Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
No Substitute For A Hug
May 11, 2023
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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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Gone Fishing Once Again
May 04, 2023
May marks the 12th anniversary of publishing this blog. Thank you, readers, for staying with me. It also marks 11 years of producing the book talk show, Just Read It. Who knew that together we had such staying power? In June, look for the unveiling of the book cover for my mem
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Peon To The Analog World
Apr 27, 2023
The email read, “Sorry. Those sweatpants are sold out. Do you want to order another style?” My answer was, “No.” But I thanked my friend who’d been willing to use her Nordstrom membership to shop for me electronically. I’d wanted to avoid opening an account of my own w
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A Masculine Irony
Apr 20, 2023
The young woman seated opposite me at the restaurant was an orphan. A few months earlier, her mother had died of cancer. Her father had departed this earth years earlier after a fall from a ladder. Both parents I’d known since college, a bookish pair who remained in the same four-st
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The Way Of The Bear
Apr 13, 2023
Anne Hillerman’s 8th book in her mystery series featuring Navajo detectives Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito is a page-turner. Taking it to bed thinking you’ll drop off to sleep is a mistake. Instead, you’ll find yourself reading until the morning’s light. Set in Utah
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Truth Or Consequences
Apr 06, 2023
Shakespeare created problems when he wrote Hamlet’s line, “…thinking makes it so.” (Act II, Scene, 2) Pastor Ben Huelskapm seems to take the words literally. His op-ed declares, Let’s be clear, transgender women are women and transgender men are men. Hard stop. If thinki
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Perchance To Dream #17
Mar 30, 2023
When an email with an attachment popped up on my computer screen, I snapped to attention. The message was from a New York book agent. I’d queried the woman about my memoir Getting Lost to Find Home two years ago. Having heard nothing, I’d written her off. Yet, the email’
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Ruminations On Sex And Gender
Mar 23, 2023
I came across an acronym recently which puzzled me. Someone critical of J. K. Rowling’s position on transgender women accused the writer of being TERF. I had to look up the term and found it means activists who seek to limit full equality for transgender people and exclud
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On International Women’s Day
Mar 16, 2023
The 1972 film, The Candidate starred Robert Redford as a neophyte California politician running for the U. S. Senate. Scripted in documentary format, viewers get an up-close look at the twists, turns, and disappointments of running for public office. Fortunately, Redford’s character
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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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