Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 25, 2011
Nov 25, 2011
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SOME MILK FOR THOUGHT Learning about the history of words can be as fascinating as Robert Landon’s quest for truth in “The Da Vinci Code.” Just as rumors and mythshave a life of their own, words do as well, changing with the advent of technology, religious precepts and politic
Continue Reading →Hi Caroline, loving your blog here! Just a small correction, CrowdCompass is a mobile application developer. We develop apps for events. We're not a consulting and marketing firm. I received the contact info for your friend who specializes in color. Thanks very much. It was very nice to meet you the other day!
Nov 24, 2011
i DO APOLOGIZE FOR THE ERROR. hOPE YOU CAN FORGIVE ME. HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY. GLAD YOU MADE CONTACT WITH CHARLIE. HOPE THAT WORKS OUT. AND HOPE OUR PATHS CROSS AGAIN!
Continue Reading →November 23, 2011
Nov 23, 2011
WORDS OF THANKSGIVING As we approach the season of Thanksgiving, we might pause and give thanks for language. We take words for granted, but they are the means by which we connect our internal world with the external one. Through them we express both our emotions and our ideas. Our ad
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Nov 22, 2011
MY DINNER WITH MARC The screen play for the 1981 film, “My Dinner with Andre,” written by the principle actors, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, is about a discussion the two men have one evening somewhere in New York where the topics range from experimental theatre to the
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Nov 21, 2011
A THANK YOU TO MY CRITICS I recently finished writing a novelette that I asked 6 friends to critique. I don’t usually bother my friends with my work. I hire an editor. But this wasn’t a hefty piece and I wanted reactions from people who weren’t editors but liked to read. To my s
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Nov 18, 2011
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS—Francine Raften will take you on a witty ride. Enough about literature and life, today we just talk life! I want to tip my hat to Francine Raften who hosts “TELL ME ABOUT IT,” a talk show with a buzz on www.Earth2World.com. It’s so good, it should make
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Nov 17, 2011
DEATH THOU SHALT DIE* I am aware there are a number of books written about the death penalty which have raised questions about whether or not justice is served when the state takes a life. One of the earliest writings to foment debate in my memory was not a book, but the letters o
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Nov 16, 2011
ON A “NEED TO KNOW” BASIS Gossip plays a major role in much of literature. We find it in Dickens, Thackery, Tolstoy and Edith Wharton, Henry James… in fact, few novels exist without it and even fewer biographies. Let’s face it, we humans are curious about each other. (www.12
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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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