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Oct.07.2012
During the Civil War, communities in both the North and South would gather to read the casualty lists from Gettysburg, Manassas, Antietam. Each...
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Oct.07.2012
The goal of the World Trade Center terrorists may not be political, but it could be religious. The great conflagration religion has warned us about...
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Oct.09.2012
Written four years ago: was it prophetic?   If Barack Obama is the Democrat nominee for President, it could have the potential of becoming a...
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Oct.10.2012
Who we are. How we got here. What history teaches us. Why America is special.   The United States of America is the greatest country in the...
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Oct.11.2012
Americans love to congratulate ourselves on how great we are. On Independence Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and on most any day, we enjoy re-...
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Oct.12.2012
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26, 2001 - I think the point a lot of us have been trying to make for a long time has been missed.  I am sure Gerald Ford...
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Oct.12.2012
On Tim Cook To expect in the mind’s eye, that a Steve Jobs whose no longer with us was a brilliant visionary, but to say he never made a mistake,...
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Oct.13.2012
Note the date on this letter to then-Governor Bush. I was on board with the future President when John McCain was a strong GOP contender, before the...
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Oct.15.2012
The African AIDS crisis leads me to believe that the battle between Good and Evil is being won by Evil.  In the 20th Century, Evil tried a...
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Oct.16.2012
EXCERPT FORM “A TALE OF THREE CITIES: THE 1962 BASEBALL SEASON IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO” By STEVEN TRAVERS   The East-West...
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Mar.11.2009
Yesterday stank.  It just stank.  It felt like someone had discovered a valve in my toe, opened it up, and let all my air leak out.  No energy, no...
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Jun.22.2009
In a nutshell, I'm taking the nanny job instead of the admin job.  There were a lot of reasons but the primary one was that I'd rather care for...
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Jan.14.2010
Talk about unfair:  First you all at Red Room want our favorite bookstore, which was all but impossible, then you ask for a favorite poem?  At least...
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Feb.05.2010
The tall bridge beckons And promises peace As the water below sings its siren song. A
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May.15.2010
I read the news again this morning, checking up for articles about Arizona.  There was one about a rabbi who is calling for people to stop comparing...
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May.21.2010
"During his interview on ABC’s Good Morning America, Paul expressed his opinion that the White House’s commitment to holding BP Plc accountable...
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Jun.30.2010
There are birds in the kitchen.  Not the sort that come from the grocery store, all nicely plucked and butchered, but the other kind--the ones that...
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Aug.19.2010
A bull got over a bullring fence and injured up to forty spectators.  A noble effort, but people are still ahead in overall stats. One newspaper said...
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Jan.01.2011
Thank goodness for new years; they give a way to put closure on bad times or to celebrate good ones.  For me, 2010 pretty much stank and I'm beyond...
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Jan.24.2011
The family situation is unresolved and appears unresolvable, so I'm leaving it alone.  I'm still in contact with one sister and a couple of nieces,...
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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.