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tayari-jones's picture
Mar.25.2011
If you have been following this blog, you know it has been a very very long road..... Excerpt From Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
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tayari-jones's picture
Feb.10.2012
I was recently attending the meeting of a book club that had chosen Silver Sparrow as their monthly selection.  One of the questions raised in...
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holly-b-clegg's picture
Apr.27.2011
Have you ever decided you were going to start eating healthier, but weren't sure where to begin? To make it simple, all you have to remember is to...
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sherrie-theriault's picture
May.11.2013
  May 11       Out Standing in My Field       Trying to remove expectations is like trying to unseed a field; it...
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sherrie-theriault's picture
May.13.2013
  May 13     Be That Girl     I have tried to protect the investment I made in the past by selling the soul of my future....
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walter-rimler's picture
Dec.31.2011
  This song, marked “Slowly, with much expression," was introduced by Kenny Baker (making hamburgers in a diner) in The Goldwyn Follies, a film...
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deborah-lindquist's picture
Jul.17.2012
You're getting married and friends and family members all seem to have opinions about what you should wear and how to plan everything. How do you...
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bob-mustin's picture
May.18.2013
The Mind of the South, by W.J. Cash   This book was written some 75 years ago, and it’s amazing to me how closely Southern attitudes, the...
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rina-macasaet's picture
May.20.2013
  I spent the day at the Spa. Waiting for exam results can be draining! I presented my case about two weeks ago. Passing would certify me as a...
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sean-jackson's picture
May.16.2013
You never want to be somebody’s story. From the days when we have to start having to wear shoes, we are taught that growing up means we cultivate...
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khaled-hosseini's picture
Dec.03.2007
I write in the very early hours of the morning. Typically I get up at around 4 a.m., have cereal, read the San Francisco Chronicle, and heat up some...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Jul.23.2011
I recently met a writer friend, Gary Phillips, at Versailles, a fabulous Cuban restaurant in Los Angeles where a mixture of citrus juices slam into...
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christopher-meeks's picture
Jul.23.2011
I recently met a writer friend, Gary Phillips, at Versailles, a fabulous Cuban restaurant in Los Angeles where a mixture of citrus juices slam into...
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brian-mckee's picture
Sep.24.2009
I've been thinking about a dreaded type of personality I've met many times in my life. In fact I was one once, perhaps that's why I know them so well...
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phil-bronstein's picture
Apr.21.2009
Waterboarding is for amateurs. This weekend, I visited the reconstruction of a medieval castle in Calistoga, imported by vintner Daryl Sattui brick-...
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terence-clarke's picture
Mar.09.2008
11Tengo hambre de tu boca, de tu voz, de tu pelo y por las calles voy sin nutrirme, callado, no me sostiene el pan, el alba me desquicia, busco el...
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eleanor-cooney's picture
Nov.24.2011
So read the hand-lettered sign near the hulking incinerator by Highway 101 just south of Cloverdale, California. Those of us who live north of...
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ishmael-reed's picture
Aug.02.2011
Kit Carson is described as a mountain man, an explorer, a scout, a soldier, a transcontinental courier and a general. He is the hero of movies like...
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tim-wise's picture
Nov.10.2008
My political entry into the left (and by this I mean the real left, beyond the Democratic Party) came a little more than twenty years ago in New...
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kelly-tweeddale's picture
Oct.23.2012
I am a dandelion stalk,barren and still stripped of its many wishes. I let go of each wish, one by onereleasing my hold on its fantasy. “Letting go...
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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.