Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
July 20, 2011
Jul 19, 2011
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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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Jul 13, 2011
A SOAP BOX OF ONE’S OWN Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play, “A Doll’s House,” was critical of marriage norms though Ibsen demurred that his work was not about women’s’ rights. Rather, he said, the play was about the human need to identify oneself beyond a role or job description i
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Jul 13, 2011
On Thursday, July 14 my blog post, “A Soapbox of One’s Own” will be published. I’m asking anyone with a conscience to read it and to speak out by writing their Congressmen and the President by letter or e-mail. Or if it suits, write a blog about justice.
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Jul 12, 2011
TRUTH IN AN ORDINARY LIFE In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” the Prince of Denmark remarks that, to him, the world seems “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable” (Act 1, ii). Stale and flat are remarkably docile words coming from a young man who doubts his mother’s virtue and
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Jul 11, 2011
A YAQUI WAY In the 1980s I began reading the works of Carlos Castaneda, a Peruvian born citizen who, several years earlier, was studying anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles. His first work, “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge” was d
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Jul 10, 2011
OF SQUIRRELS AND MEN Looking out my kitchen window this morning, I saw two squirrels at play. One had a nut of some kind and was being chased by the other. They ran up the bark of one tree and swung to the next with a speed difficult for my eyes to follow. Eventually they disappeare
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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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