Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
March 16, 2012
Mar 15, 2012
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THE WEARING OF THE GREEN As Saturday is St. Patrick’s day, I can think of no better way to celebrate the occasion than by honoring an Irish author who is the living spirit of Emerald Isle, at least as I imagine it. Lizzy Shannon resides in the Pacific Northwest, though she is from I
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Something There is That Doesn’t Love A Wall, That Wants It Down
Mar 15, 2012
(Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”) I know, I know. I am not the measure of all things. There is much I don’t know… more than enough to make me blush. It is also true that I haven’t followed trends in poetry for a long, long while — not since William Carlos Williams — thoug
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Mar 14, 2012
Hi Everyone, I’m responding to queries about an e-book version of Gothic Spring, I am happy to announce it is now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Google books and will be on Apple in a couple of days. I’ve provided the links so you can open the page and read the first ch
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Mar 13, 2012
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ANYTHING I came across a column written in the March edition of “Good Housekeeping” by Dominique Browning. About a year ago, I commented on her last book “Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness.” She was once t
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Mar 12, 2012
DOUBTS ABOUT THE MEANING OF WORDS I know it’s a big, big world out there but before the Internet, it didn’t seem that way. One had family and friends that were near but the outside world came across the threshold in the form of newspapers, literally waiting at our feet until we we
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Mar 12, 2012
THE ARTISTRY OF MEMORY AND DISTANCE I had lunch with a friend the other day who asked about a mutual acquaintance. My reply was that he and I hadn’t talked for some time. Then I added, “We get along better when we don’t communicate.” My luncheon companion giggled at my wittici
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Mar 09, 2012
WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE AND WHAT’S MINE IS MINE Is “Fahrenheit 451” about to become a greater reality than we imagine? Ray Bradbury’s story about a government’s attempt to destroy books may be a greater possibility than we think, according to a recent article in the F
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Mar 07, 2012
THE MATILDA EFFECT The other day, I came across the name of a woman in the suffragist movement whom I did not know, Matilda Josyln Gage. She was more radical than her cohorts, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, because she refused to narrow her concerns to only those of wome
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Mar 06, 2012
A TREE GROWS WHERE IT’S NEEDED Traces of spring are easy to see as I walk through my garden. Green shoots are everywhere though the temperature is cold enough to oblige me to wear a jacket and mittens. The view from my front window is glorious, too. There, the sight of parked cars i
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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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