Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
January 18, 2011
Jan 18, 2011
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A NEW BREED OF PARASITE Recently, I attended a speech by former book agent who has dissolved her partnership to begin a business that purports to provide a launch pad for writers who self-publish. Amazon already has a vehicle for this but no matter. Under the new rules, the agent serv
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Jan 17, 2011
In honor of the memory of a great man and after the wars, the shooting in Arizona, the fiscal debt, the drug wars, the high unemployment, the housing bubble, the divided Congress, I hope each of us will pause to consider our dream for our country and our personal responsbility to ca
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Jan 14, 2011
T.S. ELIOT HAD A POINT During one of my lunch hour reads I came across a comment by the actress, Natalie Portman. She was being interviewed for her recent movie, “The Black Swan” in which she plays a dancer who explores the good and evil aspects of her character, hoping to
Continue Reading →January 13, 2011
Jan 13, 2011
THE ART OF SAYING NO Monday is my day to grocery shop. Tuesday and Thursday, I take my walk in the park. I consider these events similar because they are the times when I do my best thinking. Browsing supermarket aisles or walking a tree lined path, I allow my mind wander wherever it
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Jan 12, 2011
LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS…. One of my favorite writers on women’s issues is Barbara G. Walker the authoritative author of “Myths and Secrets,” a huge tome of information on women’s mythology, anthropology, religion and sexuality which
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Jan 11, 2011
WORDS NOT TO LIVE BY People seem to like making lists: best restaurants, best hotels, and best movie or actor to name a few. But Lake Superior University (Yahoo news, 1/1/2011) offers a list each year of the ten worst and overused words that should be banished. In 2010 they includ
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Jan 10, 2011
THE ART OF MOUTH BREATHING, SOMETIMES CALLED LAUGHTER A while back a friend who knows I practice yoga bought me a gag book entitled “Downward-Facing Frog” illustrated and written by Joan C. Gratz. It’s one of those novelty books that poke good natured fun at the practice
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Jan 07, 2011
THE LIPSTICK OF POVERTY I have a friend who is prosperous. He was born poor but managed to pull himself up by his bootstraps, as the saying goes. As is often the case with self-made people, he shows a marked impatience with others who cannot perform as he has done. He sees the world
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Jan 06, 2011
RANDOM THOUGHTS ON HUMOR Few would disagree with the argument that humor largely depends upon one’s culture. First there is the idiom of language. I watched a British TV comedy recently and heard the audience roar with laughter over a word that had no meaning to me. One had to know
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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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