Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Harry Potter v. Doctrine of Discovery
May 30, 2024
I threw a DVD of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” into my player last night. I needed a touch of innocence to block out the television news. Hard to accept but the real world had grown more fantastical, dark, and insane, than makebelieve. In the episode I selected,
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The Masculine Mystique
May 23, 2024
Weaving in and out of the lunch tables at the retirement center one afternoon, I paused to sit beside a woman I hadn’t seen for a while. Looking up from her book, she frowned. “Do you know the meaning of viand?” she asked. Wondering if hers was a trick question, I answered t
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Humans, Too Clever By Half
May 16, 2024
The Heritage Foundation believes it knows what’s good for America. That’s why I paused to read Kevin D. Robert’s Forward to its latest manifesto, Project 2025. Should Donald Trump be elected our President in November, Robert’s introduction to the document summarizes the chan
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Another Year!
May 09, 2024
Gone fishing for the day. Celebrating 13 years of blogging and 12 years of Just Read It video book interviews. I’m back next week. Thank you, readers!
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Finding The Golden Mean
May 02, 2024
My U. S. Senator voted against the Ukrainian-Istreal aid package that Congress passed recently. He said he opposed it because of Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct in the Gaza war. I like my Senator. Nonetheless, I sent him an email that accused him of being long on principle, but s
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The U. S. As A Public Library
Apr 25, 2024
Google sent out a 3-page, single-spaced summary of their revised terms of service the other day. Frankly, I’d rather read instructions for giving myself an enema. Plowing through the document’s legaleze is pointless. What voice do I have to make changes? None. Besides, Google as
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The Truth Is The Truth
Apr 18, 2024
She’s a star within the Evangelical community, but I won’t identify her for reasons that will become clear. We met decades ago when I was an elected official. Though I am an atheist, I treated members of the religious right with the same courtesy I gave to Mothers Against Drunk
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A Curmudgeon In The Family Of Man
Apr 11, 2024
I was grateful to my neighbor for helping me with a technical problem. He’s the resident guru on computers at the retirement center and far too modest about himself. Aware that I might need his advice in the future, I asked if he’d care to adopt me despite my advanced age. A s
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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