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fran-johns's picture
Aug.30.2008
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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ericka-lutz's picture
Aug.30.2008
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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mary-bergin's picture
Aug.30.2008
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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mary-lynn-i-archibald's picture
Aug.30.2008
Where does it come from, and how do we call upon it, nurture it and sustain it? Having taught art and writing for many years, I've come to the...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Aug.30.2008
It's not just that I have a thing for libraries and that I'm married to a librarian, but also I've discovered an interesting literary site--ALMOST as...
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kristina-riggle's picture
Aug.30.2008
I'll miss you, Michael Patterson, though you're only a pen and ink drawing on smudgy newsprint. For as long as I can remember reading the paper, I've...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Aug.30.2008
The first time I saw the movie Parenthood, it was lost on me because I was in the dense moment of being a parent.  For some stupid reason, my former...
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anne-brooke's picture
Aug.30.2008
Really, people, could yesterday get any better after my fabulous hole in one (um, did I mention that already?)?? Well, apparently, yes: when Lord H...
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susan-browne's picture
Aug.30.2008
I once lived in a two-story house that looked like it belonged in Tuscany, but it was in Berkeley.  After a year of dating, this is where Kenneth and...
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farzana-versey's picture
Aug.30.2008
Is it not possible that we are a repressed society because we do not have a liberal porn culture? There is ignorance about the body. It is a...
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joanne-mcgonagle's picture
Nov.06.2008
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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former member's picture
Nov.06.2008
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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gallia-georg's picture
Nov.06.2008
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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lina-ru's picture
Nov.06.2008
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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laura-radcliff's picture
Nov.06.2008
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
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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bryan-linnenkugel's picture
Nov.06.2008
I was wondering if anyone out there has any ideas for getting work noticed... I know that this is a common question from all aspiring writers but I...
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bryan-linnenkugel's picture
Nov.06.2008
It is finally a beautiful morning for him. He drinks coffee and starts his morning,      shaving, shower, assessing his appearance. It has been...
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former member's picture
Nov.06.2008
by former member
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peggy-townsend's picture
Nov.06.2008
   It was a crazy thing to decide to do: to write a novel in 30 days.  I'm in the middle of a non-fiction project, the holidays are coming, and work...
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