Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
On Parting
Jul 17, 2017
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Yesterday my neighbor of almost twenty years moved away. She was a paranoid schizophrenic who often fought taking her medications. Sometimes, during a fearful spell, she’d call to ask me to sit with her. I watched, sometimes for hours, while she wept, or laughed or ranted about bein
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A Farewell To Mat
Jul 14, 2017
A FAREWELL TO MAT, Bodacious Scurvy is dead. Bodacious is an alley cat that appears in my book, Heart Land. He was my neighbor’s cat in truth, saved from the streets ten years ago. I heard the tears in the woman’s voice when she phoned to say she’d had to put him down. She was g
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Quick Thoughts About Slow Movements
Jul 13, 2017
QUICK THOUGHTS ABOUT SLOW MOVEMENTS Saturday morning, I took my walk in the park nearby my home. The temperature was forecast to rise above 90 degrees, so a number of people were exercising or walking their dogs while it was cool. Under a stand of trees, a group had gathered to prac
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For Charles And All The Other Books
Jul 12, 2017
FOR CHARLES AND ALL THE OTHER BOOKS I had lunch this week with a former student. He’s in his sixties now, so we go back a long way. I met him when I was twenty-eight and he was a callow youth of sixteen, sprawling his legs under a desk in my English class. I liked his wry humor and
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Winnie The Pooh And Betty Lou
Jul 11, 2017
WINNIE THE POOH AND BETTY LOU I began the week by repairing a rag doll. The cloth was so old and rotted I couldn’t stitch the tear. I had to find a square of cloth to prevent the stuffing from falling out. The doll had been given to me when I was five. I remember the occasion becaus
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Thank You, Christine
Jul 10, 2017
“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”* My former student from South Africa is coming to visit. Having stood fixedly before my computer, pouring out nonsense or no-sense 5 days a week for the last 7-and-a- quarter years, I’m going to take a holiday. I shall be absent from my p
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Jul 07, 2017
I recently acquired a Facebook contact who quotes the Bible daily. As I am an atheist, I’m puzzled by his reason for seeking me out. Perhaps he hopes to save my soul. More likely, however, he added my name to his list through a mutual friend. For reasons I find unfathomable, s
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Teeth: The Gaps In Our Health Care System
Jul 06, 2017
When I negotiated for a teachers’ union, years ago, I avoided the trap of arguing with School Board members about where to find money for health care or salary adjustments. I insisted the district reset its priorities. That’s why I turn a deaf ear when Republicans say there is
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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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