Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
January 6, 2012
Jan 05, 2012
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WHEN BATHTUBS AND WORDS COLLIDE A friend from my Facebook page recently wrote that my blog posts have inspired her to consider beginning one of her own. Naturally, I am flattered. That my words can inspire anyone strikes me as remarkable. The task of writing a blog isn’t
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Jan 05, 2012
TO SIT AT THE TABLE OR LEAD FROM BEHIND? Since writing that a speech is part of the repertoire of being a writer, I want to comment on one I heard via Facebook. A friend had shared a clip that featured the female executive of a large corporation. She was speaking to an audience about
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Jan 03, 2012
OCCUPY THE PENTAGON – NOT WALL STREET George F. Kennan lived a lucid 100 years and one of his books written in the 1950’s, “Realities of American Foreign Policy,” I carried with me in my travels through Europe and Africa. With his wisdom tucked under my arm, I could ma
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Jan 03, 2012
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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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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