Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
December 16, 2010
Dec 16, 2010
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WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Several days ago, I went with a friend to see the latest Harry Potter movie, Part 1 of “The Deathly Hollows.” I enjoyed myselfas I am a Harry Potter fan, but I always view these experiences with two minds. The books are long and detailed, so a movie i
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Dec 15, 2010
ANOTHER INCONVENIENT TRUTH Last night I watched the film “My Fair Lady” and went to bed humming “I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night…” As it turned out, I should have danced all night. It would have made more sense than to lie tossing and t
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Dec 14, 2010
ART AS A GAME OF WINNING AND LOOSING I’ve confessed many times that I tend to read magazines whenever I sit down to lunch. I like the fashion publications best because they are visual and don’t require much reading. Because I like fashion and consider it an art form, I ordered a D
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Dec 13, 2010
A MOST IMPORTANT GIFT I spent much of yesterday writing letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience and victims of war. I’m a member of Amnesty International and have been writing these letters for years. During the Christmas holidays, we are allowed to write directly to those bein
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Dec 10, 2010
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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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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