Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
January 3, 2011
Jan 03, 2011
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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
Continue Reading →December 31, 2010
Dec 31, 2010
THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” closes with the lines: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go bef
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Dec 30, 2010
Hi Mindy, Welcome aboard. You’re my first guest from Twitter. Great what you’re doing for your friend. Caroline
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Dec 30, 2010
HISTORY, ONE LETTER AT A TIME I wrote a letter today to a friend in his 80s.After another debilitating stroke (Blog: 9/25/10) he’s been moved to a nursing home. At such times, only a letter will do to keep in touch because patients in nursing homes may not be well enough to answer a
Continue Reading →December 29, 2010
Dec 29, 2010
PROMISES NOT KEPT I’m reading another of the books my friend gave me from her class (Blog 12/27/2010). This one’s called “An Elegy for Easterly” by Petina Grappah. It recently won the London Guardian’s First Book Award. I didn’t choose it because it had won an awar
Continue Reading →December 28, 2010
Dec 28, 2010
SEPTEMBER’S SONG December is the month for new calendars. I get free ones in the mail from a few of the charities I support. They usually come with a return envelope in case I want to make one last contribution before the tax year ends. I consider calendars an art form. I have a fri
Continue Reading →December 27, 2010
Dec 27, 2010
SOMETHING ABOUT NOTHING A friend of mine just finished auditing a course in literature. As the authors studied were foreign and unknown to me, I asked her to recommend any she thought were especially entertaining. She responded by bringing a bag of the books from the reading list with
Continue Reading →December 24, 2010
Dec 24, 2010
(Reprint of Doll Purchase was Meant to Be by Caroline Miller, published in Grit, 12/2003) Last December, I drove some friends to a local mall to finish their holiday shopping. My shopping was done so I wandered up and down aisles admiring displays. In one store, I found a tumble of do
Continue Reading →December 23, 2010
Dec 23, 2010
MAKING A DIFFERENCE The real, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was originally called “The Greatest Gift.” The short story was written by Philip Van Doren Stern and appeared in the magazine, “Good Housekeeping” in January, 1944. While the film classic, dire
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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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