Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Whimper of Cynics
Sep 13, 2013
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I have a Facebook acquaintance who attempts to pass for a curmudgeon but I have unmasked him. He’s an optimist. He’s like a man standing on the roof of a tall building, threatening suicide, secretly hoping to be rescued. True pessimists sit behind locked doors and quit eating. O
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Nailing The Hyppocrites
Sep 12, 2013
I sat down to tea with a woman who’d retired recently. She was the daughter of a dear friend, now deceased, and so we walked down memory lane together, recollecting her mother’s life as a homemaker. As the 93rd anniversary of the Women’s Rights Amendment (August 18, 1920) had ju
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Dealing With Demons
Sep 11, 2013
A while ago, I wrote about a former neighbor who suffered with paranoid schizophrenia. On her good days we had wonderful conversations. She was a gifted poet and had earned a M.A. in Fine Arts from a prestigious university. On her bad days, she knew my door was open if she wanted my h
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Good News
Sep 10, 2013
In 1947, before I was a teenager, I saw a movie, Good News, staring June Allyson and Peter Lawford. The story was the traditional one about a college football hero who meets a librarian and decides to sweep her off her size 3 shoes. Allyson is reluctant, at first, and rebuffs Lawford
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A Virtual Will
Sep 09, 2013
Not long ago I entered my Facebook “friends” list to delete the name of someone I’d known for years but who had died. His photograph on the website showed him looking vibrant and happy, so it was difficult for me to hit the delete button. If I did, I felt I’d be responsible fo
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Crime And Punishment
Sep 06, 2013
I ran across a footnote in a magazine the other day that provided some stunning information. FBI Agents gave their informants permission to break the law at least 5658 time is 2011, authorizing everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials and plot
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Sep 05, 2013
In the 1970’s one of my jobs as head of my union was to lobby the legislature on education bills. My first time out I met with the Oregon Speaker of the House, and she didn’t mince words. Instead of waiting for me to explain my legislation, she asked, “Who’s your opposition?
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Woman — Still Cloaked In The Feminine Mystique
Sep 04, 2013
I’ve been invited to be a panelist at a women’s conference in November. Four generations of participants will discuss how the women’s movement has changed their lives. I represent the past, of course, so I decided to refresh my memory by rereading Betty Friedan’s seminal book,
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The Danger Of A Higher Purpose
Sep 03, 2013
“Apparently, the Marine Corps thinks a ‘lack or loss of spiritual faith’ could be dangerous.” So writes Dana Liebelson in an article for Yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/u-military-problem-atheists-065000534.html. The inference is part of a Marine training document that has b
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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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