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True Lies
Oct 03, 2012
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One normally doesn’t tout the quarterly edition of an alumni magazine as scintillating reading, but I’m often surprised by what I discover in mine. Nestled among the names of those who are working on PhDs, or writing books or having babies, or doing nothing because they have died,
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Gluttony at the Dollar Store
Oct 02, 2012
I’ve been saving money from my sale of used books to buy a secondhand copy of Haruki Murakami’s latest tome, 1Q84. Originally the novel sold for over $30. I’ve saved $12 and hope I can find his masterpiece at a bargain price now that a year has passed since its publication. I ad
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A New Voice, A New Song
Oct 01, 2012
Hanna Rosin’s new book, The End of Men—and the Rise of Women predicts that within a generation women will rule the nation if not the world. (“Why Testosterone is the New Estrogen” excerpted in More, 9/12, pgs.126-7.) She has some impressive statistics to support her view. More
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Finding Elizabeth Kostova Again
Sep 28, 2012
As the saying goes, “Good things come to those who wait.” I’m not partial to waiting, to be honest. I hate standing in lines or at a stop light when I’m in the car. But this week, I was rewarded by waiting — though I admit, the waiting wasn’t by intention. Several year
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“Innocence of Muslims” Raises the Question of American Values
Sep 27, 2012
Innocence of Muslims, the film by the Egyptian born American citizen Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, exposes again that delicate balance in this country between free speech and how far a government should go to protect that right. We’ve confronted the question before, for example, when the
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Hope is on the Way
Sep 26, 2012
I’ve advocated before that we can accomplish global changes by beginning with ourselves. Recently, a new book has been published on this subject: Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living (Published by Union of Concerned Scientists) In it one will find steps an individua
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A Plot is Not a Story–Tony Hillerman knew the difference
Sep 25, 2012
One of my recent books finds from the Dollar Store is a Four Corners mystery, Earthway by Amée and David Thurlo. What attracted me to the book was Tony Hillerman’s endorsement on the jacket. Hillerman, now deceased, was best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mysteries which featur
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Nostalgia Saves Tomatoes
Sep 24, 2012
Folks on my Facebook page are suffering from nostalgia. Of late, I’ve seen lots of pictures of obsolete items that probably belong in a history museum, like the foot treadle for a non-electric sewing machine. The quaintness of these objects fills me with pleasant memories and makes
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Journalism: Is It Headed for a Big Bang?
Sep 21, 2012
I came across an interesting statistic about newspapers the other day. Even in their current moribund condition, newspapers in their print and digital formats are still read by about 75 percent of the adult population. (“The Only Game in Town,” by David Sirota, Harper
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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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