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The Customer Rules
Dec 01, 2014
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Sometimes we think we know the meaning of a word only to discover we don’t. Take the word monopoly. It used to mean a business large enough to eliminate its competitors. When that happens, we expect goods and services to go up. But, as Franklin Foer writes in a recent essay,
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Possible Chaos In Wonderland
Nov 28, 2014
A blog reader sent me a news clipping from the October 14, 2014 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The article reviews two books where the authors take differing positions on the importance of grammar and style. (“Book Review: ‘Gwynne’s Grammar’ N.M. Gwynne & ‘The Sen
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Science, Fiction’s Handmaiden
Nov 26, 2014
In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne imagined deep water submarines. In I, Robot, Isaac Asimov dreamed of machines with personalities. J. K. Rowling envisioned an invisibility cloak in Harry Potter. Why take note of this? Because, so often, fiction imagines po
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Too Young To Wed
Nov 25, 2014
In the early 1970s, I worked hard to pass an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that would grant women equal protection under the law. The movement didn’t succeed and today, many of my sex feel such a law is unnecessary. Happily a few have begun to rethink the question and to reevalua
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What’s It All About, Alfi?
Nov 24, 2014
Recently, a reader sent me a blog by Roy A. Barnes, a writer from southeastern Wyoming who devotes his space to the business of getting published. One of his articles provided definitions, in layman’s terms, of the legal rights publishers seek before printing a work. I thought
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Stranger Than Science Fiction
Nov 21, 2014
I’ve always been fascinated with Astronomy. As a teenager I helped put together a monthly astronomer’s newsletter supported by the Griffith Park Observatory in Southern California and meant for amateur enthusiasts. When I got to college my interests took a different turn, bu
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Looking For The Magic
Nov 20, 2014
The other evening, PBS news featured an interview with Lev Grossman who has published the 3rd book in his fantasy trilogy. The new title is, The Magician’s Land. What’s interesting about the author’s work is that it’s targeted to adults rather than to young readers. Gros
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Hope To Die
Nov 19, 2014
In the September 17 issue of Atlantic Monthly, physician Zeke Emanuel explains why he hopes to die by the age of 75. His reasoning is that by 75, he will have “made whatever contributions, important or not, I am going to make.” He complains that our society is stretching life
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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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