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naseem-rakha's picture
Apr.09.2013
My experiences related to the canyon have been on the order of a spiritual awakening which has left me as porous as the canyon's sedimentary strata,...
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eva-schlesinger's picture
Apr.28.2013
In what was a culinary first for pastry chefs everywhere, Baking Expert Chef E has done it again. Chef E, who trained at the renowned Munchy Punchy...
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patricia-lantz's picture
Apr.30.2013
I remember May Day fun, all of us kids smiling and laughing, holding onto ribbons, dancing around a decorated pole, going over and under the ribbons...
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steven-robert-travers's picture
Apr.30.2013
  Alexander the Great was said to be gay. The homosexual lobby recruited Michelangelo as one of their own, but his posthumous outing is...
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sarah-stone's picture
Apr.30.2013
When I'm at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference, or reading The Writer's Chronicle, I'm always amazed by how beautifully...
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manny-pacheco's picture
May.01.2013
The child star who began her cinematic career appearing with Judy Garland in an MGM two-reeler has passed away. Deanna Durbin shared screen time with...
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katherine-gregor's picture
May.05.2013
“What does he think I am? A baby?” Deep embarrassment was making me peevish.  I did not want my mother, grandmother – and, especially, the...
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orna-b-raz's picture
May.06.2013
 I heard a beautiful quote on the radio the other day. One of our major novelists said that writing is a way of correcting insults. I am not...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
May.06.2013
Late Friday I found out there was going to be not one but two hearings concerning the Dome. One I wasn't sure I could make at 7:30, one added at the...
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orna-b-raz's picture
May.08.2013
In time for Mother's Day  a beautiful poem about motherhood. Dahlia Ravikovitch from True Love In Line For A Show Translated by Orna Raz...
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rhonda-frost's picture
Jun.26.2011
The year 2010 was an exciting year for my daughter and me. We had just finished writing our first book, "Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man?", it...
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marissa-mullins's picture
Apr.10.2011
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw of his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked...
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heather-catherine-hogan's picture
Mar.24.2009
My girlfriend text me the other day asking me if I thought a person can be in love with two people at the same time.  As you could imagine  the texts...
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kemble-scott's picture
Oct.30.2008
    There’s been a lot of talk about “God’s will” and the upcoming vote on California’s Proposition 8.     The latest to invoke God in trying to get...
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brenda-webster's picture
Jul.22.2008
The account of a female professor giving up her job and her man in order to live sexually free following Blake's vision of jealousyless relations...
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tim-wise's picture
Nov.25.2008
I have to admit, I was disappointed. After all, to hear lots of folks tell it we are now living in "post-racial America," all because...
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alexandra-sokoloff's picture
Sep.15.2008
So you want to know about screenwriting? First, a brief background (and of course you can read more in depth at my website, AlexandraSokoloff.com)....
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tim-wise's picture
Dec.31.2007
Fundie Christians are an interesting bunch. On the one hand, they profess to love God "with all their heart," and yet, on the other, they...
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terence-clarke's picture
Oct.30.2008
Pablo Neruda’s Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Poems of Love, and One Desperate Song) have been translated to English many...
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june-casagrande's picture
Dec.02.2008
This is for Dennis Shay, who's clamoring for more grammar lessons. It's an installment of my weekly grammar column, which ran in October (as will be...
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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.