Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Paying It Forward
Jun 24, 2021
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Last week, I was in the checkout line of a grocery store. In my basket, I had two items, small boxes, which together totaled nearly $70. A young man ahead of me waited for the clerk to tally his bill, but before he handed over his money, he turned in my direction to ask if he coul
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Elegance By Design
Jun 22, 2021
The pages of fashion magazines are bursting with predictions about new trends for the upcoming season. One reason for optimism is that Covid-19 may be losing its grip on the country. The battle isn’t won but incidents of the virus seem to be slowing down. If sustained, that mean
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Still Analog In A Digital Age
Jun 17, 2021
A young woman on my Facebook page sent up a cheer for the Kodak company recently which puzzled me. The latest news on Kodak was that the New York attorney general was filing papers to charge the company with insider trading. As I write this blog, the stock is selling below $9 per
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The Impotence Of Being Earnest
Jun 15, 2021
Lady Bracknell, a character in Oscar Wilde’s comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, is an elderly Victorian aristocrat with her corset pulled so tight it affects her brain. Learning that her daughter’s suitor is an orphan, she responds with disdain rather than sympathy. To l
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Rule That Should Be Broken
Jun 10, 2021
A man on Alabama’s death row had his sentence on appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court during the final weeks of the Trump administration. The case was complicated so his request for a stay of execution reached the High Court just days before Christopher Price was to die by lethal inj
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The Dumb Waiter
Jun 08, 2021
In a democracy, the tension between order and freedom is always at work. To keep the current playing field even, Congressional Democrats have submitted a bill to expand the U. S. Supreme Court from 9 to 13 members. They feel today’s jurists are too conservative for a society tha
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The Magical World Of Color
Jun 03, 2021
Orgasm at a cosmetic counter? Who knew? Benefit’s latest product is a shimmery blusher by that name. Blushers, overshadowed for a time by contour colors, are “in” again. Of course, they were never really abandoned and have a racy history that precedes 1976 when the same comp
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Perchance To Dream 10
Jun 01, 2021
This morning, I opened my email to find a note from a long-time friend. It said she and her husband of 50 years, both vaccinated against Covid-19, were headed for a weekend resort to join former college chums. Her words seemed to leap from the page as she expressed her anticipat
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Survival Skills For School Bus Hijackers
May 27, 2021
In my late twenties, the principal of the high school where I taught threatened me. “Promise not to join the strike and you’ll be rewarded. If not, I’ll punish you.” As a unionist and a person who had faced greater threats than one coming from an educator, I refused. Wha
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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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