Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
February 9, 2012
Feb 09, 2012
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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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Feb 02, 2012
LIFE LIVED AS A BEER BELCH Not long ago, (1/12/12) I wrote about the trend toward mediocrity in American society as decried by Bernard Berenson and Philip Roth, among others. Apparently the cry is growing louder than I realized and the threat more real than I imagined. The columnist
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Feb 01, 2012
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME A friend recently sent me the January 7 edition of the “Financial Times” which contained a book review of “The Science of Delusion” by Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake is a biochemist whose field is morphogenesis – the study of how organisms
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Jan 30, 2012
TEACH A LION TO LAUGH? NOT NECESSARY I’m reading a novel set during the time of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to universal suffrage. Like so many books about this country, “Skinner’s Drift” by Lisa Fugard, paints a stark picture of exotic terrains that s
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Jan 30, 2012
DO I CONTRADICT MYSELF? I picked up another book at the Dollar Store a while ago, though I didn’t crack it open until yesterday. I bought it because it carried a seal on the cover designating it as a 2006 “Notable Book” by the “New York Times.” I try not to be a sn
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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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