Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 1, 2011
Nov 01, 2011
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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
Continue Reading →October 31, 2011
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
Continue Reading →October 28, 2011
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
Continue Reading →October 27, 2011
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
Continue Reading →October 25, 2011
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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Oct 24, 2011
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Oct 21, 2011
WORDS THAT DON’T MAKE CENTS! An article in “Live Science” by Stephanie Pappas reports on a recent study from Harvard University that shows people who are intuitive thinkers, as opposed to reflective thinkers, tend to have a higher belief in God. To give an example of intuitive
Continue Reading →Bad News on the new novel
Oct 20, 2011
An announcement to all: The publisher of my novels has decided to close the company. My third novel will not be out in January as expected. I shall have to look for a new venue. Anyone toying with the idea of buying Gothic Spring should do so right away as it will soon be ou
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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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