Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Making Room In Utah,2
Sep 04, 2017
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Walking the streets of my new neighborhood, I saw a sign posted on a telephone pole. The notice announced a tenants’ rent control meeting. I could understand why such a gathering was necessary. Thanks to gentrification, affordable housing has declined at an alarming degree, sh
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A Lesson In How To Avoid Turning Blue
Sep 01, 2017
When I took yoga classes a while ago, the teacher kept reminding her students to breathe. I thought that was strange because breathing is as natural as, well…. breathing. But, Emma Sepala, PhD at Stanford University and co-author of a book on post-traumatic stress affirms that, “t
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Buffalo Bill Is Defunct, Not Dead…Cumming’s Defiance
Aug 31, 2017
“You mustn’t be so open-mined that your brains fall out.” That’s the advice avant garde poet, Marianne Moore once gave to her fellow poet, E. E. Cummings. Whether she had any influence over him or not is unknown but a new biography of the man reveals he was clear about his opi
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I Talk Therefore I Am
Aug 30, 2017
I admit it. I’ve been known to talk to myself. Yesterday, I had to get snarky. Three times I attempted to leave the house and three times, I returned for my keys, my purse and finally, my gloves. Exasperated, I bellowed to the four walls, “Hello Caroline. How about joining the par
Continue Reading →The One True Longing
Aug 29, 2017
The Gap is a new book by Thomas Suddendorf that argues the reason homo sapiens stand intellectually above other animals isn’t a matter of engineering but the results of having outlived our nearest competitors. According to the author, as little as 30,000 years ago, “several specie
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Wonder Woman, Sydney Stevens And I
Aug 28, 2017
Since my brief hiatus in July, when I entertained a former student from South Africa, the last few weeks have been busy. I taped 4 new episodes of Just Read It. (Click) That’s the ten minute book review program I co-host with Susan Stoner, author of the Sage Adair mystery series.
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Ruminations On Having A Sense Of Community
Aug 25, 2017
Donald Trump has probably done more to recruit converts to the political process than any politician in a long time. While his support base remains fixed, those in opposition to his policies are a rising tide. Many of them, as writer E. J. Graff points out, are new to citizen activism
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It Takes A Cutting Table
Aug 23, 2017
Hope springs eternal. While Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un are playing chicken with life on the planet as we know it, two good outcomes follow. First, Trump’s rhetoric diverts us from thinking about his Russia connection, and second, young men, ages 20-25, who want to look good in
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Death As A Growth Industry
Aug 22, 2017
As the saying goes, “It’s an ill wind that blows no good.” Despite the war of nerves Donald Trump is playing with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jung-un, bad political news means good business for some. Since North Korea launched a missile that could reach the United States,
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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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