Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
December 2, 2010
Dec 02, 2010
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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,
Continue Reading →Heart Land by Caroline Miller
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
Continue Reading →November 29, 2010
Nov 29, 2010
WHO TAKES THE PRIZE? A friend who lives in Canada recommended a novel that recently won a book award there. It won’t be available in the United States until January but I managed to look up a few reviews. Most readers gave it 3 stars and one person commented it was “…hardly wort
Continue Reading →November 26, 2010
Nov 26, 2010
THOUGHTS ON INDULGENCE This day after Thanksgiving, I seriously considered spending the entire time under my blankets, reading, eating and performing any inescapable rituals as near to my bed as possible. What I had in mind was a slothful day, something akin to the kind Ilya Ilyitch O
Continue Reading →Holiday Greetings
Nov 25, 2010
Want to wish readers of this blog a very happy Thanksgiving. Hope you’ll come back tomorrow.
Continue Reading →November 24, 2010
Nov 24, 2010
THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF THANKSGIVING On the day before Thanksgiving, I want to share a memory that belongs to Maya Angelou, poet and author of many books, plays and essays. It appeared in the December 2010 issue of “Good Housekeeping” magazine (pg. 177). Sometimes, a though
Continue Reading →November 23, 2010
Nov 23, 2010
DANCING WITH THE PROGNOSTICATORS I heard a report recently that some telephone companies are going to stop printing the white pages of the telephone book. The news came as surprise. How are people to find each other without the white pages? Some of you may be snickering. If you are, y
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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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