http://www.redroom.com/member-blog/kristencaven Member's Blog Teaser en http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/the-mills-revolution-20-years-later <p>Twenty years ago the Romanians overthrew their corrupt communist government. Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down, uniting two long-divided worlds. And twenty years ago, students of Mills College revolted against the decision to admit men. I graduated from Mills in 1988, and like the other alumnae (yes, that’s the correct Latin ending for a plural female noun), I wanted to support ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/the-mills-revolution-20-years-later">read more</a></p> http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/the-mills-revolution-20-years-later#comments Bay Area cartoonists cartoon comic memoir coming of age memoirs memoir Mills College Revolutions blog women&#039;s education Women&#039;s History Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:02:53 -0800 kristencaven 166985 at http://www.redroom.com http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/confessions-a-nanowrimo-cheater <p>I am totally cheating on NaNoWriMo! I salute anyone who thinks they can write a novel in a month, but with all my other projects I really need an event to help me crack open my long-languishing novel and &quot;look it in the I&quot; again.It took me many Novembers to get to the 59,000 words I am starting with. The thing will change, I don't know how. The lessons I've learned in the last four ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/confessions-a-nanowrimo-cheater">read more</a></p> http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/confessions-a-nanowrimo-cheater#comments Charlotte Cook Nanowrimo 2009 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:08:57 -0800 kristencaven 164856 at http://www.redroom.com http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/swimming-books <p>Today I took a break from my taxes and went to go shelve books in my son's school library, which had been painted over the summer. Piles of white cardboard boxes, full of hidden treasures, stood in stacks awaiting dispersement by the dozen volunteers huddled at the shelves. I was assigned to the 'B's shelf in Fiction, which included rearranging the 'C's and 'A's to make room. All afternoon I ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/swimming-books">read more</a></p> http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/swimming-books#comments avi betsy byars beverly cleary Judy Blume Library lloyd alexander middle school pearl buck school sixth grade video games volunteering Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:27:39 -0800 kristencaven 111705 at http://www.redroom.com http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/ah-for-rarified-air <p>I finally decided to bite the bullet and join the Red Room Writer's Society. I'd dreamed of it for years... a stately mansion where brilliant minds toil in silence (the clicking of keyboards), monk-like, churning out literature, sharing secret handshakes... sipping cognac afterwards in collegial fraternity...all for the low, low price of $200 a month! (What struggling writer can afford that?) ... </p> <p><a href="http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/ah-for-rarified-air">read more</a></p> http://www.redroom.com/blog/kristencaven/ah-for-rarified-air#comments Red Room Writing Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:36:40 -0800 kristencaven 86985 at http://www.redroom.com