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Apr.27.2009
  Review from Kristi of Books and Needlepoint She’s fascinated by wolves – but they are obsessed with herTessa Anderson doesn’t know why wolves are...
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pavel-somov's picture
Apr.27.2009
This is a straight-forward "fyi." You can learn to stop a sneeze. There's a basic know-how to this important social grace. Go to: http://...
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simon-haynes's picture
Apr.27.2009
I've been twittering lately, hence the lack of blog posts.   First bit of news: an award! Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch won the WASFF 'Tin...
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ugo-mattei's picture
Apr.27.2009
This conversation on torture is getting to an important point, that of activism and communication. Ultimately, how to construct consciousness of the...
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thaisa-frank's picture
Apr.26.2009
   The day I got the yellow mechanical pencil was the day I became committed to being a writer. I had known I was a writer since I was eight when I...
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belle-yang's picture
Apr.26.2009
Dear Belle, How would you like to have a Big Sur adventure with me?  I have been invited by Erin Gafill to videotape a little bit of Nepenthe's 60th...
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sean-arbabi's picture
Apr.26.2009
Okay, I have to address this - can't keep quiet anymore- need to blow a stack- okay, maybe just vent a tiny little bit on a completely useless photo...
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alex-grant's picture
Apr.26.2009
Removed by author...  
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craig-clevenger's picture
Apr.26.2009
Perhaps not the most pleasant intro to a post, but I thought it best to keep the signals as un-mixed as possible, as soon as possible. In brief, I've...
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michele-chaboudy's picture
Aug.12.2009
I'm joining the entire Red Room community in writing a short blog post on this week's topic: "Heroes." The form and the content of the blog...
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rosemary-dibattista's picture
Aug.12.2009
   I trust that any mother reading the title of this entry gets it completely. When you are the one taking care of people, day in and day out, is it...
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robert-cope's picture
Aug.12.2009
First American in Australia: a true story   Twenty-one years after his arrival in Sydney Australia, unable to read, he was unaware of John...
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barry-eva's picture
Aug.12.2009
Literary Terms and Quotes Last weeks writers help drew quite a few responses so I'd thought I would try some more "literary terms" this...
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beth-mann's picture
Aug.12.2009
1. We Stopped Bagging our Own Groceries Perhaps it was different where you came from, but where I grew up, we worked with the cashier. It was...
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elizabeth-blake-thomas's picture
Aug.12.2009
Cake making, that was the answer. You know the ones with all the frothy icing swirled as high as can possibly be, vanilla or chocolate with all the...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Aug.12.2009
How marvellous it would be to be deemed a hero. Someone admired for his or her outstanding achievements, even to have superhuman qualities that the...
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wendy-braitman's picture
Aug.12.2009
Hazel Bishop had no time for marriage. For years she pulled double duty, as a chemist by day, developing aviation fuel, while in the evenings,...
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christine-podgorski's picture
Aug.12.2009
This is a first time blog.  When I received the invitation from Red Room to write about my hero, I felt compelled to do so.  Bear with me.  I usually...
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lia-keyes's picture
Aug.12.2009
Knowing that my story is getting closer to completion, my agent told me she'd like to start some pre-submission buzz for A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS,...
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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.