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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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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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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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bernadette-moyer's picture
May.14.2013
Does the Potential for Evil Exist in Everyone By Bernadette A. Moyer You can’t help but be struck by the evil acts of people like the Boston bombers...
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bernadette-moyer's picture
May.14.2013
Does the Potential for Evil Exist in Everyone By Bernadette A. Moyer You can’t help but be struck by the evil acts of people like the Boston bombers...
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sue-glasco's picture
May.18.2013
  With Brianna’s other grandmother, Gma Dot, on one side of me and her mother on the other side, I was fishing for tissues and handing them out...
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katherine-gregor's picture
May.19.2013
In a recent post on The Red Room, Orna B. Raz makes a very interesting case for the fiction writer’s ability to rewrite true life...
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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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rosy-cole's picture
May.19.2013
John Constable (above) Image below courtesy of Chris Ceaser   Imagine an English country lane, in an era before articulated transported, when...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jul.01.2008
In August, I am teaching a class on writing sex scenes for UCLA Extension. Yes, this seems like a very bold thing to try to teach, as a sex scene is...
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david-niall-wilson's picture
Oct.23.2008
She pulled back the curtains and glanced into the backyard. He was out there again. All she could see was his dirty jeans and one arm, the rest of...
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delana-ra-dameron's picture
Aug.23.2008
I spent this summer between two residencies and traveling. I spent this summer writing and writing. At what I thought was the end of my stint with...
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thich-nhat-hanh's picture
Sep.12.2008
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has developed exercises called Mindful Movements. These simple, deep motions, based in...
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vicki-larson's picture
Aug.25.2008
As the book editor (among my many other titles) at the Marin Independent Journal, I've had a lot of anthologies that come across my desk that look at...
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june-casagrande's picture
Jan.29.2009
From my January 27 column on tips for using the dictionary: Is it “I have drunk my coffee” or “I have drank my coffee”? Do you dissociate from...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jul.01.2008
In August, I am teaching a class on writing sex scenes for UCLA Extension. Yes, this seems like a very bold thing to try to teach, as a sex scene is...
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amy-tan's picture
May.17.2009
by Amy Tan
I've been puzzling over the social form known as email.  More often than not, people send me emails addressed with a salutation of the kind used with...
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tim-wise's picture
Sep.13.2008
By Tim Wise For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps...
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tim-wise's picture
Oct.11.2008
For those who have seen the ugliness and heard the vitriol emanating from the mouths of persons attending McCain/Palin rallies this past week--what...
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Oct.21.2008
(Updated August 13, 2011.) What is the Dashboard? The Dashboard serves a sort of “toolbox” for your page that enhances your experience on Red Room....
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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.