Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
September 6, 2011
Sep 05, 2011
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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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Aug 31, 2011
THE INSANITY OF TRUTH In Thomas Mann’s novel “Dr. Faustus” his central character is a talented musician, Adrian Leverkuhn, who elects to contract syphilis, hoping that madness will inspire his creativity and take him beyond the ordinary. During one outbreak of Leverkuhn
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Aug 30, 2011
MY LIFE AS AN ARTHRITIC SNAIL Contrary to the opinion of some of my friends who avoid social networks, Facebook isn’t a place where people gather to talk about the number of snails eating their begonias. I’ve learned a good deal more than that from my web friends. (Yahoo Images) R
Continue Reading →Addendum “To Paws in Tribute” Aug. 30, 2011
Aug 30, 2011
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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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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