Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 15, 2010
Nov 15, 2010
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OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES After years of reading women’s magazines I have come upon one constant. In every issue there will be one article about the following: breast cancer; how to organize one’s house or how to lose weight. Somewhere, it must be written that if none of these featu
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Nov 12, 2010
MY MENTOR MRS. MALAPROP The other day, my mother, who is 94, insisted I once had a beautiful black dog which she inadvertently allowed to run into the street where it was killed by a passing car. Apparently, she still felt remorse for a loss that was only part true. Once I did give
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Nov 11, 2010
THE ART OF LEAVING One of my students replied to a blog the other day (Blog 11/2/10) to say he wasn’t concerned about the indignities that come with age. He was maddened by the thought of one day being told “to leave the party and don’t come back.” I understand his point of vi
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Nov 10, 2010
ON BEING IDLE I went out this morning with my pitch fork to remove the leaves from the clogged street drain at the corner of my block. No one else bothers. Most of the people around me are renters, so I accept the responsibility and prefer to do the job now rather than wait until afte
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Nov 09, 2010
A QUEEN WILL NEVER BE KING Recently, one of my magazines reported that Angelina Jolie will take the part of Cleopatra in an upcoming film based on a biography written by Stacy Schiff. Apparently the writer pieced together her information from documents left behind by the queen’s e
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Nov 08, 2010
“THE TROUBLE WITH MAN IS MAN,” James Thurber I miss James Thurber (1894-1961), a contributor to the New Yorker, cartoonist and one of America’s great humorists, along with Mark Twain and Will Rogers. He had an eye for the silliness in human nature, especially when people were ta
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Nov 05, 2010
SERIOUS THOUGHTS ON A SERIOUS QUESTION I had lunch the other day with a friend who posed an interesting question: If I’d been given a choice to be born or not to be born what would I have chosen? I paused to think. Of course, one has to exist to be able to ponder the notion which ma
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Nov 04, 2010
A LETTER TO MYSELF THIRTY YEARS INTO THE PAST Sitting down to lunch yesterday, I pulled out one of my magazines and read an article about the power of letter writing…not e-mails but the pen to paper kind. One of the stories was about a frazzled, 32 year-old pregnant mother of two
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Nov 03, 2010
IN SEARCH OF VYGER A friend of a friend of mine, Bryce Zabel, has co-authored a new science fiction book called “A.D. After Disclosure” about the extraterrestrial aliens among us. Richard M. Dolan, who wrote the book with Zabel, is a noted authority on UFOs, his semina
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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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