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susan-browne's picture
Aug.17.2008
Last spring, I joined a tennis team.  Our team's home court is at Davie Stadium in Oakland.  Actually, half of the property is in Piedmont.  Davie is...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Aug.17.2008
New to Red Room is poet Scott Holstad (www.redroom.com/author/scott-c-holstad).  His take is very different than mine, but I have always admired his...
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jane-ganahl's picture
Aug.17.2008
  As always, I'm late on the draw here. But I wanted to let you know that a week or so ago, I had a fun post on HuffPo, the Mecca of great blogging....
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anne-brooke's picture
Aug.17.2008
Well, gosh, Love and Other Demons was certainly an experience. Not one we particularly enjoyed, alas. Although the weather was kind and our picnic...
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joelle-martin's picture
Aug.17.2008
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. "~ Mark Twain "Go not to the elves for counsel, for they...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Aug.17.2008
I have a theory about marriage in these days of longevity.  Yes, I know this won't be a popular idea, but here's what I think.  We live much longer...
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scott-c-holstad's picture
Aug.17.2008
While just playing around on the Net, I came across something both bizarre and interesting. Let me back up for a minute. The publishers of my books...
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gail-konop-baker's picture
Aug.17.2008
I know the word cancer scares people. It scares me. But that is part of the reason I wrote this memoir, to try to de-stigmatize cancer for other...
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craig-mcdonald's picture
Aug.17.2008
The coming Labor Day weekend marks the 73rd anniversary of the Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935 — still the most powerful hurricane to strike the...
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gabriella-hewitt's picture
Aug.17.2008
I’m not going back to the States this summer, which means I’m so not loving life. Japan is hot and sticky in August. Add in three boys, an apartment...
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delia-cabe's picture
Oct.31.2008
Since my days with Gary, I have been fascinated with memory--how the brain processes memory and how our memories define ourselves. Awhile ago, I came...
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stan-johnson's picture
Oct.31.2008
Okay it is the morning of 10/31/08.  The late great Oscar Peterson’s version of On Green Dolphin Street is playing in the background on XM’s Real...
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roy-steves's picture
Oct.31.2008
For a guy who apparently draws stick figures for a living, the chap that creates the web comic xkcd (pronounced by saying the letters) has an amazing...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.31.2008
I love libraries and librarians.  It is unbelievably wonderful to me that I can walk into my local library, borrow almost as many books as I want (...
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carol-blaney's picture
Oct.31.2008
MESSY art is what this is.  messy like painting with honey. then rolling in it like a dog not caring about the sticky result.  ok i said it. ...
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julianne-mooney's picture
Oct.31.2008
 I started a writing course and in the first week they mentioned NaNoWriMo 2008. I was intrigued, as writing a book in a month is a feat in itself....
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anna-alves's picture
Oct.31.2008
I'm supposed to be doing my Flash Fiction homework. Am terribly behind on reading my classmates' work and NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. I haven't done...
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tegugecko's picture
Oct.31.2008
My first novel has just been completed and I've been shopping it around, but I have decided to take a month off an get started on the second novel in...
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whitney-mckim's picture
Oct.31.2008
The time of reckless novel writing is almost upon us! Happy NaNoWriMo Eve!!! And on this spectacular eve, I'm having second thoughts about my novel...
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ernest-yungsi's picture
Oct.31.2008
Chapter One It began like any other day- with a terrible hang over from too much drinking after new year's day party. I managed to crawl out of bed...
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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.