Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
February 18, 2011
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“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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February 15, 2011 REAL LIFE INSPIRATION Today’s other post was partially inspired by images from Gary Mortensen’s 2007 documentary, “This is War: Memories of Iraq.” The DVD is in wide release. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Feb 13, 2011
THE SWEET TASTE OF IMMORTALITY On this day, I’m thinking of my friend, the husband of a married couple who lies in a hospice, clinging to his life in the hope he will live long enough to celebrate 63 years of marriage with his wife. What a bittersweet celebration that will be if he
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Feb 11, 2011
Thanks for the heart on my tribute to my mother. Liked the photo of Paris. Don’t know if you meant the irony, but to have it conjoined with the injustice being done to the petition signer makes a statement in itself between human injustice and environmental indifference.
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Feb 11, 2011
THANK YOU DR. SHAW My mother met my father in Panama in 1935. He was in the navy submarine corps at the Canal. My mom, Costa Rican by birth, worked in a soda shop near the base. Dad couldn’t speak Spanish and my mother couldn’t speak English, but she must have made a good ice crea
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Feb 10, 2011
A LESSON IN DITHERING Recently, I finished what feels the 100th draft of my third novel. I thought it was finished but the publisher wanted a slight change. It wasn’t a big change and I should have managed it without any pain, but when I opened the book for review, I couldn’t stop
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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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