Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
August 9, 2011
Aug 08, 2011
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THOUGHTS ABOUT THE NIGHT THE BED FELL The screenplay for “Thelma & Louise” centers on two women involved with callous men who make their lives miserable. By accident, and partly by choice, they awaken one day to find themselves engaged in a crime spree. As Thelma das
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Aug 07, 2011
THE MISFITS This morning I looked out my kitchen window to find a crow sitting in the middle of the birdbath. The bird was too large for the receptacle but seemed to refuse to acknowledge this as it continued to sit, fluttering its wings with no hope of stirring the water because the
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Aug 05, 2011
LIFE’S LITTLE IRONIES Every school child knows the lines from William Henry Davis’ poem, “Leisure”: “What is this life if full of care We have no time to stand and stare?” I think of that poem on a h
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Aug 03, 2011
IT’S NOT ME, IT’S LIFE I’m revisiting Germaine Greer’s classic book “The Female Eunuch” published in 1971 and am being reminded once again of her command of vocabulary. I admit, I keep the dictionary beside me because I’m often stumped by a word I feel I should k
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Aug 02, 2011
THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS de SADE* Theatre of the Absurd isn’t fashionable anymore. It’s a style that has faded as surely as 18th century mannerist plays. But I mis
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Aug 01, 2011
DESSERT VERSUS BROCCOLI Something there is in me that demands I postpone every enjoyment until every unpleasant chore has been completed. I could blame my father, I suppose. He always exhorted me to eat my vegetables before my dessert. My father was a first generation German which m
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Jul 31, 2011
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GARDENS With most of the holidays behind us until Halloween, summer drones on like a lazy bee. There’s not much to do in the garden but weed and feed and water and keep a lookout for my neighbor who, each year, likes to share his bumper crop of zucchinis. Last s
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Jul 28, 2011
LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS…OH MY! The US Supreme Court recently ruled on a 7-2 vote that California’s law preventing the sale of violent video games to minors violates the First Amendment. By the time the ruling reached the evening news, passions were high on both sides of the arg
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Jul 27, 2011
THOUGHTS OF GUNS AND BOOKS A number of people on my Facebook page have been writing about various kinds of electronic devices. There’s been a discussion about e-readers and the merits of the some of the popular models. There’s been talk, too, of cell phones, smart phones, droids a
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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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