  Walter Duranty and the New York Times: “useful idiots” for Marxism-Leninism There were “liberal” newspapers before World War I. Every...
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patricia-lantz's picture
Jun.15.2013
Saturday, June 15, 2013: The tension is palpable today and you'll have little tolerance for inefficiency. Watch for a sense of frustration and...
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sherrie-theriault's picture
Jun.15.2013
June 15     Down to the Watership     The immoderate champions immoderation; the glutton recommends consumption, more often than...
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mark-hunter's picture
Jun.14.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK   Gilligan should have died. Hold that thought, I’ll get back to it. When I was young I couldn’t understand why girls were...
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JohnnyOla's picture
Jun.14.2013
  When I’m not thinking, I am pretty much thoughtless.   When I am thinking a lot, does that make me thoughtful?  
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karen-devaney's picture
Jun.14.2013
 Last week my brother in law committed suicide.  My initial response was disbelief and horror.  I thought things were better, happier...
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sherry-parnell's picture
Jun.14.2013
I love to read and in my days before diapers, preschool drop-offs and play dates; I spent my free hours luxuriating in the pleasure of vicariously...
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sarah-cotchaleovitch's picture
Jun.14.2013
Comma (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I know I've been harping on about grammar and punctuation a lot lately, but I am of the school of thought that if you...
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edward-averill's picture
Jun.14.2013
I have to admit, I do have very eclectic tastes in reading. I've tackled all manner of difficult material - Spencers Faerie Queene, the Kalevala, the...
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monty-heying's picture
Jun.14.2013
A novel can be read literally or figuratively, or some combination of the two. People who are looking for a realistic representation of life take...
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michael-seidel's picture
Jun.14.2013
I'm coping with myself, as usual. Really, I'm just coping with life's typical currents.  They're swift and bouncy today. I feed off of writing...
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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.