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Jun.10.2010
Right after dusk, the pair of loons on our lake began wailing and caterwauling: not the mellow, slightly melancholy "coul-ee" song that we'...
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Jun.15.2010
I threaded my way toward the crest of the knoll through a dog hair of scrawny aspens.  From the top I looked out over an open grove of paper birch,...
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Jun.21.2010
Years later, facing a mid-afternoon geometry of Dakota highways, I remember my father telling us about how he would sit on the deck of his ship and...
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Aug.03.2010
Western tanagers nested this summer in one of the big Douglas fir trees in front of our cabin.  Tanagers are a tropical clan -- Robert Ridgely's...
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Sep.02.2010
A writer friend of mine is also quite serious and earnest about her photography.  I've never been particularly impressed by any of the images she's...
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Sep.16.2010
On September days when the wind is from the north, I can't stay inside.  The sky that blows down from Canada holds the blue of the arctic, distilled...
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Sep.22.2010
Moonlight is absolute.  Its blue glow admits no half tones, no grays: landscapes are reduced to light and shadow.  As precise as printing on a page,...
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Oct.04.2010
Like most animals, dogs lead their lives through a jungle of sensory stimulation.  Completely open to the world that surrounds them, they are...
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Oct.07.2010
 She went to the women’s tent at the new moon although she was not bleeding: it was her usual time and she didn't want to give rumor to the gossips...
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Oct.27.2010
Mario Vargas Llosa, this year's Nobel laureate in literature, is not only a hell of a good storyteller, but he's also one of the most reflexive...
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Jan.16.2010
Have you ever gotten an idea for a book, essay, article, or blog post, and simply sat down and began writing? When the so-called "light bulb...
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Oct.18.2009
Today is the first day of the Daughter Am I blog tour, and frankly, I’m a bit nervous. Although I always intended to post to my own blog every day, I...
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Apr.21.2009
The Barnes & Noble in Cary, NC, has graciously offered to make signed and personalized copies of any and all of my books available for ordering...
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christine-hamm's picture
Jan.14.2011
My Overdose Not like a river. Not like flying. Not a good taste, anywhere. Not dark. Not like a tunnel, not like a train coming out of that tunnel...
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elizabeth-baines's picture
Jun.15.2009
Not sure why I haven't been blogging much in the last few days - ah, yes, I remember, I was writing a story. On Friday I was so immersed in it and...
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Feb.23.2010
  The best managers in Bay Area baseball history? Bill Rigney, Dick Williams, Tony LaRussa, Dusty Baker, Mark Marquess…   Mark Marquess?!   Mark...
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Jul.03.2010
This is insane. This is an actual CBS poll of Obama, not a conservative poll. Look at these ratings. He has no chance of being re-elected if this is...
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Jan.31.2011
In early 1942 the Allies decided to give priority to the European theater. Germany could take over the entire world if they turned the continent into...
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May.15.2013
If hard work is a factor, UCLA is in very good hands with Lavin, Saia and Spencer.               Coach Pete...
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Jul.02.2010
I made my own book trailer, which is somewhat unexpected. There’s sometimes a perception that writers are luddites. But I’ve always been a closet...
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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.