Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
January 12, 2011
Jan 12, 2011
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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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January 5, 2011: Yesterday I spoke of the power of Nature to lift us above ourselves. As it’s still the first few days of the New Year I want to share this video clip a friend sent. It does more than I can say to remind us of the beauty of this planet, a gift we must all work ha
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Here’s Susan Boyle’s video of Lou Reed’s well known “Perfect Day.” You can decide. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Jan 04, 2011
THE ART OF THE CRITIQUE I’ve just finished reading a book called “Disgrace” by Nobel Prize winner, J. M. Coetzee, an Australian. The cover shows a scene from a film based on the novel which stars John Malkovich. Curious that I’d never heard of the movie, I looked it up
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Jan 03, 2011
PAYING IT FORWARD As the first work day of the New Year begins, it’s good to think about all we’ve done with our lives so far. One of my women’s magazines listed some interesting statistics about how we’ve been operating as a nation. The case for our random acts of kindness lo
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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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