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patti-lawson's picture
Jul.28.2008
       Sadie and I sold our house. The packing, scavenging for boxes, sales, and decisions seemed like they would never end, but they did and there...
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april-sinclair's picture
Jul.28.2008
I spent a restless night listening to mice or rats doing their best to knaw through a plastic mask that I had propped up against a hole inside my...
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shaun-d-landry's picture
Jul.27.2008
When I first got on the Redroom as a completely unplublished writer/rabid blogger the overwhelming welcome was warm, genuine and wonderful. A year...
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aliza-sherman's picture
Jul.27.2008
Book projects are on hold for now. I have a slew of blog posts, columns and articles I need to write each week and each month for a variety of...
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alan-black's picture
Jul.27.2008
  Inevitably, soccer provides the only hope. Rumors abound that FIFA, the world's soccer body, is considering  a proposal to host the World Cup...
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corinne-heather-copnick's picture
Jul.27.2008
Repositioning one's home office means going though a lot of papers. What to discard and what to keep? In the midst of the chaos, I came across a...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jul.27.2008
So, once the Woo Woo Witch Doctor cured my incurable chronic intestinal issues, I went wild. Cheese! Garlic! Bread! What...? I never told you about...
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alex-grant's picture
Jul.27.2008
All I'm doing here is posting one great poem every day(not mine, obviously) and attempting to summarize the key elements that I think make the poem...
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alex-grant's picture
Jul.27.2008
Today we passed through an unmapped wormhole, which had the disturbing effect of sending us into a time-loop - we'd get so far along, then things...
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mary-bergin's picture
Jul.27.2008
The handwritten sign says “Rock Island Café,” and the only thing on the menu is fresh berries during this time of year. The sequence begins with...
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former member's picture
Oct.08.2008
by former member
"The arts are more dangerous [than other professions] because they require sensitivity to a large extent ... If you go too far you can pay a...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.08.2008
Yesterday I got an automated voicemail reminder, telling me of an appointment at such-and-such an address and at such-and-such a time.  The problem...
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edmund-jenks's picture
Oct.07.2008
Gov. Palin and Katie Couric get real and adorable in this Saturday Night Live skit featuring Tina Fey as Palin and Amy Pouler as Couric (Ctrl/Click...
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jeya-lakshmi's picture
Oct.07.2008
Venture capital is a type of private equity capital typically provided to immature, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a...
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former member's picture
Oct.07.2008
by former member
I felt bad for John McCain tonight.  Not so bad that I would ever consider voting for him but bad nonetheless.  He looked far less like a life-long...
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former member's picture
Oct.07.2008
by former member
“I have seen many Anne Franks in Cambodia. ...Under Pol Pot, many children were separated from their families. They faced starvation and were sent to...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.07.2008
The debate is almost over.  It's hard for me to watch these because I keep talking back to the Republicans, but I watch anyway, with lots of warning...
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jorge-richard-guerrero's picture
Oct.07.2008
Let’s learn how to count in Iluko.  Maysa        -  One Dua            -  Two Tallo          -  Three Uppat         -  Four Lima          -  Five...
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michael-boehm's picture
Oct.07.2008
So it appears now that thinking too much is considered a mental illness.  I suppose it had to happen.  There are forces in our society driving us to...
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candie-white's picture
Oct.07.2008
Today while my partner, Stephanie was at the grocery store she had three people, senior citizens, all ask her if she was voting for Sarah Palin. Not...
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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.