Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
July 26, 2011
Jul 25, 2011
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THOUGHTS OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS AND OLD BOOKS Years ago when I moved from a large house into a small, one bedroom apartment, I was forced to make hard choices about which books to keep and which to consign to the used bookstore. I had to make a series of wrenching decisions but time has p
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Jul 24, 2011
THE BLAME GAME Deborah Copaken Kogan is a married woman with children who made her living as a photojournalist covering hotspots around the globe. Millions of people read her reports over their morning coffee without considering the effort it took to bring them the news. She began her
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Jul 21, 2011
REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST After rereading Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer,” I decided to chose another book from my past and found a cheap paperback of Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch” (1971). I wondered if her views that underpinned the women’s mov
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Jul 21, 2011
Don’t know if you’re asking me but I go to Paris in my head a lot. Haven’t been there physically in years
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Jul 20, 2011
THE MYSTICAL, MAGICAL MIND Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the great English poet, is said to have awakened from an opium dream to begin scribbling his classic, “Kubla Kahn” (1797). He wrote from memory and with the frenetic speed of one receiving dictation from on high. Unfortunatel
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Jul 19, 2011
LISTENING WITH OUR HEARTS A recent article in “Vogue” magazine, “Keeping the Faith” (4/11) chronicles the story of a young journalist who discovered her profession could be used as a tool for social change. On assignment in Morocco, she encountered a warren of dark dwe
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Jul 18, 2011
THE WAITING GAME John Milton closed his poem, “On His Blindness” with the now famous line: “They also serve who only stand and wait.” Presumably, the words are meant to give hope to those who feel useless because of some impediment like blindness or paralysis or a crippling
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Jul 17, 2011
THE LESSON OF A TRAP DOOR SPIDER I’m not the first to have recognized that certain characteristics are shared between insects and people. Henry David Thoreau in “Walden” recounts a struggle between an army of red and black ants which he compares to human conflicts that g
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Jul 14, 2011
THE UNINVITED Almost everyone knows Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall.” In it he repeats a warning refrain: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it do
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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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