Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
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Sep 22, 2014
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Many years ago, I recall listening to a pundit’s warning on the PBS McNeal-Lehrer Report that a time might come when the world would look back upon the simpler days of the cold war when all the United States had to worry about was Soviet containment. Once the shadow of the Russian
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Free To Become Themselves
Sep 19, 2014
In its “Spotlight” column, Vanity Fair featured two actresses of a certain age who seemed to look better over time. Charlotte Rampling was one of them, a woman whose name has become a verb: To rample — meaning “to render a male helpless with a kind of coldly elusive sens
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Making Friends With Big Data
Sep 18, 2014
Many years ago, I was diagnosed with a form of lymphoma for which there was no treatment. At best I was given 5 years to live. To confirm the diagnosis, sample tissues removed from the lump in my body were shipped to medical facilities around the country. The reports came back w
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A Farewell To Summer
Sep 17, 2014
Only a few weeks ago, before school started, the temperature climbed above the hundred mark and turned my thoughts to ice cream. As a child, my mind often wandered in that direction, especially on Saturdays when I’d walked with my mother to the center of town and she’d do a litt
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Of Brussel Sprouts And Kings
Sep 16, 2014
The two years I spent in England were enriching in many ways but gastronomically they were a bust. The English like to boil everything from their laundry to their brussel sprouts which, like their socks, come out of the pot blanched white enough to see through. What they don’t
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We Need A New Jefferson
Sep 15, 2014
What is government for? That’s the central question co-writers Jim Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge explore in their recent article, ”The State of the State.” (Foreign Affairs, July/August, 2014 pgs. 118-132). They begin their quest with a review of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviat
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What Did Mark Twain Say And How Did He Say It?
Sep 12, 2014
Recently, a Facebook friend shared a quote attributed to — but not proven to be — by Mark Twain: “Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” I wrote back that I could make neither heads nor tails of this
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Overwhelming Question
Sep 11, 2014
Some mornings I awake with a deep sense of guilt. The lives of people I have never met are being torn apart by war, their homes bombed, their families separated and many of them killed. Each day the question for them isn’t what movie to see or book to read. The question is how
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Thoughts On Being A Narcissist
Sep 10, 2014
Elizabeth Lunbeck’s new book The Americanization of Narcissism, explores the fault line between healthy and unhealthy narcissism. (Me, Myself, and ID,” by Laura Kipnis, Harper’s Magazine, pgs. 80) In it she explores the question of narcissism’s origin. Is it nurtured by
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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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