Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
June 13, 2011
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A READING STATE OF MIND Authors write books in a mood and about moods. I suppose that’s why I have several tomes lined up beside my armchair with bookmarks sticking out of them. Some take me into realms of thought; others are an opportunity to kick back and allow myself to be take
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Jun 09, 2011
THE TWO SIDES OF METAMORPHOSIS Recently, I met a group of friends for lunch. The day was warm and pleasant and there was much friendly chatter at the table for we hadn’t seen one another in some time. It felt good to be in their midst. They were contemporaries who’d worked in coun
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Jun 08, 2011
THOUGHTS ABOUT A STORY BOOK QUESTION The Caterpillar in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” pauses from his high perch to ask the title character, “Who are you?” The question seems simple enough but when the answer doesn’t satisfy, the child is subjected to a lec
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Jun 07, 2011
HOW TO AVOID ARGUMENTS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING We all know that reasonable minds can differ in spite of the facts. Now science is beginning to understand why. In a recent article that appeared in the May 20 edition of “This Week,” Chris Mooney, a science writer, discusses th
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Jun 06, 2011
LIVING IN FEAR OF THINGS THAT GO BUMP, DAY OR NIGHT “Waiting to Exhale,” a novel by Terry McMillan, is the story of four women who are “holding their breaths” until they find men to whom they can commit their lives (Wikipedia). I’ve never read the book nor have I s
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Jun 05, 2011
THOUGHTS ON THE APPROACH OF MY 75TH BIRTHDAY What makes me feel old is when: I see an ad for a Drink Milk campaign and I can’t identify the celebrity with the white mustache; I read Michael Fox has turned 50 and “Back to the Future” is celebrating its 25th anniversary. I
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Jun 02, 2011
POWER IN CREATIVITY Half way through my reading of Eric Hoffer’s True Believer, I was stunned to come upon the following: “The most incurably frustrated – and therefore, the most vehement – among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled cravin
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Jun 01, 2011
THE JOY OF CONTRAST The weather may still have occasional gray days but nature is luxuriant in its spring colors. By now the pines whose green boughs have withstood winter’s tempest are joined by the deciduous trees, their pastel greens standing in stark contrast to the conifers.
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May 31, 2011
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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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