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terry-odell's picture
Dec.19.2008
Waiting rooms. How aptly named. Yesterday, hubby and I arrived about 10 minutes before he'd been told to report to the hospital for check in. The...
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raul-ramos-y-sanchez's picture
Dec.19.2008
Many in the GLBT community are outraged over the choice of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration.  Certainly Rev...
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clinton-fein's picture
Dec.19.2008
One hates blacks and one hates JewsOne hates Muslims throwing shoesOne hates Jews and also whites One spews hatred, one picks fightsDiverse,...
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jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Dec.18.2008
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric,  but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." William Butler Yeats
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elizabeth-stark's picture
Dec.18.2008
Here is the next round of inspiration “triggers.” I also recommend taking a look at a great posting called “Use the Difficulty” on Blog of Stowers....
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steven-y-park's picture
Dec.18.2008
I just read an article in Oprah's O Magazine, where Oprah describes herself as having the "wagon" fall on her, regarding her recent weight...
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heather-catherine-hogan's picture
Dec.18.2008
Let's talk about part two of the sense of sight.  How do we see ourselves in our own mind?  Do we see who we really are clearly?  Do we respond to...
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j-p-smith's picture
Dec.18.2008
As the late Chilean author Roberto Bolaño well knew, with Hepatitis C you are either counting your days, stacking them like coins found in a drawer...
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james-buchanan's picture
Dec.18.2008
In 2007, Stephen King described in the New York Times what he thought a short story should do, "Talent can't help itself; it roars along in fair...
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jeffrey-ricker's picture
Dec.18.2008
Three of my friends are unemployed. I have been distressed about this—though, I'm sure, not nearly as much as they are. And honestly, the past year...
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former member's picture
Feb.24.2009
by former member
"Once every 48 years, forests of the bamboo known as Melocanna baccifera go into exuberant flower in parts of northeast India [a process called...
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vivian-mcinerny's picture
Feb.24.2009
Shannon Gee’s aerial act, a combination of classical ballet and erotic pole dance moves she calls "pole en pointe," celebrates, redefines...
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vivian-mcinerny's picture
Feb.24.2009
Her wig is big. Her pink dress is tiny. The style is Marie Antoinette abbreviated to expose six-inch heels of translucent plastic and the better part...
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barbara-boyer's picture
Feb.24.2009
To catch up on what Sunset Sessions is please refer to previous blogs... I was awed watching my friend Michele in her element (again, if you do not...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Feb.24.2009
Reading Carolyn Burns Bass’ blog today about Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday made me think. Unlike Carolyn, I am Catholic. Well, a lapsed...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Feb.24.2009
I admire Joan Didion.  While visiting Californa last December, I was rooting around in a Borders store and I picked up a copy of The White Album.  A...
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christine-cosgrove's picture
Feb.24.2009
The date of out Stanford bookstore reading and discussion of Normal at Any Cost has been changed: the new date is Thursday, April 2 at 6 p.m. Please...
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jodi-thompson's picture
Feb.24.2009
I am so very tired. Weary tired. Exhausted tired. Sick and tired. My job is boring me to the point of distraction, to the point of ennui, to the...
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former member's picture
Feb.24.2009
by former member
"... many critics and editors, especially male ones, make a fetish of "ambition," by which they mean the contemporary equivalent of...
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former member's picture
Feb.24.2009
by former member
Christopher Nolan is dead. This Irish writer who, mute and quadriplegic since birth, produced a highly praised volume of verse and short stories at...
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