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mary-lynn-i-archibald's picture
Jun.03.2008
I have wedged myself into my daughter's L.A. studio apartment (which she shares with a very large dog), and am now trying to debrief and make sense...
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dale-estey's picture
Jun.03.2008
A burrow offers security and comfort, and Kafka found both in his sister's tiny house on the Golden Lane. Ottla - his sister - had rented it so she...
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angela-k-nickerson's picture
Jun.03.2008
This week I am recounting the beginnings of my travel obsession. The story begins here. On Monday, June 5, 1989 “the adventure of my life” began....
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ellen-sussman's picture
Jun.03.2008
I've sworn I wouldn't do it. I feel like I'm stepping into dangerous territory -- blogdom. If I start, will it suck up all my time and energy and...
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blair-kilpatrick's picture
Jun.03.2008
Red Room author Doreen Orion's "Queen of the Road" is officially out today! Congratulations, Doreen! Happy book launch! I've been...
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ericka-lutz's picture
Jun.03.2008
I love to read out loud, and I love being read to. We come from thousands of years of oral tradition, and it's deep in our souls. Hearing stories is...
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nell-minow's picture
Jun.03.2008
Maybe it's just too much exposure to commercials for Bridezilla, a sort of WWE with smackdowns between maniacal brides and their wedding planners,...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jun.03.2008
Most of the children of my friends have lived some pretty good lives.  Yes, there have travails and issues and troubled times, but most of this group...
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nell-minow's picture
Jun.03.2008
Nina Paley, who bills herself as “America’s best-loved unknown cartoonist” is the artist/writer/director behind a smart, funny, visually stunning new...
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dave-donelson's picture
Jun.03.2008
For $10, you can buy a net and save a life. It’s so easy a child can do it and many are, according to the New York Times. The $10 mosquito net—a...
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former member's picture
Jun.29.2008
by former member
A lot of people ask me to critique their writing and even more pay me to do so. Some of it is good, some is mediocre, and some is abominable (and no...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jun.29.2008
Today is the Gay Pride parade in the City. Some years I go to see everything, because everyone is so happy. People are dancing in the streets,...
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joseph-john's picture
Jun.29.2008
In my post about agent response time to query letters, I stated that it generally takes an agent two to three months to respond to a query letter. I...
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g-lyles's picture
Jun.29.2008
As we move into the next phase of American history, there is an untold story of a people too depressed, oppressed, and frankly plagued by an ignorant...
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rachel-cutler's picture
Jun.29.2008
Is the book I've been trying to read since Christmas.  Terry Goodkind, Confessor.  I am the mother of a 13 month old little girl.  She's the light of...
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d-j-russell's picture
Jun.28.2008
I can only kneel with bended knee at the feet of writers such as James Patterson, Stephen King,, Dean Koontz, etc.  They carve from silken marble the...
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former member's picture
Jun.28.2008
by former member
A picture's supposedly worth a thousand words. Here are thousands-of-words worth of Harpo Marx (of the Marx Bros.) making his gookie face, one of his...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jun.28.2008
A couple of months back there was a Pickles cartoon where Earl finally gets a new chair. He decides to put his old chair on the road so someone can...
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doris-collier's picture
Jun.28.2008
I couldn't sleep, so I decided to explain a poem of mine. I do not wish to be viewed as a Neanderthal therefore I have to reveal through blogging a...
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brian-mckee's picture
Jun.27.2008
The world obsesses over good and bad, good and evil, and right and wrong, but what do those words actually mean? Have you ever considered how people...
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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.