Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Memoirs and Memories
Feb 28, 2013
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Laser printing has lowered the cost of book publishing for everyone. In the case of fiction, that may be a bad thing because the market is flooded with some pretty awful writing, even from the main stream press. But in the case of memoirs, I make an exception. Almost everyone has a st
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I Earned the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval When I Decided I Didn’t Need It.
Feb 27, 2013
I’m going to let the subscription of another women’s magazine expire when it comes due. The repetitious information I can live without — just as I can live without those little subscription cards that keep falling from the pages or the constant renewal reminders stuffed into
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Betting on Marshmallows
Feb 26, 2013
The more science learns about human beings, the more puzzling we seem to be. For years, the assumption has been that the ability to postpone gratification was a better predictor of future success than IQ. (“Headlines,” by Simon Makin, Scientific Mind, March/April 2012, pg. 8) The
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How Can a Particle be a Wave?
Feb 25, 2013
A friend recommended a new science book to me, The Particle at the End of the Universe, by Sean Carroll. I’m 50 pages in to it, but I’m so excited about what I’ve learned so far that I have to share. Unlike Jim Holt, author of Why Does the World Exist?, which I’ve touched upon
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Rozencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead, But Not Tom Stoppard
Feb 22, 2013
I’m struggling to complete my 4th novel. I thought I’d finished it, but something doesn’t feel right. Unlike my third novel, Trompe l’Oeil, where each character is driven by a desire to obtain something from life which life refuses to give, the latest work is even more charact
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Money Will Buy Everything, Almost
Feb 21, 2013
I’m sure I could assert “there is a book written for every topic under the sun,” without fear of contradiction. Why not? There are as many books written as there are people on the planet. Even so, the range of subjects can surprise me. Browsing through my latest copy of Town&a
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Too Big to Fail or Too Big a Subsidy?
Feb 20, 2013
In a recent interview, a high ranking official in the Justice Department conceded that “some financial institutions are too large and too complex to be held accountable before the law.” (Reprint of Simon Johnson article, Bloomberg.com in, The Week, 2/15/13 pg. 34) The source claim
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Memorial to the Last of the Bricks and Mortar Bookstores
Feb 19, 2013
Talk to owners of small bookstores about business and the reply is usually tentative. They are grateful to have a business but uncertain about the future. So far the stores in my neighborhood are hanging on, particularly if they sell used books as well as new, I try to support these e
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Feb 18, 2013
I’ve received a couple of advertisements recently for screenwriting classes. The classes must be popular because I occasionally run into an acquaintance who’s taken one and tells me his classmates gave him rave reviews for his script. I always offer a pat on the back to these budd
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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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