Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
February 25, 2011
Feb 24, 2011
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WHEN ART SHOULDN’T IMITATE LIFE ART (courtesy: Castle Rock Entertainment) Shakespeare’s “Othello” is one of literature’s many examples of a dark passion that ends
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Feb 23, 2011
I MAY BE A NOBODY, BUT… Emily Dickinson wrote a poem I’ve quoted before because it always brings a smile to my lips: (Blog: October 25, 2010) It begins with: “I’m a nobody! Who are you?” Today, I’m giving
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Feb 22, 2011
THOUGHTS OF WEATHER, BIRDS AND HAPPY BABIES The weatherman is predicting snow in the next few days and he’s probably correct. The science has become more credible than it was when I was a child. The percentage of forecasts that are right as opposed to those that are wrong seems to
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Feb 21, 2011
I HEARD A SAW BUZZ On my way to the park, a tall cottonwood tree stands, so tall it does damage to the clouds that pass overhead. I’m told it is almost 200 years old and I’ve been watching it cycle through the seasons for years. Yesterday I heard a buzzing in the neighborhood, lou
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Feb 20, 2011
A WORD TO BAGHDAD FROM AN AMERICAN TAX PAYER A friend gave me a book called “The Ghost Map” by Steven Johnson which chronicles the cholera outbreak in London in 1854 and the efforts of two men, a physician and a local curate, to find the cause. It’s the sort of book that
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Feb 17, 2011
“Wherefore O, Summer Day” – “The Bee is not Afraid” by Emily Dickenson T. S. Eliot wrote that April was the cruelest month, (“The Waste Land”) but sometimes, on a day like today, when the sun shines but provides little warmth and the ground is bar
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Feb 16, 2011
CARPE DIEM In my blog post of February third, I commented on the bravery of journalists who put their lives on the line to keep the nation informed of news at home and abroad. Little did I realize days later I’d be reading about the brutal rape and beating of Lara Logan, CBS repor
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Feb 16, 2011
EGYPT AND TUNISIA – WELCOME! “Uhuru” is the title of a novel written in the 1960s by the American writer, Robert Ruark which deals with the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya that were intended to free the country from British rule. The word means “freedom” in Swahili and as
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Feb 15, 2011
THOUGHTS ABOUT SPECIAL DAYS As yesterday was Valentine’s Day, I began to think about all the different forms love takes. There are so many, I wonder if we need different words to express them the way Eskimos are said to have different words for snow. Yesterday’s holiday celebrated
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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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