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tammy-yee's picture
Sep.29.2009
"Nobody but a reader ever became a writer, and nobody but a very good reader ever became an editor."   ~Richard Peck Full...
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Oct.25.2009
  Go forth, ye pilgrims, to Chichen Itzá and Tikal in search of Mayan prophecy and New Age Rapture, so that ye may spare we skeptics the...
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Oct.29.2009
A month ago, I wrote about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Absolutists believe campaign finance reform is in violation of the...
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tammy-yee's picture
Dec.11.2009
We ought to learn a thing or two from the Brits. First Susan Boyle, now Paddy Jones, a 75-year-old grandmother who blew away judges with her victory...
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Jul.09.2010
"A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his...
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Nov.30.2010
"I think that people at the high end, people like myself, should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it...The...
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Nov.30.2010
  Charles is less popular than the Queen. Andrew cusses about journalists interfering with international trade deals. Kim Jong Il drinks...
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tammy-yee's picture
Dec.16.2010
Here's a solution to those intrusive full body scanners proposed by the TSA. Stop by your friendly airport Burger King and buy pancakes to hide...
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tammy-yee's picture
Mar.29.2011
"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream    A recently published study in...
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tammy-yee's picture
May.03.2011
CNN correspondent Ali Velshi got jostled by the fist-pumping, flag-waving crowd at Ground Zero and there I was, barely able to muster a "what...
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cliff-burns's picture
Jan.12.2011
Finally getting back into gear again, writing-wise.  The end of the year is always hectic as I tie up loose ends and prepare for new projects. In the...
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Don surath's picture
Oct.14.2009
The Wizard of Oz has always been one of my top ten favorite movies. Then I met my future wife Susana and her Cairn Terrier Artemus.  This incredible...
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Jul.01.2010
A minor expansion of an earlier blog post, now appearing at The Nervous Breakdown: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2010/07/cheating-at-...
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Aug.19.2011
For this link for the backstory, and check the news today for the outcome.
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Oct.04.2011
so far, everything possible has gone wrong, but here's hoping it is going to get better... Too exhausted to write more than that right now.
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Dec.09.2011
No, I'm not talking about acid, gang! My stash ran out years ago!! I'm talking about yet another trip away from home. I'm off to Mayfield,...
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Dec.15.2011
I am back from Kentucky and it was quite a success on so many levels. Not the least of which was learning how to drive over bridges without...
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Jan.08.2012
This piece in the New York Times Book Review section today was just beautiful. It captures an era, a world, a life in publishing that is totally,...
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Jan.15.2012
First of all, allow me to get political on you. If you, like moi, find yourself stupidly busy these days with little inclination to extend even a...
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Jun.02.2012
First of all, for any of you who missed Michael Hemmingson's interview with me and would still like to hear it (there is no video portion), the...
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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.