Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 4, 2011
Nov 04, 2011
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SWAN SONG FOR THE LONE WOLVES In the September issue of “Harper’s” magazine, Garret Keizer, a contributing editor and author writes about his recent one year stint as a teacher at a high school where he’d been an instructor thirty years before. Some things hadn’t changed.
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Nov 03, 2011
OF MAUS AND MEN The Arab Spring released a season of discontent around the globe. People barred from their dreams are beginning to look beyond themselves to explain that failure and are questioning the structure of societies as a whole. As a result, gatekeepers are being challenged
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Nov 02, 2011
WHY WE SHOULD RULE BY THE BOOK I quoted the writer Philip Roth last year who said great writing in the United States was on the decline. He didn’t say why and I’ve been speculating on the question ever since. Is it true, for example? Certainly the number of self-published books is
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Nov 01, 2011
A COSMIC LAUGH I recently received a note from one of my Facebook pals who wrote he’d had a letter to the editor printed in a local newspaper. Could he say he was a published author now, he wondered. My response was to congratulate him and add an “amen” to his comment that he w
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Oct 31, 2011
WHEN THE MOON IS A GHOSTLY GALLEON “Heart Land” has a chapter entitled “Of Ghost, Goblins and Little Green Men.” In this Halloween story, the children of my fictional town avoid knocking at the dentist’s door because he treats them to bundles of sliced carrots and
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Oct 28, 2011
HOW THE PEN GOT IT WRONG I received a questionnaire recently from PEN, a writer’s organization that promotes literature and advocates for artists around the world — particularly those who find themselves in repressive societies. I breezed through the questions until I came a
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Oct 27, 2011
ALL WORDS CONSIDERED One new book I’m reading is a study of Francis Bacon, a philosopher of the 16th century. The work was written by one of my former students, now a university professor in California. We reconnected at his 45-year high school reunion and as he’d always been amo
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Oct 26, 2011
THE TWO FACES OF ADAM AND EVE According to George Lakoff’s book, “The Political Mind,” the human brain is constructed to be hypocritical. We are wired to show empathy for one another but we also desire to dominate (blog 9/22/11). These two aspects of ourselves can have bizarre
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Oct 25, 2011
WHEN SILENCE IS THE LOUDEST ANSWER Blogs come in all formats and sizes, expressing as many opinions as there are bloggers. Certainly it is the most egalitarian form of communication since the ancient Greeks gathered in the Agora and is as free to all as autumn leaves. Finding an a
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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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