Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Novemvber 18, 2010
Nov 18, 2010
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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
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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
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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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Nov 15, 2010
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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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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