Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Happy Fourth of July Week
Jul 06, 2023
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A Fly Buzzed When…
Jun 29, 2023
The fly sitting in the staircase window of my retirement center has been dead for several months. Unlike me, most folks don’t use the back exit to reach ground level. They prefer the elevator. I may be the only person in the building to bear witness to the insect’s slow deca
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Learning From The Apes
Jun 22, 2023
In 2011, Lara Logan, a CBS reporter, was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square covering the Arab Spring celebration– the peaceful overthrow of Hosni Murbaraks’ military dictatorship. The crowd was jubilant as they sang and danced in the streets, so the reporter was surprised when her
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In Search Of Meaning
Jun 15, 2023
The woman on Facebook said I didn’t understand her comment and accused me of being sarcastic. I thought I was engaging in subtle teaching. She needed to see what she’d written made no sense and that blaming others for misunderstanding her wasn’t kosher. The person who send
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The One True Thing
Jun 08, 2023
Before he took his life to escape the ravages of ALS, a gentleman with a wicked sense of humor shared this thought about his neighbor: She is a woman of strong opinions—most of them wrong. A little wicked myself, I laughed but felt guilty afterward. Even so, the witticism was apt.
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THE COVER REVEAL
Jun 01, 2023
Advance reader praise for Gettling Lost to Find Home. from Anne Hillerman, Author of the Chee/Leaphorn/Manuelito mysteries including The Way of the Bear, 2023 Caroline Miller has gifted us with a compelling story full of hope, adventure, and friendship. She offers an intimate look
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Fate Lies Not In Our Stars
May 25, 2023
“I’m back to magical thinking,” the woman emailed. She was expecting a devastating medical report after a series of tests. The reply I sent back came after a moment of pondering. “I’m imagining the doctors have misread the original data. It happened to me.” To give false h
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The Art Of Self Destruction
May 18, 2023
The two tall men pulled out chairs on either side of me as we sat at the lunch table. Former colleagues from my political days, Covid had severed our connection three years ago. Now we were reviving the contact. Happily, both men looked well though one admitted he was struggling w
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No Substitute For A Hug
May 11, 2023
The email came as a disappointment. My friend had come down with Covid. That meant a reading of his short stories, both a public and Zoom event, was canceled. For two decades, I’d encouraged his writing, so I was looking forward to the occasion. Twelve years my junior, I knew my
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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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