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Jan.19.2010
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary." -Kahlil Gibran
Inspired by a poem Red Room member Phibby Venable posted in response to last week's My Work blog topic, we asked Red Roomers to blog about their favorite poems. More than eighty took the...
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Jan.10.2010
This week, Red Room asked you to blog on the topic of "My Work." Many of you responded, writing heartfelt essays about your work and your lives.
We've chosen one special writer who blogged to showcase in next week's Blog Topic of the Week email. You'll have to wait until Wednesday to find...
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Jan.05.2010
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote that "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Last week, we asked Red Roomers to blog about happiness. Whether they agreed with Hawthorne about happiness's elusiveness...
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Dec.28.2009
Although the Red Room staff is religiously and philosophically diverse, it turns out we all celebrate Christmas. Whether enjoying Christmas as an atheist California-Jewish family tradition, a time to celebrate excessive Victorian decorating, or as an opportunity to volunteer and reignite our good...
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Dec.22.2009
"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you were a child, how...
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Dec.14.2009
In the famous poem "Stopping By a Woods on a Snowy Evening," Robert Frost's narrator is tempted by the deathly quiet of the wintry woods, but is reminded that life, with its "many promises to keep," still pushes him forward. I don't know if leading with Frost in my email last...
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Dec.01.2009
I've really enjoyed reading your recommendations for a Red Room author's book in the comments below. I hope as you read what other Red Roomers have written, you'll find great gift ideas for every book-lover you know, and maybe a great read for yourself, too.
As a reminder, I asked commenters to...
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Nov.30.2009
Most Americans celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday last Thursday, so here at Red Room, we were thinking about gratitude.
My friend Chris and I recently went to Café Gratitude, a very "San Francisco" restaurant here in San Francisco. We expected to secretly make fun of its hippie vibe. The...
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Nov.23.2009
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This statement contemplating the concept and practice of peace inspired Red Room to ask its bloggers to write last week on the topic of "peace."
Another...
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Nov.15.2009
"Type 'revolution' into a search engine and find a soccer team, a tutoring system, a firm that engages in mergers & acquisitions, kites, pet care products, a music venue, dancewear, a health information database, climbing gear, a restaurant...(a)nd the Communist Party, USA."
- Andrew...
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Nov.08.2009
Red Room loves bookstores, especially independents that have become beloved parts of their local communities. Publisher's Weekly asked Red Room to help celebrate the first-ever National Bookstore Day on November 7th, so we asked the community to blog on the topic "my favorite bookstore."...
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Nov.02.2009
"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble."
–Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1
Halloween has become many countries' most popular occasion to dress up and become, for one night, somebody else. Why do you think a pagan harvest festival turned first into a festival...
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Oct.25.2009
The Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler. The Paris of Ernest Hemingway. The Berlin of Christopher Isherwood. The San Francisco of Dashiell Hammett or Armistead Maupin. The New York of Edith Wharton or Isaac Bashevis Singer. The London of Charles Dickens or Zadie Smith. Anyone who loves writing can't...
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Oct.19.2009
We love reading introductions to blog entries like the one Steven E. Schend wrote in response to our weekly blog topic "The Wizard of Oz":
While I'm technically staying offline this month to get back on deadlines and to reclaim my life from internet-addictions, Baum's book was too important to me...
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Oct.11.2009
Whether we've done it for someone, had it done for us, or been aware of a failure to do so, we're all familiar with situations in which needing to be rescued suddenly seems most important. This week, we asked Red Room to blog about rescue--and we've chosen a few blog posts to highlight:...
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