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sherry-parnell's picture
Oct.10.2012
How I love books.  Let me count the ways.  And let Elizabeth Barrett Browning excuse my cheap poetic pilfering.  I love the smell of...
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steven-belanger's picture
Jun.19.2013
Photo: Movie's poster from its Wikipedia page   Do not be swayed by the somewhat negative press surrounding The Man of Steel.  Go see it,...
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ken-hartke's picture
Jun.19.2013
Red Room recently asked about our favorite literary detective.  I've been reading mysteries for a long time. I have a number of favorites but I'...
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kelly-jean-rice's picture
Jun.19.2013
  In the real world, there is no finish. But I hope, and I think we keep on dreaming. And I know for sure that out there somewhere, there are...
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kyle-kendall's picture
Mar.22.2013
Out upon the gathering gloss the shore is a monster, all of my conceptions gather prominence, and all else is inland;  so easily do I find...
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dalton-giesick's picture
May.28.2013
Please feel free to visit author, Dalton Giesick's website at, http://www.daltongiesick.com/ and sign up for his list and receive free...
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terence-clarke's picture
May.30.2013
Among the writers I know, Lewis Hyde's The Gift is almost always required reading. It is a treatise on the differences between gift-giving cultures...
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dr-steve-mcswain's picture
Jun.08.2013
Who Are You? When asked this, how would you respond? I think I will have to respond like this: “When I left America for Europe on my first trip...
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jm-cornwell's picture
Apr.17.2011
Thousands of fans, male and female, have been bombarding, tweeting, and blogging about how wrong Gina Bellafante is when she characterizes “Game of...
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tim-wise's picture
Nov.02.2008
To Whom It May Concern, With so little time remaining before election day, and with so many things running through my mind--things that I'm hoping...
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jon-stewart's picture
Feb.27.2008
Chapter 1 Democracy Before America It is often said that America "invented" democracy. This view is, of course, an understatement; America...
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shaun-d-landry's picture
Nov.25.2011
This story from The Los Angeles Times was inevitable.  As though news reporters are camped out at every Black Friday Sale store waiting for this...
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blair-kilpatrick's picture
May.14.2011
          Last fall, I wrote several posts about the landmark Tarasoff case, which established the duty to warn for mental health professionals.  I...
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eleanor-cooney's picture
Feb.19.2013
(This is an excerpt from the new final chapter in the 2013 Kindle edition of my 2004 memoir, DEATH IN SLOW MOTION) Winter, 2008: I’m driving a stolen...
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dorothy-nixon's picture
Oct.16.2012
  I was awakened today by the sight of blazing morning sunlight on dying autumn leaves. Maple leaves certainly do go out with a bang, not a...
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sandy-o-nathan's picture
Apr.17.2009
Amore et Psyche––Desire and the soul. Today, we'll talk about psyche, the soul. Personality type may seem an abstract and unnecessary...
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tim-wise's picture
Aug.30.2012
It’s official. The symbolic head of the Republican Party is not Ronald Reagan. It’s Pee-Wee Herman. It was Herman after all, as portrayed by comic...
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geling-yan's picture
Jan.14.2008
           Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 天浴 aka Tian Yu, based on Geling Yan's short story "Celestial Bath." Directed by Joan Chen 陳沖....
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geling-yan's picture
Jan.14.2008
           Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 天浴 aka Tian Yu, based on Geling Yan's short story "Celestial Bath." Directed by Joan Chen 陳沖....
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