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jt-ellison's picture
Aug.08.2008
Home is where the heart is, right? I've been thinking about what "home" means to me lately. The past few weeks on Facebook, I've had a run...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Aug.08.2008
Imagine this dystopic existence: What if you couldn't pick the soundtrack to your life? What if the songs that ran through your head your whole life...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Aug.08.2008
A few years back, John Updike was a guest of the University of Tennessee.   He volunteered to come over and speak informally to the English...
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bill-schmalfeldt's picture
Aug.08.2008
Hey, Buddy... can you stop a second? Yeah.  You.  Can I talk to you for a minute? No!  Don't look at me like that.   GET BACK HERE!  Don't walk away...
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diane-chamberlain's picture
Aug.08.2008
My neighborhood bookclub met tonight to discuss Julie and Julia, by Julie Powell. (For those of you who don't know, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Powell...
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anne-brooke's picture
Aug.08.2008
Last day before our holiday today, hurrah! So I'd really better go and pack soon. For those of you keen on Norfolk, we'll be stayinghere for a few...
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jeffrey-ricker's picture
Aug.08.2008
...over here,you'll see the cover of the anthology (co-edited by two people whom I admire greatly) in which one of my stories will appear. Not only...
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bill-schmalfeldt's picture
Aug.08.2008
Goodness!  Brett Favre's been a New York Jet for a bit more than 24 hours already, and THEY HAVEN'T WON A SUPER BOWL YET??? No wonder the New York...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Aug.08.2008
I have a couple of friends right now who are going through the mid-life dating ritual, and they've asked me for advice.  The problem for me is that I...
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robert-todd-felton's picture
Aug.08.2008
I finished my work sooner than expected yesterday and so was able to join my wife and a <!--break-->friend of hers (and seven kids) at Chatham'...
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maxine-p-soso's picture
Oct.25.2008
Let me gently caressyour grace, space and intellectwith the magnitude of my auraYour presence enticesdices and spicesmy inner being to unwindlet go...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Oct.25.2008
This morning my younger teen held open the refrigerator door and peered inside for sometime before announcing in a panic laden voice that we were...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.25.2008
I worked with pregnant teenagers and young women for about six years.  Never mind the precise circumstances, but that was the population I dealt with...
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maxine-p-soso's picture
Oct.25.2008
Your eyes comprisea lullabyof musical madnessAnd, seductive warmthwhich heightens my sensitivity factoruniquely interruptingmy chain of...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.25.2008
How on earth can Alan Greenspan be shocked to find out that there is greed and self-interest in the business world?  What planet has he been living...
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Afrasiab's picture
Oct.25.2008
  INTRODUCTION Born Marshall Bruce Mathers III on October 17, 1972, in Kansas City, Missouri. Spent childhood moving back and forth between Kansas...
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mariya-masha-kurgatnikov's picture
Oct.25.2008
When darkness falls, From madness no escape, Imagination has no boundaries, Reality, no shape...
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former member's picture
Oct.24.2008
by former member
Seven Close calls in the Nuclear Age
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Oct.24.2008
I'm addicted to this new dashboard deal. Now I can see how many visits I have to my blog, and when its has its peaks (anything to do with soaps, Joe...
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red-room-well-red's picture
Oct.24.2008
Whether you’re a successful author about to miss your next book deadline, an aspiring author who’s been “meaning” to write a novel for years, or a...
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