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dr-steve-mcswain's picture
May.14.2013
How do I know when I am advancing on the spiritual path? What is a “sign” of spiritual maturity? I would answer that question as many spiritual...
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michael-seidel's picture
May.14.2013
Work is quiet.  Few emails arrive each day.  Meetings are few, with three this morning before 7:30 and nothing since.  Rumors bubble...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jul.30.2008
  Kathy Levine is back! You're probably thinking hey, who is Kathy Levine? Ah, gentle readers, that is proof you have a life. Unlike me...
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bruce-douglas-reeves's picture
Nov.04.2012
Beautiful?  Other people had called Delphine beautiful for as long as she could remember.  Yes, she was slim and black-haired, with the...
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bruce-douglas-reeves's picture
Mar.14.2013
            The Palace of the Maharaja of X was going to be our home for the next few nights,...
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moni-schott's picture
May.08.2013
Judgement yearns for Empathy, an intense yearning that makes him feel things in his heart and solar plexus that he doesn’t understand, and because of...
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monty-heying's picture
May.11.2013
The Great Gatsby was written before gay liberation, a time when homosexuality was not only condemned socially, but was actually illegal througout...
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sean-jackson's picture
May.13.2013
My young life begins in the last dregs of a darkness. Deep wood walls and ugly shag carpet, snowy Portland in winter sun that at its best can only...
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edward-averill's picture
May.13.2013
Being the technophiliac that I am, I've been trying to find a way to 'upgrade' from my venerable pen-and-paper note-taking device to something a bit...
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red-room-parlor-tricks's picture
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.