Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 1, 2010
Nov 01, 2010
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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
Continue Reading →October 29, 2010
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
Continue Reading →October 28, 2010
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
Continue Reading →October 27, 2010
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
Continue Reading →October 26, 2010
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
Continue Reading →For Nancy (Young) McKay
Oct 25, 2010
Gosh, thank you for those nice words! Was wonderful to have you attend the book reading. Hope you stay in touch. Any questions or comments, I’m glad to oblige. Carolline
Continue Reading →Oct 25, 2010
Just finished Heartland and Gothic Spring – What a joy! Thank you! So great to see you last Tuesday at your reading. – Nancy (Young) McKay
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Oct 25, 2010
RUMINATIONS ON EMILY DICKINSON AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB Many critics note that Emily Dickinson (1830-886) had a preoccupation with death but I’d say privacy was pretty high on her list, as well: The soul selects her own so
Continue Reading →October 22, 2010
Oct 22, 2010
THOUGHTS ON CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION I read in the news that a billionaire in India has built himself a seven story building which he plans to use as his private residence. My first reaction was, “Wait a minute, isn’t this the same India where “Slum Dog Millionaire” exp
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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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