Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
September 30, 2010
Sep 30, 2010
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A WRITER’S POINT OF VIEW I’m always surprised at how little we seem to know ourselves. Recently, someone e-mailed me to say she was amazed that I accomplish all that I do. A flattering comment, if getting a number of chores out of the way is worthy of praise. What amuses me is so
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Sep 29, 2010
SHAKESPEARE VERSUS DAN BROWN A while back, I had lunch with a former student who had just returned from a performance of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” As we were leaving for the restaurant he said, “I really don’t like Shakespeare.” His voice was barely above
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Sep 28, 2010
SAMUEL BECKETT’S BROKEN COMPASS Why do I do these things to myself? I’ve set a deadline to finish my fourth novel by the end of September. I’m not going to make the deadline but I’ll continue to write at a frantic pace, like a college student with a term paper due in 24 hours
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Sep 27, 2010
WHEN LIFE MEETS ART Saturday, I went to a baby shower I’d been anticipating (Blog 9/1/2010). I was met by a butler in a dark suit, a pink satin tie and with the requisite tea towel slung over his left arm. His left hand held a bottle of bubbly which he poured freely. He turned out t
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Sep 24, 2010
A LIFE LIVED IN TOOTHBRUSH TIME My electric toothbrush has a two minute timer on it. I try to be disciplined and stay the course, but sometimes standing for two minutes with a brush humming in my mouth is just too-o-o long. All in all it requires six minutes a day to keep my dentist h
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Sep 23, 2010
A RECIPE TO LIVE BY I hate to cook. To me, cooking for one person is an absolute bore. Mark, my publicist, feels otherwise and looked askance when I confessed I ate a lot of frozen dinners [editor’s note: But in a nice way!]. We were on the book tour to eastern Oregon at the tim
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Sep 22, 2010
A BOOK OF LIFE CLOSES I never read my local newspaper as I have no wish to spend my life being misinformed. As I may have mentioned before, I don’t feel deprived. My home town is a major city but has a grapevine for gossip that gives it the feel of a small town. If anything of conse
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Sep 21, 2010
ON THE SUBJECT OF LEAVES Tomorrow is the last official day of summer and already the leaves are turning yellow and dropping from the birch tree in my garden. It is the first tree to start shedding and the last to finish. This tall, hulking specimen of 35-40 feet began as a weed which
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Sep 20, 2010
A LESSON FROM MY BLUEBERRIES With just one more day of summer left, I decided to walk to the nearby gardening shop, a distance of about 50 blocks round trip. The day was cool and dry but the forecast was for rain, so I left home at 9 in the morning. I had a question I wanted to ask th
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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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