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Addendum “To Paws in Tribute” Aug. 30, 2011
Aug 30, 2011
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Just met the girl with the dog in the park this morning. I stopped to compliment her on the love so clearly evident between her and her pet. She told me she has had the animal for two years and though the dog has had some obedience training, mostly it has become attuned to its owner
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Aug 29, 2011
TO PAWS IN TRIBUTE I thought about “Old Yeller” and “Lassie” the other day, and how their courage and loyalty stand out. Those novels came to mind as I was finishing my walk in the park. Ahead of me was a young woman with a large dog, a mongrel that looked like
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Aug 28, 2011
BLOWING BUBBLES Non-fiction author Eli Pariser can sure pick a book title: “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You.” This writer found a new problem to worry us — because, we all know, bad news sells. This time the trouble is with the World Wide Web. Pariser war
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Aug 25, 2011
WHAT’S IN A NAME? In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” the heroine asks: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” (Yahoo Images) She asks a good question and one a writer needs to consider
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Aug 24, 2011
A MIND OF ONE’S OWN Virginia Woolf’s collection of essays, “A Room of One’s Own,” attempts to explain why no woman writer has lived who is comparable to Shakespeare. Her explanation is that throughout history women have been under educated and dependent upon men for
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Aug 23, 2011
MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL One of my favorite stories is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novella, “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” It is set in medieval Padua where a student, Giovanni Guasconti, comes to study at the University. From his rooms, he overlooks a be
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Aug 22, 2011
OF GODS AND RELICS Years ago, I watched a television program where a man claimed he could recognize any prominent author in western culture simply by the writing style. The premise was that every author had a “voice” as unique as a thumb print. I suppose, the same could be said
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Aug 21, 2011
SELFISHNESS AS A VIRTUE I wrote a blog post a while back (July 22) about a woman who had relied heavily upon the support of her husband and came to regret it. A reader responded that the woman had lived a selfish life. The flaw is common. I can hardly think of a work in literature tha
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Aug 18, 2011
THE LESSON OF OLD AGE John Steinbeck’s segment “The Leader of the People” from his novella “The Red Pony” introduces Jody, a boy of 10, to his maternal grandfather who has come for a visit. Behind his back, Jody’s father complains the old man does nothing but repea
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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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