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ericka-lutz's picture
Sep.23.2008
I'm sad today, melancholic and demoralized, acutely sensitive, choking up at songs on the radio, reliving old griefs. When I'm like this, a few...
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adrienne-mayor's picture
Sep.23.2008
"The ruins proclaim that the building was beautiful." Urdu saying, from The Reluctant Fundamentalist. 
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june-casagrande's picture
Sep.23.2008
The reason is threefold: 419 hits The reasons are threefold: 597 hits I've mostly heard people use that plural one. But today I came across the...
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anne-brooke's picture
Sep.23.2008
Here we are again. Day Two of Freshers’ Week. I got in early – though not as early as yesterday – and set our table up. Thank goodness no-one had...
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john-erwin-doerper's picture
Sep.23.2008
I was wrong yesterday: some of my grapes had ripened after all. Which meant I got to feast on both fresh fish and grapes. It's such little things...
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pauline-rowson's picture
Sep.23.2008
 I attended the photo shoot for the publicity for the Havant Literary Festival this morning with fellow authors, Brian Clarke and saga writer Dee...
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robert-gray's picture
Sep.23.2008
This series of poems is from my upcoming novel in verse.  The novel is centered on my brother, Drew, who died of a brain tumor at the age of 24.  The...
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farzana-versey's picture
Sep.23.2008
Slayer, I shall forever longTo hear the executioner’s song We will have coffee when we meet Espresso for you, cappuccino for me I like it frothy, the...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Sep.23.2008
When I met Michael, we had three children in the area, one of whom lived with me (mine, of course).  His two children lived with their mother, but we...
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jean-m-fogle's picture
Sep.23.2008
JRT shows how to enjoy the beach! Fall means less people, warm water and lots of fun for dogs at the beach. Molly, my JRT, really enjoys the...
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kelly-hogaboom's picture
Nov.20.2008
Recently I watched what seemed like an alpha-contest between two or three women in one of the institutions I volunteer with. As a voting member on...
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paul-west's picture
Nov.20.2008
I know, this doesn't have much to do with writing, more musings. No one has ever accused me of being lazy, but I can remember a time as a kid,...
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edmund-jenks's picture
Nov.20.2008
Hyundai HED-5 "i-Mode" Concept Makes North American Debut at Los Angeles Auto Show with new Eco-friendly Powertrain. Image Credit: Hyundai...
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kay-collins's picture
Nov.20.2008
I moved to Milwaukee in 1990.  Growing up in northern Wisconsin and attending college on the northwest side of the state, I just wanted to get out...
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laura-radcliff's picture
Nov.20.2008
Ok so my friend and I went to canvas one Saturday afternoon in this mobile home park.  It wasn’t bad on the way in, fairly clean, no menacing...
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mina-romerstein's picture
Nov.20.2008
Yes! Yes!! Yesterday I made it to the 30k for NaNo (wipes brow) and it was hard! But....I found a plot. It's common and real and I think it can...
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former member's picture
Nov.20.2008
by former member
Tangible evidence of deflation? The prices of commodities, houses and a wide range of consumer goods have collapsed, with observers predicting...
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whitney-mckim's picture
Nov.20.2008
Yesterday, I went to do a little bit of writing at the local Starbucks. It's warm and cozy there, they have good sandwiches, and ample caffeinated...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Nov.20.2008
The sky is still a sullen grey though on my bog walk this morning I watched a shadow fall slowly away from a green hillside way off in the distance ...
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whitney-mckim's picture
Nov.20.2008
Hey WriMos! The guys down at NaNoHeadquarters have turned on the Mighty Word Count Validator a little early this year. When I discovered it (via a...
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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.