Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 5, 2010
Nov 05, 2010
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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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Nov 02, 2010
A LOVE SONG FOR MY FORMER STUDENTS I wrote in an earlier blog (9/26/10) that to have value, literature needs to be relevant to one’s life. Even so, I confess that years ago, I had the audacity to teach T. S. Elliot’s, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to 17 year-ol
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Nov 01, 2010
A STORY FOR THE THANKSGIVING SEASON Halloween has passed and Thanksgiving looms ahead. The magazines coming in through my mail slot are ablaze with pictures of turkey dinners and a variety of pies. I can feel my mouth water as I turn the pages. I don’t cook these foods for myself. I
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Oct 29, 2010
A FAREWELL TO MARY Tomorrow, I’ll head for the garden store one last time before winter sets in. I’ve discovered a gap, a vacant corner that wants filling with a small shrub, possibly one with color in the fall. Like nature, I abhor a vacuum. A garden should be a place of irration
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Oct 28, 2010
THOUGHTS ON PRUNING Several years ago, when I gardened on my own, I took a half day workshop on how to prune plants and shrubs and even trees at our local Japanese Garden. What I took away with me was the word “prudhoe” which is probably not how it’s spelled but which means to s
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Oct 27, 2010
THOUGHTS ON WALDEN POND I never read Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden Pond” when I was in college. The book was part of the curriculum, but I skipped it. At 19 studying the words of a guy who spent his time observing ants didn’t mean much to me. I was absorbing ideas from
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Oct 26, 2010
EDUCATION IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG A friend dropped by for tea a few days ago. He’s not retired. He came to visit on his lunch hour. I serve as his surrogate mother as his died when he was young. He spends the time bringing me up-to-date on his family —a wife, three daughters (a
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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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