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May.10.2012
You know what bugs me? People who make fun of politicians. For that matter, people who get down on lawyers, too, but let me say my piece about...
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May.11.2012
Arnold Schwarzenegger is now in place as Republican Governor, having run the "Total Recall" campaign against Gray Davis. With a $38 billion budget...
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May.12.2012
The big question of the day is whether George W. Bush is unbeatable in 2004. The Democrats offer Vermont Governor Howard Dean as a possible pre-...
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May.13.2012
Woodrow Wilson called it the League of Nations, but the U.S. Senate would not ratify membership. Ever since, America and the League's equally...
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May.14.2012
The author, a former professional pitcher, may well have discovered the mystery of Barry Zito. This is his wake-up call.   GENTRY MAGAZINE http...
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May.14.2012
Author/historian STEVEN TRAVERS, a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School For Communications and Journalism, former...
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May.14.2012
Who is the former Cy Young winner? Multi-millionaire, patriot, Christian, philosopher, devoted son, new husband? Yes.   “The meaning of life? Is...
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May.14.2012
  My high school years at Mater Dei there were other quarterbacks with big names in Southland prep football, like Matt Cassel, Brandon...
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May.15.2012
Above the front entranceway to the IRS, engraved in stone, is the famous line by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized...
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May.16.2012
"Across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith. It cannot withstand truth. It cannot withstand freedom." 6   ...
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Dec.14.2009
SHE WRITES, a terrific site for women writers, asked if I’d like to be included in the group of writers they’ve invited to participate in writing a “...
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Feb.19.2010
According to yesterday's Boston Globe, writing about the Boston Public Library system: Circulation in the system has risen 31 percent in the last...
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Mar.21.2009
As a published and critically praised author, I finally got fed up with battling agents, editors, and publishers. So, at my advanced age, I said good...
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Dec.12.2011
  In the always-summer of July when days stretched as long as the season and sunlight kissed warm even at dusk, this beach was alive with...
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Apr.20.2009
In everything I write I want to create works above all that relate to the general meaning and purpose of life. I wouldn’t necessarily claim to be...
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Aug.31.2009
Yesterday was a low energy day for me, perfect for a day spent running errands and doing the tedious and necessary things in life one must do. Bah....
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Oct.27.2009
Thank you, Queen Louise for doing such a great job filling in yesterday. (I was off conducting cooking experiments under conditions that sort of...
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Jun.18.2010
Back in January, bookseller Elizabeth Bluemle and I had a conversation about white privelege and issues of race in children's publishing and...
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Jun.24.2010
Where will I be during the American Library Association conference in Washington DC this week? Friday June 25th - I'll be hanging around the YALSA...
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Aug.18.2010
You made it through the first week! Most of you. If you were able to write at least 15 minutes a day for the last week then HUZZAH!! What (if...
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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.