Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
August 13, 2010
Aug 13, 2010
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IDEAS ARE MORE RELIABLE THAN BIRDS As I write, I’ve just finished lunch. I eat around 2 p.m. when I don’t meet a friend. It’s usually my main meal of the day. At night I settle for something light, not in terms of calories, I mean light terms of the number of dishes to wash. In
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Aug 12, 2010
THE COMPASSIONATE HEART I had lunch with a friend recently. We meet periodically to catch up. He leads a busy life and so I treasure our times together. Five years before, he made a mistake that betrayed people dear to him.Each time we meet, he tells me how hard he’s working to make
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Aug 11, 2010
Hi everyone, I recorded a half hour interview with Ed Goldberg on July 29 for his program “Between the Covers” on KBOO-FM community radio. We talk about my novels Heart Land and Gothic Spring. Ed’s remarks were insightful. You might enjoy them. http://kboo.fm/no
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Aug 11, 2010
WILL ROGERS SHOULD HAVE MET A LIBRARIAN I confess I never read “Winnie the Pooh” until I was an adult. But I did read “Now We are Six” by Milne when I was about eight or nine. I was in elementary school and I remember the librarian, a woman who looked like the
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Aug 10, 2010
THE TRUTH OF FICTION I’ve just finished reading a novel by Richard Clarke, his first, called The Scorpion’s Gate. Normally he writes non-fiction. His best seller, Against All Enemies, deals with his experiences in the Middle East while he served in military and national security p
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Aug 09, 2010
THE ORIGAMI OF LIFE I was amazed. I admit it. I’d never paid much attention to the art of origami before, but after seeing the film “Between the Folds,” I experienced a revelation. Of course, I’d seen women at the Japanese Garden fold birds or flowers from a single sheet of
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Aug 06, 2010
WHAT ALAN FUNT AND CANDID CAMERA SHOULD HAVE TAUGHT ME In the 1950’s I loved a television program called “Candid Camera,” moderated by Alan Funt. The premise was to put people in whacky situations to see how they behaved. One of my favorite skits involved a talking mail box. Whe
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Aug 05, 2010
LIVING WITH THE MASTERS Sometimes when I go to the movies, I emerge from the theater feeling like one of the characters. I did this with Norma Ray. In real life, I was as a union organizer at the time, so by identifying with Sally Field’s character I felt ennobled by my work. But I
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Aug 03, 2010
MY MOTHER’S ODYSSEY My mother is 94-years old and when I took her to lunch last week, she announced she’d decided to write a short story. She told me what it was about, an adaptation of an event in her life she thought worth preserving. She’d listened to a radio interview I’d
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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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