Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
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Feb 01, 2011
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Thanks for your comment on Jan 31. Not clear how to respond on your site. But have been watching your entries. You take me outside myself. Thank you.
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Jan 31, 2011
THE LANGUAGE OF RAPE I read in the Yahoo news summaries recently that the U.S. House of Representatives has a bill before it to limit a woman’s right to medical coverage for abortions when she is the victim of rape. The new language proposed is that the victim must been forcibly rap
Continue Reading →January 28, 2011
Jan 28, 2011
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS I’ve finished the last of the books I was given by a friend, the syllabus from a recent literature class she audited. The book is “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by the Japanese author, Haruki Maurakami. I’ve mentioned a couple of books from the
Continue Reading →January 27, 2011
Jan 27, 2011
THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN POLLINATION Despite my blog of January 25, I’ve communicated with the author/manager of a well respected blog for writers. She takes submissions from other bloggers and I sent her two even though I was uncertain about the appropriateness of mine. She see
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Jan 26, 2011
THE EVIL MEN DO ISN’T HALF AS MEMORABLE AS THE GOOD On my way to the park this week, I noticed a number of graffiti artists had scrawled their names on telephone poles along the way. My route isn’t on any main thoroughfare so the poles aren’t plastered six inches deep with poste
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Jan 25, 2011
THE SHARP EDGE OF DREAMS One of my favorite short stories by Herman Melville is called, “The Piazza.” The plot is about a man who takes up residence in the countryside on an old farm and finding the house has no piazza from which to view his sylvan world, he builds a small
Continue Reading →January 24, 2011
Jan 24, 2011
A BLOG ABOUT BLOGS Today, as I celebrate the writing of my 200th blog, I want to begin by tipping my hat to the human race. If there’s a need, someone will satisfy it. If there is no need someone will create one. Yesterday, while I was doing research on my computer, I came across an
Continue Reading →January 21, 2011
Jan 21, 2011
STEPHEN KING SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MEDICAL WRITER The number of people who earn their livelihoods as writers is staggering if one considers almost every enterprise needs them. There are pamphlet writers, tech writers, writers of instruction manuals, ad writers, medical writers and so on.
Continue Reading →January 20, 2011
Jan 20, 2011
THE WRITER’S HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER I’ve talked about the solitary nature of writing before. One isolates oneself from others in order to create stories one hopes others will read — which means the end game is anything but isolation. I thought about this irony the other da
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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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