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judy-merrill-larsen's picture
Jul.30.2008
Twenty-two years and four months ago today, I delivered my first child, a beautiful, tiny, baby boy born in the wee hours (minutes, really) of Easter...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jul.30.2008
Once a few years ago, a friend and I decided we were going to write a screenplay.  We read a few screenplays, read a couple of screenplay books, and...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Jul.30.2008
     When I typed in "Poetry Education," "Sex Education" came up.   I like that.   Might attract more readers to the genre...
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bob-david-calhoun's picture
Jul.30.2008
I wish I had arms like these. No really. This Sean Phillips guy drew me into the newest issue of the Marvel/Icon comic Criminal and he drew me with...
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gregory-wilson's picture
Jul.29.2008
David Anthony Durham just announced that his Acacia series has been optioned to Relativity Media, a major production company (Hellboy II, Hancock,...
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pamela-dennison's picture
Jul.29.2008
Okay, so I just started riding again after a 22 year hiatus. Years ago I rode and competed in Western (owned a horse when I was 16 - "Caballo...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jul.29.2008
I have a great office. It's a yellow bedroom at the top of the house looking north to the Oakland Hills. It's got a futon in it to rest on (I'm a big...
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june-casagrande's picture
Jul.29.2008
Here's my fiction-writing space -- created specificially to encourage me to do more creative writing. Note the near pristine, museum-like atmosphere...
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g-carlos-smith's picture
Jul.29.2008
Thomas Monson, the President and Prophet of the Mormon church and a Utah resident, recently directed members to donate their "means and time...
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brenda-webster's picture
Jul.29.2008
People wanted to hear more about Sarah's writing methods and suicide.  I've just posted her story (Under Stories).  This is the beginning. "Don...
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former member's picture
Oct.12.2008
by former member
20081012.   Today is Canadian Thanksgiving, actually, as my husband refers to it,  a celebration of the annihilation of aboriginal peoples to make...
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lisa-dickson's picture
Oct.12.2008
ADVOCACY: • Foster Care Alumni of America charter member and chapter designee • Leadership role in establishing the first statewide chapter of...
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delia-cabe's picture
Oct.12.2008
New Year's Eve 1997. It's three o'clock in the afternoon and nearly everyone is preparing for the night's celebrations. I picture people buying...
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former member's picture
Oct.12.2008
by former member
I’m running a little Indian for class. I get there, confirm with the nice desk lady that it is still early enough in class to sneak in without...
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former member's picture
Oct.12.2008
by former member
They got one thing authentically Indian: class started late. The teacher had a child care issue or something equally excusable, and so I take it with...
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Strange-Weird-and-Wonderful-Magazine's picture
Oct.12.2008
Just wanted everyone to know that Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine's Winter Submission period will officially open October 16th.  Although we...
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roz-cummins's picture
Oct.11.2008
This week I expect to travel to New York to attend an event where the new lists of what fish can be eaten as sushi in a sustainable manner will be...
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brad-green's picture
Oct.11.2008
Each morning Hector waited, crouched in the bushes along the path to the graveyard, to watch Juanita eat the roses off the old man's grave. Every...
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ferf-ziamond's picture
Oct.11.2008
I'll be ten next week. Happy Birthday?   I'll always remember when our third grade teacher asked us to take an event that made us feel worried...
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ferf-ziamond's picture
Oct.11.2008
A man accompanied by his five year old daughter pulls into a space in the Wal-Mart parking lot."Okay sweetie. Take that seatbelt off."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.