Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Keeping Pace With The Future Is Exhausting
Jan 23, 2020
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I’ll never quit cable television. It’s not a matter of principal but one of fact. Cable comes with my retirement center contract. I seldom use it. If I’m not watching OPB, a Netflix disc is my second choice for entertainment. So, I wasn’t surprised to read, recently,
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A Bully Pulpit Isn’t Enough
Jan 22, 2020
I’m all for confidence but the just turned 30, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has an assurance that leaves me breathless. Having won a Congressional house seat from New York, she has certainly hit the ground running. But does she know the terrain, I wonder. Certainly, the number of
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Listening To The Muse
Jan 21, 2020
I’m at an age when my young friends begin to worry about me. They note with puzzlement that I decline their invitations to see a play, a movie or go to the symphony. Am I depressed? Am I ill? The answer is “none of the above.” I’m old. I eschew the hurly-burly of street bu
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Perchance To Dream 2
Jan 20, 2020
Rejection is an experience common to most of us. Sometimes the rebuff is personal. Sometimes it isn’t. Either way, we must get past our hurt feelings or be lost in a bog. Here’s an example of how fear of rejection can make a situation worse. For the past several months I’ve be
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War In The Asphalt Jungle
Jan 17, 2020
Decades of pro-automobile policies will be difficult to unravel as cities attempt to reduce the effects of climate change. Yet, change must come. Already, air pollution from automobile emissions takes the lives of 100,000 Americans each year. Eliminating cars from the city has bee
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Some Taxing Matters
Jan 16, 2020
I support Elizabeth Warren’s bid for President of the United States. She has plans to address our multiple problems. I admit I couldn’t swear by any of them. Take her wealth tax plan, for example. Generally speaking, a wealth tax works like this: “You calculate a house
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The Third Option
Jan 15, 2020
In the dark days of winter, I admit there are occasions when curling up like a sow bug to stare at my navel seems to be the best response to the world. For two days, for example, my computer was on the fritz. When it eventually beamed back at me with renewed life, the news headlines s
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Belief Is In Evolution
Jan 14, 2020
I may have told this story before, but while in public office and after a day of fierce debate on social policy, I stepped down from my dais and stormed into my office with a staff member following in my wake. My voice as dripping with incredulity as I turned to complain to that you
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The Face Of Tragedy
Jan 13, 2020
My friend from the retirement center looked worried as we entered a coffee shop that also made chocolate confectionaries. Surrounded by bonbons of every size and flavor, I wondered that anyone could wear a frown. “What do you think of this Soleimani business,” the woman mutter
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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 four novels
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