Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
March 28, 2012
Mar 28, 2012
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SOMETHING OF A MYSTERY It doesn’t take much to make me feel insecure. If I watch a BBC mystery and don’t understand the killer’s motive, I feel inadequate. If someone tells a joke and everybody laughs but me, I feel lost. Sometimes I don’t even get the quips that appear on Fac
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Mar 26, 2012
THE MORAL IMPLICATION OF A SMILE Recently I read two commentaries in a magazine that, together, left me feeling as though I’d been dumped on by a load of bricks. The first, excerpted from the “Wall Street Journal,” was about an ailing doctor and why, like others in his p
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Mar 25, 2012
NOT ON THE STREET WHERE I LIVE Unlike Victorian children who were expected to be seen and not heard, American children, according to writer Daphne Merkin, have been protected and indulged to the point where they have a sense of entitlement. How, she wonders, will these little inhabita
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Mar 25, 2012
Are American children over-indulged? Monday’s blog raises the question. You decide.
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Mar 23, 2012
FACING A DILEMMA As today marks the beginning of the third year of this blog, I am faced with a dilemma. In the past, my goals were simply defined: Reflect on the life of a writer, even a small potatoes one like me. Make connections between writing, literature and world events. Addres
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Mar 22, 2012
A DAY OF CELEBRATION Today, I wish to thank my readers for their support and their loyalty over the past two years. March 22 marks the end of my second year as a blogger and I am staggered to think that I have written over 600 essays at the rate of five a week (M-F) on varied topics b
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Mar 21, 2012
Normal 0 SOUTH SUDAN, AN OLD COUNTRY IN A NEW SHOE South Sudan’s decision to unite its 150 tribes by making English the country’s official language is a reminder to us all that words do matter (“A Civil Tongue,” by James di Giovanni, “Harpers” March 2012 pg 53
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Mar 19, 2012
JUST SOUND — NO FURY AND NO POINT Besides touting their own books or writing reviews about the books of others, literary bloggers sometimes review people who pass themselves off as experts in the field. Okay, I’m going to say this up front so that my prejudice is not only cl
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Mar 18, 2012
UNDER THE RED TENT I posted an article last Thursday about a proposed law in Arizona. It requires that a woman seeking medical coverage for birth control pills provide her employer with a note from her doctor verifying that the pills are prescribed for medical treatment and not for co
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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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