Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 26, 2010
Nov 26, 2010
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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
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Nov 25, 2010
Want to wish readers of this blog a very happy Thanksgiving. Hope you’ll come back tomorrow.
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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
Continue Reading →November 22, 2010
Nov 22, 2010
LITERATURE CAN WORK MAGIC I’m not waiting for Black Friday. I went shopping yesterday for gifts to donate to the Christmas toy drive. If I delay, all the “good stuff” will be gone. I confess I came home with a prize: a life size baby doll complete w
Continue Reading →November 19, 2010
Nov 19, 2010
HARD THOUGHTS ABOUT WINNIE THE POOH Walt Disney is preparing a feature length movie of Winnie the Pooh which will be released shortly. The artwork will be hand colored, the way the studio worked before computer animation. The intent is to preserve the film’s antique quality but the
Continue Reading →Novemvber 18, 2010
Nov 18, 2010
MEA CULPA When I was in college, one of my assignments was to read Earnest Hemingway’s short story, “A Clean Well Lighted Place.” There are many interpretations as to its meaning. Some think it contrasts youth and age, for example. Others think the three central figure
Continue Reading →November 17, 2010
Nov 17, 2010
IF THERE IS TIME… On November 13, 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from 7 years of house arrest in Burma. This is not the first time the government has imprisoned this frail looking woman but none of her confinements seem to have dampened her resolve to bring democracy to her cou
Continue Reading →November 16, 2010
Nov 16, 2010
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND IT IS US — (Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1913-73) The last election revealed a country divided against itself with no vision of how to pull together. One group wants to level the economic playing field to create greater opportunity for all and
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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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