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dale-estey's picture
Jun.12.2008
I visit wharves and gaze out to sea. It is a pleasure which took hold of me some ten years ago. I don't know why, for I certainly had experience with...
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susan-browne's picture
Jun.12.2008
Words.  Books.  I was looking at my bookshelves the other day, astonished at how much I've read in my life.  You'd think I'd be wiser, more...
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lynne-reeves-griffin's picture
Jun.12.2008
Just for a bit of inspiration, I dipped into Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer. Battling a cold, I'd taken to my bed with her book, the novel...
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lynne-reeves-griffin's picture
Jun.12.2008
Last week I finished a first draft of my second novel. Two days after writing the last line, I turned to the first chapter. I had planned to give the...
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angela-k-nickerson's picture
Jun.12.2008
Head over to Grizzled Old Traveler to read Sean's review of A Journey into Michelangelo's Rome: "For travelers who like art, there's a new...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jun.12.2008
I've been thinking about things not very important while on vacation.  Or maybe things that are important but things we don't necessarily want to...
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john-michael-greer's picture
Jun.11.2008
Just posted this week's essay, "Saving Science," on The Archdruid Report.
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julia-flynn-siler's picture
Jun.11.2008
It was hard to escape “Sex and the City” even at the black-tie 2008 James Beard Foundation Awards Ceremony on June 8th at Lincoln Center’s Avery...
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sean-h-taylor's picture
Jun.11.2008
Welcome to my brand-new Red Room site. Give me a few days to get all the bells and whistles nailed in place, and then we'll have everyone over for...
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corinne-heather-copnick's picture
Jun.11.2008
  Personally, I would not like to live in a "retirement" community, where other aging folks reflect back to me on a daily basis the image...
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selene-castrovilla's picture
Jul.21.2008
Word of the Day: Monday, December 25, 2006 Nonplus\non-PLUHS\, transitive verb: To cause to be at a loss as to what to think, say or do; to confound...
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sue-glasco's picture
Jul.20.2008
            One set of grandkids has left, but not before a second set arrived and they had a couple days’ overlap. So I finally was able to carry...
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lynn-liccardo's picture
Jul.20.2008
or the actor. In this case, it's As the World Turn's, Jon Hensley, who's been dodging bullets on the boards since last Thursday's (17 July) big...
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tom-flanders's picture
Jul.20.2008
We've all done it. Thought of the perfect comeback hours after the situation in question has expired. Well today, while working on the third, and...
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former member's picture
Jul.20.2008
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Planting a kiss on the Cuban starlet's cheek is Raymond Scott  -  the man at the centre of the £15million Shakespeare manuscript mystery. He and...
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g-m-shepley's picture
Jul.20.2008
So, I spent last evening playing various Guitar Hero games, and Rock Band. I still have a PS2; just haven't been able to bring myself to spend the...
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former member's picture
Jul.20.2008
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China is making a concerted effort to colonize Africa with dire consequences for Africans. In protest to China's involvement in Darfur's genocide,...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jul.20.2008
  Today is my grandfather's birthday. He would've been ninety-three years old. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him in some way.            ...
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randy-wong's picture
Jul.19.2008
I am sure all of you have heard of the Red Room Writers Workshops. You probably ran into it while looking for or at this site, or maybe you found it...
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former member's picture
Jul.19.2008
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Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura - Akira Yoshimura is a well known writer in his native Japan, but unfortunately, he hasn't gained the recognition he...
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