Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
February 23, 2012
Feb 23, 2012
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WORDS, WORDS, WORDS… I’M NEVER SICK OF THEM I came across another delicious word in my reading the other day: Coruscate. It means to give off sparkles. As it begins with a sound that reminds me of “corrosive,” “corrupt” or even “corrugated,” it struck as one least
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Feb 21, 2012
THE AGE OF PERICLES IS UPON US Decades ago, when I was in college, I listened to lecture in which the professor argued that enforcing some of our laws some of the time didn’t mean people wanted them enforced all of the time. Being young, I thought the idea was shocking, but he went
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Feb 21, 2012
WINNING AND LOSING – WHAT’S IN A WORD? The sun was out during my walk through the park this morning but the landscape was misty and cold. Rounding a bend along the path, my gaze fell upon a witch hazel shrub that was sporting a few bright yellow blossoms. In the pale light, I wasn
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Feb 19, 2012
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT There’s a new book out which analyzes the amount of fraud going on in the investment world. It’s “Tangle Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America” by James B. Stewart, reviewed by Jennifer Szalai in the February 2012 edition of “Ha
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Feb 17, 2012
IN DEFENSE OF INTOLERANCE Recently, a woman on my Facebook page posted an article about a man in a Middle East who bludgeoned his wife to death because she gave birth to a female child. Naturally, I sat stupefied and tried to imagine how such brutality could happen, but a few moments
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Feb 16, 2012
THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN – Oh Yeah? A few weeks ago, I was stumbling around on my computer when I came upon blog with a language translator attached. With the click of a mouse, readers could access the same message in Chinese, Japanese, Hindi…you name it. I played aroun
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Feb 15, 2012
A PLACE WHERE MONEY DOESN’T TALK Despite my advanced age I find that I can still be surprised. Just when I think I know everything about politics, human ingenuity surprises me. For example, I’ve been sitting around wondering where the Occupy Wall Streeters are intending to go with
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Feb 14, 2012
A KIDNEY IS A KIDNEY IS A KIDNEY I came across a profile of a female attorney, Lori Andrews, in the February issue of “More” magazine, a woman about to argue the question, “Who Owns Your Body?” before the US Supreme court. But don’t be misled. This isn’t a debate a
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Feb 12, 2012
TOO BIG TO FAIL? We talk about free markets as the mother of competition but the endgame of competition is monopoly. Barry Lynn, director of the New American Foundation makes this point in February’s issue of “Harper’s.” We may think consumers are protected by laws aga
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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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