Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Wake Up Call For The Common Man
Jun 24, 2014
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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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Young Blood
Jun 18, 2014
The other day at the mall, I was buying postage stamps from the same woman who’s been behind the counter of the little shop for years. The place is usually busy so we’ve never stopped to chat, but on that day, she and I were alone. As I handed her the money for my purchase
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Let Woebegon
Jun 17, 2014
If a reader of this blog has never listened to the radio broadcast, A Prairie Home Companion and heard Garrison Keillor’s stories of Lake Wobegon, I urge you to remedy the situation. Keillor is part of a long and illustrious line of American humorists of the 20-21st Century that s
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Freedom Has A Price
Jun 16, 2014
I have long been an admirer of the cold war’s great strategist, George Frost Kennan (See blog 1/4/2012). He was the mastermind behind the policy of Russian containment after World War II and among the first to see that the atomic bomb had irrevocably changed the politics of war.
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The Wages Of Sin
Jun 13, 2014
Recently, the sultan of Brunei decreed that the country will return to the harshest form of Islamic Sharia law, a ruling to be imposed upon Christians and Buddhists alike who make up 30% of the country’s population. Besides jailing and flogging, limb amputations will be imposed
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Of Failure And Thoroughbreds
Jun 11, 2014
Today I’m uncertain about whether or not I’ve done a good thing or a bad thing. A friend has completed his second novel and I have encouraged him to send it out to publishers. His first book was self-published and he seemed happy enough with that launch, so who am I to interfe
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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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