Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
May 3, 2011
May 03, 2011
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MEDITATIONS OF AN OLD WOMAN Recently, I was invited to speak at a luncheon given by a civic group. The organization is dedicated to charitable work and my topic was “The Purpose of Purpose.” As I began to jot down my thoughts the words of Buddha visited me: R
Continue Reading →NEW BOOK CONTRACT
May 02, 2011
Happy to announce I have just received notice of a contract for my 3rd novel, Trompe l’Oeil. Don’t know when it will be out but will let people know. Suspense novel set in the France in 1960’s during the French/Algerian War. An American girl, just out of coll
Continue Reading →Thanks for taking the time to reply. I have been looking for the essay but am having no luck… if you know the title, or something else that would help me locate it please let me know http://tetw.tumblr.com/ask. You might be interested in this: http://www.harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/HarpersMagazine-2001-04-0070913.pdf It also deals with the relativity of knowledge, but from a vary different perspective.
May 02, 2011
I’d love to help but you must help an old woman out here as I am so embeded in cyberspace that I get lost. Could you remind me of the essay in question? I write blogs 5 days a week and juggle twitter, facebook and tumblir and write books. Will look up the Harpers article b
Continue Reading →ON THE DEATH OF OSAMA bin LADEN
May 02, 2011
I awoke this moring to learn of Osama bin Laden’s death. My first reaction was relief for the country and the families and victims of 9/11. I marvelled too at the heroism of the soliders who managed what appeared to be mpossible and honored the intelligence teams who have w
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May 01, 2011
MYSTERY TRAILS I mentioned I’d visited my branch library recently and checked out two mysteries (Blog: 4/28/11). Usually, I prefer to buy books rather than borrow them as I like to support my favorite writers. But, as I said in that earlier blog, I happened to find two hardbacks ava
Continue Reading →April 29, 2011
Apr 29, 2011
I feel like a kid again. Thanks to Ann Schatz’ invitation, I attended the launch of her new program, “Heart of the Matter” with a small group of invited guests to listen to and participate in an interview with Gloria Steinem. I felt like a groupie meeting a star of t
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Apr 28, 2011
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A BOOK LOVER I went to the used book store today with a few tomes to sell. Two of the novels had previously been rejected for resale, but I decided to bring them along for a third time in the hope the market had changed. The woman in line ahead of me had a sack of
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Apr 27, 2011
READING: THEN AND NOW Recently, I finished reading a third novel by Haruki Murakami, “Sputnik Sweetheart.” As I closed the covers of the book for the last time, I had two impressions. The first was how pervasive western ideas were in much of the world. I have never been to
Continue Reading →Tetw – a Tumblr dedicated to classic journalism and narrative non-fiction – would like to know: What are your favourite articles, features or essays?
Apr 27, 2011
Favorite essay? One of the most memorable was written by Robert Oppenheimer about living a relative life. In sum, all points of view are relative and equal like the points of a compass but one must choose one direction to follow while understanding it has no higher merit than the
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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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