Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Oct 15, 2010
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This interview with Dr. Veronica Asagui on “Gothic Spring” can be seen on Portland-area cable beginning Monday, October 18, 2010. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Oct 15, 2010
TALKING BACK TO THE GENIUS, PHILLIP ROTH I felt as if an arrow had pierced my heart when I read an interview on Phillip Roth in the November edition of “Vanity Fair.” His new book, “Nemesis” is out this year and he was discussing it and the fate of literature
Continue Reading →October 14, 2010
Oct 14, 2010
THOUGHTS OF EDITORS AND FRIENDSHIPS I’ve just finished the fifth draft of my fourth novel, “The Necromancer.” I think I like it, but I’m not certain whether I’ve done what I intended because I’ve had my nose pressed hard against the computer for the last several months
Continue Reading →October 13, 2010
Oct 13, 2010
A LESSON IN BUBBLES Saturday, it was raining when I left for my walk in the park, neither a gentle rain nor a downpour. The drops were hard enough to form bubbles in the puddles and I stood for a while watching them expand then burst and form again in what seemed a never ending patt
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Oct 12, 2010
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON Last week, I got the scare of my life. A friend, back from a wine tour of France, sent me an e-mail saying he needed a liver transplant. I gasped. He was so much younger than I, how was that possible? I called him at his home at once, though the hour was unseeml
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Oct 11, 2010
SHORT TERM VERSUS LONG TERM INTERESTS A friend of mine brought a book with her when we met for coffee, “The Geography of Bliss” by Eric Weiner. She was impressed by it and read a passage to me, an aphorism the author discovered while traveling in Bhutan: “When the
Continue Reading →October 8, 2010
Oct 08, 2010
THE RING OF TRUTH My friend who moved to Palm Springs sent me a letter via snail mail the other day. It contained real estate listings of homes he thought might interest me. Also included were brief descriptions of each property. I’m amazed at how many adjectives can be crammed into
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Oct 06, 2010
NEW BEGINNINGS WITH OLD THEMES This morning I started my annual clean up of the basement. It’s a job I do every year and one I devoutly hate. Mostly, I dislike confronting the daddy longlegs spiders that have made a cozy place for themselves near the windows. They are harmless, frag
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Oct 06, 2010
ART FOR ART’S SAKE? BAH, HUMBUG Didn’t P. T. Barnum say, “There’s a sucker born every minute?” I don’t wish to be that judgmental, but sometimes I do wonder why people do the things they do. As I ate my oatmeal this morning, I read an article about a new trend in New Yor
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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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