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marilyn-kallet's picture
Dec.05.2008
Some chemical in my brain seems to have kicked in yesterday, the first full day off from teaching at the university. Poems came flooding over me.  I...
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james-buchanan's picture
Dec.05.2008
When I was a newspaper reporter in Derry, NH, I used to have the devil of a time writing the introductory paragraph to my news stories (these are...
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jennifer-mclagan's picture
Dec.05.2008
The advantage of living in a northern climateis that finally all those Christmas recipes make sense. In winter our body naturally craves richer foods...
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jean-m-fogle's picture
Dec.05.2008
Friday, December 5, 2008 Heaven and Nature Sing! Nature always provides us with suprises. This ice storm was a suprise, and not a pleasant one for...
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lisa-shearin's picture
Dec.05.2008
I know some of you are probably thinking, "Huh?" Others are thinking I must be a glutton for punishment. Any...
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tania-hershman's picture
Dec.05.2008
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites) A few recommendations for great reading that I've enjoyed this week (links open new windows so feel free to click '...
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kemble-scott's picture
Dec.04.2008
For those of us who are gay, the passage of California’s Prop 8 that banned same-sex civil marriage has caused a great deal of pain. Do...
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jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Dec.04.2008
It's reassuring to see Barack Obama's team of advisors is almost the size of the National Guard, and to think that, instead of an alligator at 1600...
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stephen-evans's picture
Dec.04.2008
Following the seemingly interminable and generally overwrought discussion of who wrote Shakespeare's plays, the answer can now be revealed. After...
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ellen-r-sheeley's picture
Dec.04.2008
Yesterday I received this e-mail message from Amazon.com.  I write nonfiction, but perhaps some of you NaNoWriMo Red Room authors, members, and...
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former member's picture
Feb.10.2009
by former member
Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is a serious but preventable disease that medical condition characterized by a prolonged contraction of skeletal...
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diane-richwine's picture
Feb.10.2009
I was inspired today by Blair Kilpatrick who wrote the book Accordion Dreams and started the Cajun band, Sauce Piquante. I will attend her book...
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former member's picture
Feb.10.2009
by former member
When I heard during the NCIS marathon on USA Network during one of those "Characters Welcome" segments that the individual coloring that...
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jennifer-schmitt's picture
Feb.10.2009
A few nights ago, my doorbell rang and I opened the door to find a few adults standing there, along with a little girl and a dog. “Do you know who...
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brad-green's picture
Feb.10.2009
Why do you write? Are you going to tell me it's a compulsion, that like breath, the need to write swells your lungs? Or perhaps you want attention....
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former member's picture
Feb.10.2009
by former member
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/09/DDJ215H812.DTL&hw=andropause&sn=001&sc=1000 I thank you, Randy Wong. Your...
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hopefawn-levenson's picture
Feb.10.2009
Hello fellow writers! This is my first experience with Red Room, first entry, first day. Just as if it were school, I feel unprepared. I should have...
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asha-vose's picture
Feb.10.2009
Lately it seems for every item accomplished on my to do list, three more are added. How is a person to get any writing done? Anyway, in the spirit of...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Feb.10.2009
How nice it is to have another female in the house.  My thirteen year old niece and her brother are staying over for a few days, while their parents...
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former member's picture
Feb.10.2009
by former member
Feel like listening to a concert tonight? Something classical? Or maybe folk is a bit more your style? World? Jazz? Nearly every day, two or three...
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