Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Too Young To Wed
Nov 25, 2014
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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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How Isis Runs
Nov 18, 2014
I admit I have little knowledge about Muslims or their faith. At best, I brushed shoulders with a few while traveling in East Africa. My most memorable encounter was with my safari guide in Uganda. During one of our many chats, he mentioned a custom in his country that obliged a w
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Dawkins Versus A Gray Area
Nov 17, 2014
Richard Dawkins has published the first of his two part memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, and John Gray, emeritus professor of European thought at the London School of Economics, has taken the work apart with surgical deftness. He depicts Dawkins as a man who is facile in his thinking
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Facebook’s Brave New World
Nov 13, 2014
We have a new reason “to despise Facebook,” says Jay Barmann of SFirst.com. (“Talking Points,” The Week, October 3. 2014 pg. 16) The company has long had a policy that requires users to subscribe under their real names. But what’s in a name some Drag Queens are beginni
Continue Reading →A Blogger’s Life
Nov 12, 2014
One of my blog readers sent me a writer’s comment on the art of blogging. Barry Ritholtz has been producing a financial blog, Big Picture for over 10 years. As chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management and the author of Bailout Nation, the writer has credentials whi
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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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