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Aug.31.2008
THIS IS A FATHER
by Robert Sward
This is a Father Where are you going? That you don’t know, do you? Yes, it’s me. Who else would it be? You think I don’t see what you’re up to? Wait...
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Aug.31.2008
Soul Retrieval
by Robert Sward
Soul RetrievAL Podiatrist Father: “Up here they got Soul Retrieval. Lucky for you, son, lucky I’m dead. That’s right. I know some people....
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Aug.30.2008
The Big Switcheroo
by Gerard Jones
In less than a week, John McCain and Barack Obama have pulled one of the most remarkable role switches in my political memory. For months, McCain...
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Aug.30.2008
Bloggerish and Gibberish
by Terence Clarke
In the history of literature, the letter has been a very important element. Epistolary exchange has shed light on the lives of most of the important...
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Aug.30.2008
Cool Jew Book Tour
by Lisa Alcalay Klug
It's three days to launch and Cool Jew Book is hitting the road... we'll be spreading the good word across the United States and Canada for many...
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Aug.30.2008
Constantine's Sword
by Darlene Arden
I somehow missed reading James Carroll's book, "Constantine's Sword," but today I saw the film.  A friend and I were going to see "...
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Aug.30.2008
Chosing a title
by Brenda Webster
When I was down to a final draft of my new novel, I started thinking of titles. In a week I'd covered pages of contenders.This novel was especially...
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Aug.30.2008
Reading about it later
by Fran Moreland Johns
What with the Olympics, the conventions and other breaking news these days, there seems an awful lot of TV-watching going on. I don’t do TV very well...
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Aug.30.2008
Rocky Horror Will Never Die
by Ericka Lutz
Way back when, we used to dress up and come into the city on Saturday nights for the midnight Rocky Horror Picture Show. We were in high school. We...
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Aug.30.2008
New Museum Brings the War Home
by Mary Bergin
Think about war as an extreme intrusion that involves family as much as fight. Upheavals emerge close to home and on faraway battlefields. You and...
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Nov.06.2008
Nano Day 6
by Heidi Norrod
Well, its day 6 and I have completed over half of the required 50k. I'm at 25,100. The story is starting to put out nicely and is pulling together in...
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Nov.06.2008
GROCERY SHOPPING GETS IN THE WAY...OR BLESSINGS ABOUND!
by Love Babz
I had the best intentions of writing today...you know string some words together to form a sentence or two, maybe a paragraph. Oh NO! I had grocery...
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Nov.06.2008
Morning Day 7
by Beth Snowberger
Good morning. The entry I wrote yesterday seems not to have saved, but the upshot was Hooray Obama, Boo Writer's Block.  I had a terrible time...
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Nov.06.2008
Nearing the end of Week 1 for NaNoWriMo 2008
by Alison Walkley
My first run at this and it's going fairly well. I figure that I need to write about 12,500 words per week. I started really writing Nov. 2 and now,...
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Nov.06.2008
November 6
by Joanne McGonagle
Today while typing, the words just seem to flow for almost two hours.  The story just seemed to keep coming to me while I was typing.  I was  tired...
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Nov.06.2008
Coming Soon: Guest Bloggers
by former member
Yep. That's it. That's the challenge. Go to a yoga class. Just one. Write it up and we'll slap it up on the site. Our first(but not our only) guest...
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Nov.06.2008
Experiencing First Novel: Report One
by Gallia Georg
I have just set up my profile at NaNoWriMo site after I registered there yesterday. Here is the link to it, http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/457824...
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Nov.06.2008
Honoring Change :: Keep it Going
by Lina Ru
I just wrote a poem honoring change through a political campaign. If you truly believe Obama is here to bring change, please read it. Change is not...
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Nov.06.2008
No Thank You
by Laura Radcliff
We have a new president and I am overjoyed.  It is important that I put this down before time passes and I never get it done.  I canvassed the...
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former member's picture
Nov.06.2008
John Leonard, literary critic, died today at 69.
by former member
John Leonard is dead. A literary prodigy at thirty-two when asked to edit the New York Times Book Review, Leonard oversaw the NYTBR's glory days...
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