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alex-grant's picture
Jan.18.2009
Tonight, I saw starfish fall from a fleshy nebula and land on a black beach made entirely of coffee grounds - they sunbathed effortlessly until the...
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austin-s-camacho's picture
Jan.18.2009
I received e-mails from a few friends recently asking me to back a political movement.  I generally shy away from such things, but as it affects the...
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pamela-dennison's picture
Jan.18.2009
As you all know, in October I went to speak at the APDT conference in Australia and had to leave my dogs with my friends John and Cynthia in Ontario...
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tim-wise's picture
Jan.18.2009
Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, is now available! According to The Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama's...
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jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Jan.18.2009
Some memorable words from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. whose presence is felt this year more than any: "A nation or civilization that continues...
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mickie-phipps's picture
Jan.18.2009
My co-author David Shippy was interviewed by Leigh Alexander at Gamasutra.com, a major video gamers' website. You can read the interview, which was...
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ugo-mattei's picture
Jan.18.2009
I would like to send to President Obama and to the whole US people the best wishes for the next four years. Might the US and the Western world...
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robert-b-smith's picture
Jan.18.2009
In light of the current economic crisis, we are seeing a predictable drop in funding for the arts. Face it; many of the corporate sponsors whose...
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gina-collia-suzuki's picture
Jan.18.2009
There are a few elements of my own personal experiences with nuisance neighbours which I did not include in the book at all... one being racism. My...
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june-casagrande's picture
Jan.18.2009
An excerpt from columnist Steve Lopez in today's Los Angeles Times:  "A woman had come to a book signing of mine last year and insisted that I...
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vicki-nikolaidis's picture
Mar.27.2009
   Greek Independence Day is especially meaningful in Crete.  For more than a decade the Cretan insurgency battled against great odds to free their...
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brian-mckee's picture
Mar.26.2009
Currently, where I live, it is not possible to get a DSL internet connection with a third party provider without having a bill from AT&T (the...
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jodi-thompson's picture
Mar.26.2009
Ambushed by an old woman today. Never saw it comming.  My 83-year-old mother has wanted to get her knee replaced for some time. The cartilage is worn...
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thomas-white's picture
Mar.26.2009
I have made some progress on my quest. I am half way through my adaptation of my novel, Justice Rules, to screenplay. My plan is to get it adapted...
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cat-connor's picture
Mar.26.2009
Current mood:surreal I meant to do this first thing, but discovered I was out of coffee - so obviously needed to remedy that situation before...
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former member's picture
Mar.26.2009
by former member
The church was instituted by God in part to stand as a defensive bulwark to protect against erroneous doctrine and spiritually damaging heresies from...
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former member's picture
Mar.26.2009
by former member
Nasa is using friction stir welding to build its new space craft. No blowtorch, no solder, no sparks, no smoke, no ozone and no radiation. Instead,...
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former member's picture
Mar.26.2009
by former member
A dot in the sky becomes a rock in the hand. An asteroid near miss (as opposed to the more recent near hit) is the first time an object first seen in...
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patrick-erwin's picture
Mar.26.2009
I've been looking for a new job since I lost my job nearly four months ago. I've looked high and low, near and far, and in every category I could...
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former member's picture
Mar.26.2009
by former member
"Sexting": a disturbing new teenage trend.
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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.