Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
January 3, 2012
Jan 03, 2012
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THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF – Franklin D. Roosevelt I’m half way through my reading of Barbara Walker’s book “Man Made God” and found the history of the Inquisition tough going.
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Jan 01, 2012
THE TENDER MERCIES OF FAILURE “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi, made famous by Walt Disney’s animation, is the story of a wooden puppet who is led astray by a number of unscrupulous adventurers. Having lost his way, the puppet vows to return to his creator,
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Dec 29, 2011
THE PRESENT – OURS TO SQUANDER I picked up a copy of the Harry Potter DVD, “The Deathly Hollows, part 2” a few days ago and felt happy and sad at the same time. I was eager to see the film again after having viewed it on the big screen. At home I’m inclined to catch
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Dec 29, 2011
THE MANY FACES OF REJECTION I went to my snooty second-hand bookstore the other day with five paperbacks. Two of them I’d purchased at another resale shop but three were new. They were all good reads so imagine my humiliation when all were rejected. Attempting to be philosophica
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Dec 28, 2011
COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY – ANOTHER NAME FOR CHEATING? Several years ago I heard a psychologist say that people who were creative risked becoming neurotic because they were capable of envisioning several outcomes, good and bad, for any given situation. I don’t know if what he said ha
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Dec 27, 2011
IN SEARCH OF JEEVES The November 2011 edition of “Town & Country” had an article by writer Jonathan Reynolds that recounts his abridged training at butler’s school – an institution which began in New York when a wealthy woman woke up in her mansion one morning and
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Dec 26, 2011
HE LEFT US TOO SOON TO WEAR THE BOTTOMS OF HIS TROUSERS ROLLED — in memory of Christopher Hitchens The January edition of “Vanity Fair” contains “The Trial of the Will” which is probably the last essay Christopher Hitchens wrote before he died. In it, he reject
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Dec 24, 2011
A TASTE OF “GOTHIC SPRING” I enter a new year with high hopes for my third novel, soon to be published… and a fourth standing in the wings. This also seems like a good time to show off the revised cover for my second novel, “Gothic Spring.” I believe it m
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Dec 23, 2011
AS WE PREPARE TO ENJOY THE HOLIDAY I’VE DECIDED TO SHARE A FRAGMENT FROM A MEMOIR OF MY TRAVELS IN THE 1960s ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT WITH MY FRIEND NOREEN, A TEACHER I MET IN ENGLAND A YEAR EARLIER. IT WAS A MEMORABLE CHRISTMAS SPENT IN UGANDA AND I SHARE IT BELOW AS MY GIFT TO Y
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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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