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May.25.2013
I know, long time no blog! Bad me, it took a while to recover from my vacation and birthday (heh, don't ask) and then I had...
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May.13.2013
The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velázquez that hangs in a gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is surrounded...
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Sep.12.2012
If you’re an author, traditionally or self-published, you can now sell your eBooks on Red Room! Plus, if you’re a Premium Member...
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May.18.2013
by Jane Wilson
Two of my favorite characters are Miss Spinster and Judge I.M. Oldenbald. I like them because they wear the same clothes much of...
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May.19.2013
In a recent post on The Red Room, Orna B. Raz makes a very interesting case for the fiction writer’s ability to...
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May.21.2013
by moni schott
I’m lucky. I feel lucky today, with sun streaming to one side of me, radiating onto my hand as it meanders across this page, and...
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May.18.2013
With 23 years between my two children, I entered a different world in 1995 when my second child was born, of the demands...
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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.
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Sep.12.2008
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Jan.29.2009
From my January 27 column on tips for using the dictionary:
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