Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
September 28, 2011
Sep 28, 2011
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THE MISCHIEF IN ME Alan Sillitoe wrote touchingly about a boy sent to a British reform school in “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.” The director of the reformatory discovers this borstal boy is a talented runner and makes his charge an offer. If the boy wins an upcom
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Sep 27, 2011
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Sep 26, 2011
A BASIC EDUCATION – FEMININE STYLE The September issue of “Vogue” features a profile of Christine Lagarde, the new head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is the first women to hold the position. The article recounts the usual vital statistics: married twice a
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Sep 22, 2011
WOMEN WITHOUT DIMENSION “The Help” must have been a difficult novel to write because though its story is told by a woman about women, black and white, the temptation to create stock figures must have been great: the bitch, the idealist, the follower, the rebel, the timid
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Sep 21, 2011
THE SACRED MATRIX Every day science reveals more about the workings of the human brain. We now accept the idea that the mind functions like a computer. But while machines work from a series of 1s and 0s, the mind’s inputs read “well-being” and “ill-being.” (“The Politi
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Sep 20, 2011
THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS E. M. Forster’s “A Passage to India” explores the racial tensions and prejudices that existed during the 1920’s between the indigenous people of that country and the British colonists. The novel documents the misunderstandings that existed a
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Sep 19, 2011
WHEN GENDER ISN’T GENDER BUT A WORLD VISION An article in the September “Vogue Magazine” covers the contributions women made in the Libyan uprising. In fact, if journalist Janine de Giovanni is correct, the rebellion was actually begun by women. They organized the hospit
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Sep 18, 2011
THE HEROES AMONG US One of those Nick Adams stories by Ernest Hemingway begins with an image of starving wolves. They’re so hungry they devour their own entrails. In a strange way, it might have been an image of Hemingway’s life, a man who pushed himself to satisfy his pas
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Sep 15, 2011
LAUGHTER THAT KILLS In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” in which he suggested the Irish poor might ease their penury by selling their children as food to satisfy the refined tastes of wealthy Lords and Ladies. His purpose was to satirize the heartless attitude
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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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