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judy-jones's picture
Nov.16.2008
"Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked o Obama could run. Obama ran so we can all fly."  by  Jay-Z
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jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Nov.16.2008
Definitely an idea whose time has come.   If you agree,  you might be interested in hearing about a Washington, D.C. non-profit, Woodhull Freedom...
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lisa-frankfort's picture
Nov.16.2008
Day 16 word count goal: 1,667 x 16 = 26,672 Current word count: 23,842 I'm plugging along doggedly on my Nano novel, trying not to get stalled...
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bob-levin's picture
Nov.16.2008
I will be selling and signing my books November 29, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the 11th Annual Artisan Faire in the ballroom of the Claremont Hotel, 41...
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paul-r-linde's picture
Nov.16.2008
I like the way Victor Frankl defines success and the elusive nature of happiness: “Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target...
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pavel-somov's picture
Nov.16.2008
In my former work as a clinical director of a drug and alcohol treatment program in a county jail and in my current outpatient work with substance...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Nov.16.2008
Roz Chast gets me... or does she? I have a new Red Diaper Dharma column up at Literary Mama.   "One of my favorite Roz Chast cartoons shows a...
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nina-amir's picture
Nov.16.2008
Writers can never get too much advice from editors about how to improve their writing. And even editors can learn from other editors. That's why I...
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jess-wells's picture
Nov.16.2008
Kevin Cantwell, a warmly gracious and insightful professor from Macon State College, says that when his first-year students choose to write...
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beverley-bie-brahic's picture
Nov.16.2008
Pierre Boulez at the Louvre. Went back to see it again this afternoon. Two rooms, a few drawings, water colors (Delacroix, Degas, Klee, Kandinsky,...
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brad-green's picture
Jan.16.2009
Here's a choice for you: say you can publish your work in a high-quality print journal or a high-quality online journal. Circulation on the print...
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vicki-nikolaidis's picture
Jan.16.2009
How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe The Guardian, Wednesday 7 January 2009 Oxford professor...
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ananda-kiamsha-madelyn-leeke's picture
Jan.16.2009
Blessings All, Yesterday marked the 80th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a committed and complex America man who shared his gifts as...
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vicki-nikolaidis's picture
Jan.16.2009
What can one person do to demand woldwide civility?  It's time to organize a world wide economic boycott against Israel and Israel's largest...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Jan.16.2009
I stood at the kitchen window for a while this afternoon and enjoyed watching the yellow tits eat lunch. I think they are formally known as great...
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cathy-bryant's picture
Jan.16.2009
Let me introduce my ShoutLife friend, author Marty Norman! Welcome to WordVessel, Marty! Let's learn more! Marty Norman is a wife, mother, and...
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kim-smith's picture
Jan.16.2009
I am thinking back over things my parents used to say. They lived during the Great Depression and they said it was nothing for them to have people...
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walter-ward's picture
Jan.16.2009
      We all saw how President George W. Bush agilely ducked two shoes thrown at him in Baghdad. The incident became a fodder for jokes,...
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cat-connor's picture
Jan.16.2009
Friday was most excellent Current mood:hot, really really hot -maybe...
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brian-mckee's picture
Jan.15.2009
I lost my day job today.I had worked at this company for over nine years. I think this is the universe's way of saying, "time to move on."...
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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.