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terry-spear's picture
May.18.2013
   Loved the lily pond and the focal point--the beautiful flower.  And here, the pansies were covered in raindrops. And so...
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bill-hayes's picture
May.18.2013
For years, I've been carrying around in my head thoughts, observations, and personal tips on exercise. I've started to keep a list--one a day until...
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shaun-d-landry's picture
May.18.2013
Umbrella Gate:  Something that is nothing to keep your mind off of anything important.   Well thank god for hardcore conservatives and Tea...
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dr-steve-mcswain's picture
May.17.2013
This article is currently featured in the Huffington Post. If you would like to read it there, follow the attached link:  http://www....
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mary-akers's picture
May.17.2013
For the next two weeks, Amazon is featuring the non-fiction book I co-authored and it's available on Kindle for only $2.99!! Please help spread the...
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nathan-burgoine's picture
May.17.2013
VACATION! As of 9:20p, I was out the door and off work for a week. Houston, New Orleans, fun, friends, literature... Oh, how I can't wait. I...
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beverley-bie-brahic's picture
May.17.2013
I'm thinking I may have to join to Facebook to keep track of my kids' lives. "Did you see the bike picture?" I ask younger daughter, who hadn't let...
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louise-b-nayer's picture
May.17.2013
    Perhaps one of the greatest fears of retiring is THE VOID. What do we go to next? Some definitions of the void contain the words...
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robert-earle's picture
May.17.2013
  Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré is a novel about a Russian money-launderer (Dima) who seeks the help of a friendly British couple (Perry...
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jill-jepson's picture
May.17.2013
I was tempted to title this post “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” because that’s exactly how I’m feeling this week. When I’m writing for...
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john-jay-licata's picture
May.18.2013
 From Seattle ...  Comes a Populist. "Boss Man Office Man"  Make a cake / Bake a cake / Banker Man / Makin' mortgage money - ...
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john-jay-licata's picture
May.18.2013
Oh, America! / Where has your muscle gone? / For thin-legged office men / Build houses of paper / And their Paper Tygers / Peddle futures against the...
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john-jay-licata's picture
May.18.2013
One hundred men / Of Wall Street / Control ten trillion dollars. / They didn’t dig the well, / But they surely drink its waters. / Citizen...
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jane-wilson's picture
May.18.2013
Two of my favorite characters are Miss Spinster and Judge I.M. Oldenbald. I like them because they wear the same clothes much of the time. Judge...
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jane-wilson's picture
May.18.2013
  There is a method to the madness that affects writers. It's recorded on crumbling papyrus and stored securely in a box that is padlocked,...
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sherrie-theriault's picture
May.18.2013
  May 18       Pearly Whites   Reaction is a separation, a polarization; it cuts you from me and God from we.  Response...
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catherine-nagle's picture
May.18.2013
  With 23 years between my two children, I entered a different world in 1995 when my second child was born, of the demands and responsibilities...
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phil-naessens's picture
May.18.2013
Zach Greinke is back, the Oakland A's have major pitching woes and the New York Mets suck.....joining host Phil Naessens are Eric Stephen from...
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kelly-tweeddale's picture
May.17.2013
I've written about training for a marathon and no matter how I try, I struggle at pacing myself.  My body is geared to want to reach for the...
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mark-hunter's picture
May.17.2013
For those of you who have Facebook, here’s the event page for the Albion Fire Department’s 125th anniversary celebration on July 20th:   https...
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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.