Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
January 9, 2012
Jan 08, 2012
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KIRKUS – TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE The “New York Times” recently printed a story about a woman author who purchased a critique from “Kirkus Review” for her self-published novel (“Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab,” by Motoko Rich, Book Secti
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Jan 07, 2012
“The Power of Nightmares,” is a 3 part film (available on DVD) about the simultaneous rise of radical conservatism in both the Islamic and Christian worlds. Strongly recommended of anyone struggling to get a perspective on where we are in the world today.
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Jan 05, 2012
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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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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