Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
When Punishment Doesn’t Fit The Crime
Aug 07, 2014
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While I was in public life, a judge appeared before me and my fellow commissioners to complain that he’d sentenced a man to 10 consecutive weekends in the county jail but that our facility was so overcrowded, the offender had been turned away each time. The judge glared at the 5 c
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The Intentional Fallacy
Aug 05, 2014
One of my favorite cartoonists, Jules Feiffer, has turned 85 and recently published his first graphic novel, Kill My Mother. Because the book departs from his usual satirical expression and ventures into tragicomedy, an interviewer asked how the cartoonist arrived at his plot. Fei
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Beware The Bandersnatch
Aug 04, 2014
A pet peeve of mine is “the critic,” even though I might qualify as one because I’ve scribbled a few lines about a book or two. But I’m not talking about ordinary people expressing an opinion. I’m talking about professionals who make a living posturing as literary expe
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A New Key To Genetic Coding: Broccoli
Aug 01, 2014
Periodically, over the years, a group of former political colleagues and I have gathered for lunch to share the events in our lives and the latest political gossip. The restaurant where we used to meet was known for serving healthy, organic foods but we didn’t go there for the men
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Meditation About Walls
Jul 31, 2014
On October 26, 1971, Claire Booth Luce — former member of Congress, Ambassador to Italy, advisor to Presidents, author of several books and the successful play, The Women, as well as being a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor — found herself on a platform wit
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A Strong Warning
Jul 30, 2014
Winning the Pulitzer Prize won’t ensure a writer respect from a certain cadre of critics, those who owe their high perches to their employment rather than to any literary achievement. For good or ill, these arbitrators of taste imagine they determine what passes for fine literat
Continue Reading →Anatomy Of A Play – Part IV
Jul 29, 2014
When I last wrote about my play, I’d emailed the manuscript to the Artistic Director of the Post5 Theatre. Soon after, I was assailed by doubts. Maybe I’d sent it too soon, without checking for typing errors, or dropped lines or the need to rewrite entire scenes. Dou
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It’s A Whole New World
Jul 28, 2014
I doubt many would be surprised to learn that the processes of investigation and revelation occur in different parts of the brain. Investigation involves a system of methodical trial and error while revelation is an “ah ha” moment that comes at the speed of light, as if a switch
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Need For A National Conversation About Money
Jul 25, 2014
Unlike the past when technology eliminated some jobs but created others, the trend in innovation today is toward job elimination. (“In the Future, Will There be Any Work Left for People to do?” by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June 16, 2014, pgs. 193-200.) According to writer Geoff Col
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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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