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Nov.05.2008
Election Day: A Family Story
by Wade Rouse
One of the worst days of my parents’ marriage came mere weeks into it, before I was even born, over a November pot roast dinner when my mother...
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Nov.05.2008
WOW
by Geoffrey Thorne
I'm still processing. Not sure I'm actually awake. It's not impossible that I hit my head sometime yesterday after voting and am unconscious...
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Nov.05.2008
Let The Healing Begin
by Arlene Goldbard
My Canadian friends and I were huddled together in hope, glued to CNN, when, a few minutes after 8 pm Pacific Time, the results put Barack Obama over...
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Nov.05.2008
IT IS ALL ABUNDANTLY CLEAR
by Stephen Kaufman
I accept myself as a perfect representation of the thoughts that course through my mind and the visions I have of my unfolding experiences in my life...
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Nov.05.2008
Oh, Obama
by Susan Browne
Today is a great day.  Barack Obama is President Elect of the United States.  I'm in love with my country again.  Last night, over a million people...
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Nov.05.2008
Memo from the British Isles
by Rosy Cole
The United States, the world, has a new President-elect.To enable a new era, he will need our goodwill. Whatever he gets wrong, he will need 'on the...
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Nov.05.2008
Yes, Apparently, We Can. Go Figure
by David Niall Wilson
I did not expect to get teary-eyed during Obama's acceptance speech.  If it had only been his words, which were eloquent, resounding, and intelligent...
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Nov.05.2008
Woman love
by Farzana Versey
All she wanted to do was lie close to me and fall asleep. I cared enough to want to share bits of her life, her walks, and her falls. I just could...
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Nov.05.2008
Election Reflection
by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
Back in 2004, I sat in my then cottage with two writer friends who happen to be on Redroom, and we watched the debate between John Kerry and George...
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Nov.05.2008
PW's Best Book of the Year--Heart of the Wolf &...
by Terry Spear
Yes, I know, I've mentioned it already, three times now! But it's really, really big news. My publicist is making press releases as we now speak. So...
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former member's picture
Dec.30.2008
Writing Poetry…
by former member
Writing Poetry…   Writing poetry is like the newborn draughts of ecstatic wind; kissingthe innocuous cluster of green leaves; with the most...
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former member's picture
Dec.30.2008
Without you O! Beloved
by former member
Without you O! Beloved   Without you; the most tantalizing morsels of robustlysparkling food; seemed to me worse than threadbarechunks of...
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former member's picture
Dec.30.2008
Woman
by former member
Woman   A garden of voluptuously endless scent; sprouting into a bountiful maze of tantalizing color and vibrancy; every unleashing minute of the...
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Dec.29.2008
pain
by eusebio bechayda
pain is a way of life. i realized this as i lay prone on the basketball court watching my knee bended in an awkward position knowing that i would...
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Dec.29.2008
The bully
by Jorge Richard Guerrero
The word “bully” was synonymous to my name during my seminary days. Though most of my fellow seminarians were taller than me, my childhood of street...
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Dec.29.2008
The Womb
by Amira Nagati
He held the baby in his handsAs small as a little birdSo warm and graceful, so softWhat it said, not a wordBut a code, that of loveAnd he was levered...
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Dec.29.2008
A New Way of Being (comment on Daily Kos)
by Cary Chrysler
 When I was very young...    Before I learned to walk, I was serene, like a little Buddha.  My mom used to say she could sit me in a corner,...
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Dec.29.2008
The Military Commissions Act Should Be Repealed
by Charles Entrekin
The Military Commissions Act Should Be Repealed   Having tried and failed to suspend habeas corpus for two American citizens, Jose Padilla and...
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Dec.29.2008
Ball Bearings in Space
by Paul Reed
Have you ever known anyone that skated through life as if they had figured out the smoothest roads in the world?  I have and his name is Blake Lollis...
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former member's picture
Dec.29.2008
Ladies, you'll like this! Blindness for blindness: Irani...
by former member
"At an age at which I should be putting on a wedding dress, I am asking for someone's eyes to be dripped with acid," Four years ago, a...
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