Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
May 2, 2011
May 01, 2011
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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
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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
Continue Reading →Caroline, where did you go to high school? How did our paths cross?
Apr 27, 2011
I don’t know how are paths may have crossed as you are anonymous. I went to high school in California.
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Apr 27, 2011
A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) is a short story about a young married couple so poor that on their first Christmas together, each of them makes a sacrifice to provide a gift for the other. The wife cuts off her long
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Apr 25, 2011
ANGELS AMONG US In March, I wrote about Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, “Never Let Me Go” (3/14/2011). It is the story of cloned children raised for the sole purpose of providing organs to others until the youngsters become “complete,” meaning they die. One of the passiona
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Apr 24, 2011
A LITTLE BIT OF PREJUDICE REVEALED A friend, a former student from my teaching days in Zimbabwe, e-mailed a picture of one of her classmates the other day. It was a boy, now a middle aged man, with whom I had lost touch but liked very much. He had grown up to be farmer but was driven
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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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