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These Huddled Masses
Oct 02, 2017
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Daily, Donald Trump, the Tweeterer- in-chief exposes himself as a twit and commentators are loving it. I can’t keep up with the jokes memorializing this humorless man. Here’s a sample from the October issue of Vanity Fair. “Trump has made Russia Great again; Trump is a che
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Evangelicals — A Dying Gasp
Sep 27, 2017
When I was a youngster, one of my scariest memories was a scene from Snow White. The huntsman’s shadow falling over the princess with a dagger was not it. Nor was it the scene where the queen tempts her stepdaughter with a poisoned apple. What made me shiver was the old woma
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Everyone Has A Story To Tell
Sep 26, 2017
No long after I moved into my retirement center, I found myself visiting a new friend in the assisted living section. As he and I talked, a woman joined us. I judged her to be in her 90s, though she had the svelte body of a dancer and a pretty face. I asked if she’d ever bee
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Don’t Run, Walker
Sep 25, 2017
The hiatus from my blog, gave me a little time to observe the comings and goings of my fellow inmates at the retirement center. One or two had dropped from the scene, literally, having taken unexpected falls that required surgery or prolonged bed rest. I saved another from a similar f
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That Is The Question
Sep 22, 2017
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a memoir. Not the story of my life. Nothing is so extraordinary in my existence that it merits a book. But a booklet about my four years abroad might be of interest to others. I left for Europe in the early 1960s and returned nearly fo
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A Walk On The Dark Side
Sep 21, 2017
One of the important issues in the 21st Century is how to preserve personal privacy. Microsoft, for example, is offering Windows 10 for free but in exchange, its default setting gives the software permission to “pass your data to Microsoft’s servers, gobble up your bandwidth and p
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Making Dad Proud
Sep 20, 2017
A while ago, I wrote a blog mourning the passing of Tony Hillerman (9/25/12) and how, unlike him, many writers of mystery novels give us complex plots but protagonists with little depth. They forget readers have to care about their sleuths, enough to make them flinch when the door to
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Quilt Story
Sep 19, 2017
Turning the last page of the August edition of Money Magazine, I noticed an article, “Money Well Spent,” written by a quilter, Cindy Dawn. (2015 pg. 84). In 1983, while doing her military service in Germany, she stumbled upon the sale of a Pfaff sewing machine. She was 24 and hadn
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Too Tartt For Me
Sep 18, 2017
Recently, I discovered that on Amazon’s book rankings, the works of John Keats and William Wordsworth are listed 796,426 and 2,337,250 respectively, only slightly higher than mine. (“Counter Culture,” by Caleb Crain, Harper’s, July 2015 pg.82.) Naturally, I, a modest wr
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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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