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chris-rodell's picture
May.16.2013
  (834 words) I’m becoming convinced God won’t let me succeed because my story would be a terrible example to the youth of America. And in a...
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orna-b-raz's picture
May.16.2013
My response to Red Room's challenge to blog about the best parenting advice: Parents are forever giving needed and unneeded advice to their children...
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farzana-versey's picture
May.02.2013
I could taste the loss in her voice. Her “Hello..." lingered. It wasn't like her, even though she spoke the same words. The way she always responded...
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lucille-lang-day's picture
May.16.2013
An article about my memoir, Married at Fourteen, and its nomination for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction appears in the...
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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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david-moolten's picture
Jan.15.2010
  When my children were younger they frequently interrogated me regarding my favorites.  Favorite color, favorite cookie, favorite monster etc...
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eva-schlesinger's picture
May.07.2013
The Royal We went to a diner specializing in homemade waffles. I eyed the choices--pecan waffles, walnut waffles, waffles with sliced strawberries or...
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michael-barry's picture
May.16.2013
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michael-barry's picture
May.20.2013
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rina-macasaet's picture
May.13.2013
“You forgot how to dress up mom.” “I don’t like my top let me get rid of it!” “There’s nothing wrong with your top mom, it’s your shoes.” Sigh. “Your...
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andrew-q-lam's picture
Sep.30.2010
There's a moment from many years ago that remains indelible on my mind. I don’t remember much on our way there to Waterloo, except that the...
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clinton-fein's picture
Jan.18.2008
It’s difficult to express the ire I felt encountering the San Francisco Chronicle’s headline and accompanying article on Tuesday morning written by...
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tim-wise's picture
Oct.23.2008
Being criticized for the things you say, when you're a writer, is to be expected. It's part of the gig, so to speak, and so most of the time, when...
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kevin-arnold's picture
Dec.10.2009
Even if it weren't initially written as a preface to The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" would continue to be widely...
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amy-king's picture
Oct.05.2008
Roland Barthes might be found chuckling in his grave this morning at all of the poet egos lamenting, laughing over, or wringing their hands about a...
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tim-wise's picture
Mar.21.2012
  By now, you probably know the shameful details, but they are worth repeating, in any event. On the evening of February 26, George Zimmerman, a...
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james-buchanan's picture
Nov.23.2008
Describing sex or writing in a sexual way can give a story a little more to draw the eye in as we all know that titilating the reader is really the...
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naseem-rakha's picture
Jan.15.2012
Good news! JK Rowling must write more about the Wizarding World.  Why? Because as friend and writer Jessica Morrell says, "heros need to be...
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naseem-rakha's picture
Jan.15.2012
Good news! JK Rowling must write more about the Wizarding World.  Why? Because as friend and writer Jessica Morrell says, "heros need to be...
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eleanor-cooney's picture
Mar.16.2013
It's the tenth anniversary of "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Where we were and what we were doing as the momentum to war built and built is burned into...
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