Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
February 15, 2012
Feb 15, 2012
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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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Feb 10, 2012
LET ME BE WISE – A GIFT FOR MY MOTHER I picked up another book from the Dollar Store which proved to be a treasure: Mitch Albom’s “For One More Day.” Albom is a decorated sports columnist and the author of two better known works, “The Five People You Meet in Heav
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Feb 09, 2012
ONE FOR THE CUCKOO’S NEST When my original publisher for “Trompe l’Oeil”* closed, I sent my manuscript to another small press in the hope they would pick it up. Soon after, however, I found a local publisher who accepted not only the new manuscript but agreed to reprin
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Feb 08, 2012
A FRAGILE LIFELINE In the February edition of “Town&Country” Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Regan, writes an essay about friendship. In it she explores the razor’s edge of that difficult interface where too much truth may break a trust and too little may seem like b
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Feb 07, 2012
THE FIRST WORD WONT BE THE LAST Once in a while, I get a request from someone on Facebook asking me to click one button or another to protect their internet privacy. I don’t put much faith in these strategies and have stopped complying with these requests. Interaction on the web mea
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Feb 06, 2012
A LONGING IN THE BLENT* AIR Recently, I rented a DVD entitled “The 4 Horsemen,” a conversation by four prominent atheist writers: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harrison, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. The topics were varied, the observations thoughtful; but the conversati
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Feb 03, 2012
THOUGHTS ON THE WAY TO THE ENDGAME I received a belated New Year’s message from a former student I taught in what is now called Zimbabwe. Today she runs a small travel agency in South Africa called Rufaro. She’s been in the business for several years and I’ve watched her struggl
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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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