Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
December 10, 2010
Dec 10, 2010
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THOUGHTS ON ORDER AND DISORDER I’ve been reading the professional critiques on the new Harry Potter movie, “Deathly Hollows,” based on the book by J. K. Rowling. Most of the comments are friendly. A few are not. One point they all make and agree upon is that a person dro
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Dec 09, 2010
PEEVISH THOUGHTS ON A PEEVISH DAY I picked up a battered paperback book the other day: “Stephen Hawking, Quest for the Theory of Everything.” It’s not written by Hawking. It’s a biography by Kitty Ferguson but the work is heavy on science, as might be expected. Yesterd
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Dec 08, 2010
THE HUMILITY IN LEAVES As winter approaches, the lines of a Shakespearean sonnet sometimes reverberate through my head: “That time of year thou mayest in me behold,
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Dec 06, 2010
LADDER OF SUCCESS Over coffee, a friend told me she’d received a book contract from a small company for her first novel. But when I offered my congratulations, the corners of her mouth drooped. She admitted she’d rejected the contract because it required a $500 fee. Obviously she
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Dec 03, 2010
THANK YOU MRS. BROWN During In my walk through the park the other day, I rounded a corner and was struck by what I mistook for a change in the landscape. When I looked again, I discovered it was an illusion. I was staring at a reflection of the sky in a pool of muddy water. I walked o
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Dec 02, 2010
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Some friendships are forged over time and the relationship grows stronger with the passing years. But some are born in a crisis, like the characters from the screenplay, “Thelma and Louise.” The latter kind is what I call a supernova friendship. It begins
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Dec 01, 2010
IN HONOR OF US In his poem, “To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence,” James Elroy Flecker expresses his curiosity about life after he is gone: …have you wine and music still,
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Nov 30, 2010
Loved the book. Easy to identify with the era and for me the librarian. Albert was a winner with “I surely loved libraries…..They’re magical places. Time machines,really.” Same could be said for Miller’s ability to put the reader into a time capsule and
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Nov 30, 2010
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND – John Donne, “Meditation XV11” Themes of loneliness and isolation dominate much of literature. Carson McCullers’ “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” and Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” are two examples that come to mind, but the list is len
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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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