Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Tell Them To Go Fly A Kite
Jul 01, 2014
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I’ve just finished an article in Harper’s about people who serve as life coaches. Though largely unschooled and uncredentialed, these folks make a living advising others on how to conduct their lives. “Why didn’t I think of that?” I asked myself as I put the magazine aside
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An Idea That’s Come Of Age
Jun 30, 2014
Last week I had coffee with a contemporary. She’s been a journalist for many years and though she’s in her 70s, she keeps current on trends. Even so, she’s uncertain about whether or not she can get comfortable in a world without personal privacy. “I’m not sure I regret
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Goodbye Loehmann’s
Jun 27, 2014
Moving from a home to a retirement center requires planning, not the least of which is getting rid of items that once seemed necessary. Though I haven’t been in the public eye for years, I still own evening clothes, not because I think I’ll ever need them but because they’
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Anatomy Of A Play III
Jun 26, 2014
My last entry concerning my play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast (Blog 5/15/14) ended with my description of how I leapt from my chair when the Executive Director of Post5 Theatre invited me to meet him. Arriving at the designated location, I was greeted by a tall, golden-haired y
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Finding The Proper Guru
Jun 25, 2014
Is it me or does anyone else see irony in the way we humans wring our hands over climate change but do little about it while at the same time, we expend great amounts of energy to preserve our health? Today there are electronic gadgets that measure every facet of our anatomy, our he
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Wake Up Call For The Common Man
Jun 24, 2014
One defense people make for big government is that it serves as a counterweight to big business. Unfortunately, the last tax-payer bailout of the automobile and bank industries gives little support to that argument. What’s more, recent revelations in Luke Harding’s new book, T
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The Wonder Of Science
Jun 23, 2014
I admire science. Because of it, we no longer live in caves or worry about why the sun sometimes goes dark. I’m curious, however, about what attracts a scientist’s attention. Writer Ray Bradbury wrote that to touch a scientist is to touch a child which means, I suppose, that
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What Will We Do For An Encore?
Jun 20, 2014
Writer Evgeny Morozov has given thought to the way collecting personal data on the internet has changed marketing strategies. Based on our web searches, we consumers are targeted with messages that encourage us to spend more and more. (“The Mall,” by Evgeny Morozov, The New Repu
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No Apology Is Needed
Jun 19, 2014
In “Hollywood and Divine,” James Wolcott ruminates on the pluses and minuses of giving television fans what they want. (Vanity Fair, June 2014, pgs. 68-73.) While considering the question, he explores some of the more popular programs since Twin Peaks and the X-File — stor
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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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