Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Tale Of Two Women
May 25, 2015
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The last time Hillary Clinton ran for president, I worked so many long hours for her, she sent me a signed thank you note. When she lost, I was heartbroken. This upcoming election, I will support her again, but given a choice, I’d prefer to support Elizabeth Warren. I admire t
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Why Do Writers Write?
May 22, 2015
I came across an essay about writers and silence the other day, written by Tillie Olsen in 1965 and reprinted in Harper’s Magazine in May of this year. (“Ways of Being Silent,” by Tillie Olsen, Harper’s Magazine, May 2015, pg. 25) The theme is one I’ve considered of late (
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Thoughts On Cake
May 21, 2015
In a recent celebrity interview, actress Candice Bergen, when asked if she had a motto in life, answered, “Eat dessert first.” (“Proust Questionnaire,” Vanity Fair, May 2015, pg. 174.) I laughed because hers was a philosophy I could espouse. Yes, I know pleasure as an end
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Thoughts On Being Certain
May 19, 2015
Not long ago a blog reader unsubscribed because he was furious that I would write about investing in oil stocks. (Blog 3/30/15) I wrote back saying that I didn’t think a bet on whether or not a company’s fortunes would rise or fall had much affect on the melting of the polar i
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A Real Live Doll, Almost
May 18, 2015
If a robot can become a financial planner, (Blog 4/15/15) can other robotic services be far behind? House cleaning is a candidate. A personal secretary is likely. Maybe even a cook. How about emotional needs where touch is so important?. (Blog 4/22/15). Yes, I’m alluding t
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Syria’s Monuments Men
May 15, 2015
“Next to oil, looting is the best-paying sector for Isis…” admits Michael Danti of the U. S. State Department Syrian Heritage initiative. (“Syria’s Monuments Men” by Bryan Schatz, Mother Jones, May/June 2015, pg. 12.) What the terrorists don’t destroy, they allow l
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Thinking Twice About Doing Good
May 14, 2015
It read like a mystery thriller, the story one of my former students, now an attorney, related to me over afternoon tea. During the Vietnam war, she had been active in the antiwar movement and had risen to the defense of several prisoners, calling for social reform. Unfortunately
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Long Live The Human Spirit
May 13, 2015
Checking my email this morning, I found a message from a blog reader which wasn’t his usual fare. Instead of an article about writing, he’d sent me an ACLU petition in support of a state House Bill to secure a citizen’s right to film or take pictures of police actions. The c
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The M.F.A — Worth The Money?
May 12, 2015
A reader sent me a New York Times article about the pluses and minus of earning a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.). (Click) I put the article aside for a while as I admit, I’m ambivalent about the subject. Setting standards for creativity strikes me as an oxymoron. N
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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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