Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
September 22, 2010
Sep 22, 2010
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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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Sep 17, 2010
SHUCKING OYSTERS On Tuesday, I went to my first book club gathering. 14 women were in attendance, all of them clutching copies of Heart Land. The moment I came through the door, one of the attendees approached me. “I laughed. I cried. I loved the book,” she said. Well, what writer
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Sep 16, 2010
PUTTING TRUST IN PICASSO I came back from my book tour to discover a hydrangea in my garden had given me a single puff ball blossom. It had been transplanted in my garden by a friend nearly 4 years ago and till now, had never bloomed. At last, I’ve discovered what it looks like: a w
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Sep 15, 2010
IF EINSTEIN HAD BEEN A HOPI A dear friend of mine has had a stroke. It’s not the first time for him and each event has left its mark. This stroke created a disconnect between what he wants to say and what he sometimes does say. The prognosis is good for his recovery but he’ll need
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Sep 14, 2010
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Today marks my 100th blog posting to the web community. What I really want to celebrate, however, are my readers, a silent bunch but loyal. Last month, I had 143 visitors to this site and 70% were repeat readers with new people trickling in all the time. I don’t kn
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Sep 13, 2010
A WRITER’S SEARCH FOR AN AUDIENCE A week before the Round Up, the sleepy, small community of Pendleton looks like an ideal place to retire. The downtown has undergone a considerable upgrade which gives it a western atmosphere. Even the cement paving has been designed to look like a
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Sep 08, 2010
A FINAL RANT ON STEIG LARSSON Last week a friend alerted me to an article from the New York Times Sunday Book Review (9/14/2010) about Stieg Larsson, author of the trilogy that began with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She’d read my rant about the first book. The rest of the trilo
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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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