Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
July 11, 2011
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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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Jul 07, 2011
THE OLD MAN AND THE TREE An early walk through the park brought me to the tree where, months ago, I saw a homeless man sheltering from a May shower (Blog: 5/9/2011). At the time, all his possessions were gathered in a plastic bag, which he carried in a shopping cart. Today, he was kee
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Jul 06, 2011
HOW TO MAKE A HELL OF HEAVEN In Dante’s vision of hell, he reserves the fourth circle (Canto 7) for sinners guilty of avarice and envy. Of course it could be argued these sins are sprinkled throughout the Inferno as certainly the betrayer, Lucifer, who resides in the deepest pit, wa
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Jul 05, 2011
THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE On a recent walk through the park, I saw a mother pushing a baby in a pram while a boy of about three lumbered behind. At some point the toddler fell and began to scream with vehemence. Rushing to his aid, his mother set him on his feet again, but he pushed h
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Jul 04, 2011
OF FAIRYTALES AND CYNICS In my corner of the world a phenomenon persists that defies local laws. I’m talking about the consequence of believing in street fairies. Most of us have grown up with the idea of fairies and elves and goblins who perform feats of magic. For over a century
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Jul 03, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA Land of the free. Home of the brave.
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Jun 30, 2011
“I HEAR AMERICA SINGING” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” Out of this astounding thought a nation was born — the idea that the greatest good for the whole is the result of respecting the rights of the individual. I have tou
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Jun 29, 2011
ELECTED OR ANNOINTED? Joseph E. Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001 and has published many books on the subject, including his latest in 2010, “Freefall: America, and the Sinking of the World Economy.” His recent essay appeared in the May edition of “Va
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Jun 28, 2011
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Ray Bradbury’s novel of over 40 years ago, “Fahrenheit 451,” has turned out to contain more fact than fiction. The story is about a fire fighter whose job is to burn books that are banned by a hedonistic society — a society that considers t
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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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