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Challenge for a Long Life
Sep 20, 2012
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I came across an article from the journal of Psychology and Aging the other day about risk taking. The report said that by the age of 50 most of us stop looking for challenges, behavior, they argue, which ages us. (AARP, July 2012, pg. 62) Frankly, I would have thought the reverse was
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Andrei Makine Lifts the Veil on a Taboo
Sep 19, 2012
Literature’s power is to carry us safely to places we wouldn’t ordinarily go. One of those places is the world of taboos. For centuries, writers have dared venture into forbidden territory, creating some of the world’s great classics. Two examples are D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Cha
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Reprise: “A Government is not a Business”
Sep 18, 2012
On August 27, I wrote a blog entitled, “A Government is Not a Business.” Recently, writer Todd Purdam echoed similar sentiments in the September issue of Vanity Fair, but he added one observation that escaped me: that a business, like the military, is a hierarchical institution wh
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Congratulations to the Fourth Estate
Sep 17, 2012
For all the reading I do, I don’t subscribe to a daily newspaper. We have only one in our town and I don’t care much for it. Having been a politician for several years, I’ve had to work with journalists of all political persuasion and long ago lost my faith in journalistic objec
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Doctors and Mamograms and Pelvic Exams, Oh My!
Sep 14, 2012
“Delusional” is the only way I can characterize Madonna Behen’s article, “Secrets to Stress-Free Doctor Visits,” which appeared in the August edition of Woman’s Day. (pg. 93). First of all, for me, a stress free doctor visit is a contradiction in terms. Either I’m in the
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Femininity in a World Awash in Testosterone
Sep 13, 2012
“Goodbye, Girl,” is Kyran Pittman’s lament to lost youth, published in the September issue of Good Housekeeping. Facing menopause, she has begun to notice how the image in her mirror no longer reflects the one she’s grown used to. What’s more, she’s gained 10 pounds myster
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The Joy of Imperfection
Sep 12, 2012
I’m always delighted to find an essay by Dominique Browning in one publication or another. She’s the former editor of the now defunct House and Garden magazine and I recommended her book, Around the House and in the Garden, in one of my early blogs. The story is a memoir of her em
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Thoughts About Tree Branches
Sep 11, 2012
Our human enchantment with trees shows itself everywhere in literature. Joyce Kilmer waxed poetically about them as did Robert Frost. The magic in Shakespeare’s plays usually takes place in the forest as they do in children’s fairytales. I, too, have written about them in these bl
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Free Isn’t Always a Good Price
Sep 10, 2012
Not long ago a couple of writers on my Facebook page advertised that their eBooks would be free for one day on Amazon. Free sounded like a good price but as I have no electronic reader, I was unable to take advantage of the offer. Later that afternoon, as I was browsing through the Au
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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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