Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
September 20, 2011
Sep 19, 2011
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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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Sep 14, 2011
VULNERABILITY THAT BECAME LEGEND Marilyn Monroe still compels 49 years after her death. She even wrote two of the many books about her life and career. Not even Elizabeth Taylor, equally beautiful and living a life that often made headlines, seems to have captured the public’s imagi
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Sep 13, 2011
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Sep 12, 2011
JUST ASKING I picked up a book at the dollar store the other day by George Lakoff, “The Political Mind.” In it I found a succinct description of the difference between the public and private sector: Protection and empowerment are part of the moral mission of government. That is
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Sep 11, 2011
TREES ARE NEITHER RIGHT NOR WRONG I’ve mentioned Joyce Kilmer’s poem, “Trees” before. It begins: “I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree…” But as I walked through the park this
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Sep 08, 2011
SOMETIMES WORDS REALLY DO MATTER (in memory of 9/11) In their book, “Listen Up, Mr. President” coauthors Helen Tomas and Craig Crawford offer examples of speeches made by presidents in a time of crisis, words that helped to hold the nation together. Few question the importance o
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Sep 07, 2011
TWO ENDS OF THE SAME STRING After watching the growing divisions in Congress and within the two political Parties, I got to thinking the other day about the film “One Million BC,” a knock off of Conan Doyle’s novel, “Lost Worlds.” The film was first produced
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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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