Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
We Are The Stuff Of Dreams
Dec 01, 2022
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I felt as if I’d dropped down Alice’s rabbit hole. The daughter of friends I’d known for years had one name, but I’d called her by another. I even invented a tag to remember it as we seldom meet: “M is for music.” As it turns out, the girl’s name doesn’t start with
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For Everything There Is A Season
Nov 29, 2022
If a person succeeds in reaching old age, three outcomes are certain. The individual will have cataract surgery, begin a prescription for glaucoma, and experience a slowdown in brain function. Memories become slippery eels, not easy to catch. Thank heaven experience steps i
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How To Avoid Extinction
Nov 22, 2022
Life is full of danger. I blew up my microwave making oatmeal this week. On a grander scale, our species faces deadly problems: climate change, threats to democracy at home and abroad, and the omnipresent threat of nuclear war. Nine countries collectively possess about 1300 nuclear
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A Scoop Of Plain Vanilla Ice Cream
Nov 17, 2022
(I’m taking a lap victory by repeating my blog of November 2020, after Joe Biden’s defeat of Donald Trump.) *** The 2020 election makes clear that neither political party will be setting the course for the country. Gr
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Perchance To Dream 14
Nov 15, 2022
A poet I know sent me her latest verse. The subject was homelessness. I replied to her with a compliment and a link to one of my blogs on the topic. Days later, she sent me four lines that I thought were lovely. About to send her a second compliment, I paused. A distant memory f
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The Heat Of The Kitchen
Nov 10, 2022
A gentleman at my retirement facility returned from a visit with friends in Australia recently. One of his hosts took him to a remote part of the country where they were joined by others who were his host’s friends. As might be expected, the conversation turned to American polit
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Making Our Way In The World
Nov 08, 2022
The woman seated opposite me in the coffee shop was more than a decade younger than I was. Long have I admired her talent and leadership in the artistic community. Naturally, I was stunned when she swallowed as if a peanut had lodged in her throat and said, “I’m going blind.”
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Abandon Fear Ye Who Enter Here
Nov 03, 2022
A friend of mine took a series of tests to determine her mental decline as she aged. Happily, for her, the tests were comforting. Even so, I admired her courage. What she’d done was like poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick. If the news hadn’t been good, how would she h
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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 four novels
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