Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
September 14, 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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Sep 06, 2011
REBELLIOUS THOUGHTS AS MIDNIGHT NEARS The hour was late for me — almost 12 p.m. — when, nearing the end of Haruki Murakami’s book “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,” I read the following lines: “…the absence of fighti
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Sep 05, 2011
NOW I AM 75 Today, I am 75. As I’ve said many times, while I would love to look like a 21 year-old, I wouldn’t give up what I’ve learned about life for a few less wrinkles. It’s not a bad trade off, youth for experience. Imagine how you would answer if a fairy godmother were
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Sep 04, 2011
LABOR – A BRAVE NEW WORLD A friend recently sent me an article about job cuts at the “LA Times.” The newspaper laid off all its freelance book reviewers and shifted some of its regular staffers — one who’d been with the LA Times for 23 years — and made them
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Sep 01, 2011
LISTENING TO THE HEART BEAT Every time I get a subscription renewal request from one of my ladies magazines, I feel like a middle age woman going through menopause — I should be so young — and think: I’ve got to renew myself, not these publications. (courtesy: Photobuc
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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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