Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Thoughts About The Kitchen Table
Nov 30, 2023
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At the retirement center, a woman approached me to compliment a blog I had written. My reply was to shrug and say the words hadn’t amounted to much. Later, I recanted, realizing my false humility had made light of her opinion. To be honest, I’d worked hard on that blog. Wh
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Happpy Thanksgiving World
Nov 23, 2023
Sending the world a message of peace. *Listen to the latest radio interview for “Getting Lost to Find Home” with podcaster Dave Conglaton. &
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A Paeen To Humility
Nov 16, 2023
If life feels frustrating, there’s a reason. Frustration is a condition throughout the universe. Even electrons are vulnerable. Because an imbalance exists between the places for them in one layer of the quantum soup and another, each time the layers interact, the quantum particle
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Ayes On The Prize
Nov 09, 2023
On an upcoming edition of my book talk show, Just Readi It, author Karl Marlantes reveals the struggle he faced to publish the first of his two best-selling novels, Matterhorn. A young man newly returned from the Vietnam War, he was determined to recapture his experience as a soldie
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Fractured Fairy Tales
Nov 02, 2023
Scientists have discovered a way to extract small electrical currents from humid air. They hadn’t meant to do it. A student failed to unplug one of their machines at the end of the day. The next morning, researchers found a spray of microscopic tubes, one-thousandth the diamet
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The Case For Small Measures
Oct 26, 2023
A Chinese proverb about the butterfly effect teaches that small changes can have great consequences. Who would have thought that a farmer drilling a well to tap groundwater for his crops would cause the earth to wobble on its axis? Yet climate scientists report that farmers, towns
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The Revolution Of The Species
Oct 19, 2023
Senator John Fetterman (D) recently shared this observation with the public. You all should need to know that America is not sending their best and brightest to Washington, D. C. Congressional in-fighting, and scandals among the elected elite support the senator’s view.
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The Overthrow Of Reason
Oct 12, 2023
When a high-speed train is barrelling down the track, a person who knows the trestle ahead has been washed away has one obligation–to run in the direction of the impending disaster in the hope of assisting survivors. Those of us who sense our country is nearing a failed state
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Oct 05, 2023
Writing a book is a form of producing life. Like the biological procedure, dealing with afterbirth is tricky. Exposing the fruits of one’s labor to critical appraisal is heart-pounding stuff. The creator adores the offspring, but the eyes of strangers, like a camera, take an obj
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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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