Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Bon Mots And Bonbons–The Case For Reading
Dec 19, 2019
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We’d intended to walk to a coffee shop near my residence to enjoy bonbons with our beverages. Unfortunately, the morning rain altered our plans. Instead, we chose to settle into two Queen Anne chairs by a picture window in the lobby of the building where I live, our hot drinks fresh
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The Burden Of 5,000 Friends
Dec 18, 2019
A young woman from Kenya sent me a friendship request on Facebook the other day. Because I lived in east Arica for a time, I agreed. Seconds later a new message popped up. This one was from Facebook. The woman whose friendship I’d accepted had 5,000 already. The website wouldn
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Change Is Good
Dec 17, 2019
Working with an editor on my memoir taught me to appreciate how rapidly language changes. Like floodwaters, it flows, alters course and refuses to be controlled. The French have tried to apply rules to their native tongue, hoping to preserve its purity, but snippets of English breach
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Who Doesn’t Love A Bargain?
Dec 16, 2019
On Black Friday, I encountered a woman scurrying toward the entrance to my retirement center. The raw wind blew past as I held the door open for her. As I did, I noticed the shopping bag she clutched in her hand was filled to the brim. “Did you get a bargain?” I asked, making li
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Art Goes Where Science Cannot Tread
Dec 13, 2019
One day last week, PBS Newshour aired a segment about MRI imagining. Scientists are experimenting with it to “read” our thoughts. The invasion sounded creepier than what Edward Snowden envisioned when he warned that companies and governments are invading our emails. What raised my
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Women Must Speak Louder
Dec 12, 2019
The human race seems to be on a collision course with itself and women will play a critical role in the outcome. On the one hand, population growth poses an environmental question. How long can the earth sustain us? “Already we have consumed more resources in the last 50 years tha
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Where’s The Gristle?
Dec 11, 2019
Last week, I was browsing through a health food store when a clerk offered me a sample of vegetable bacon. “You won’t be able to tell the difference from the real thing,” she assured me. Taking the sample, I popped it into my mouth and noticed how my taste buds perked up. I’d
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Okay Boomer
Dec 10, 2019
Frankly, the younger generation’s meme against their elders strikes me as tame. “OK Boomer,” sounds like a capitulation, not rebellion. What? No clenched fists? No finger? Hand gestures are out of the questions, I suppose. The feat would require a person to give up scrolling o
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Elizabeth, I’m Not The Least Bit Sorry
Dec 09, 2019
Not long ago, I grew weary of seeing my news feed treated like a public kiosk. I love promoting my friends’ achievements when they publish a book or have an art show, but commercials are fair game for exploitation. One day, for example, I attached an announcement for Just Read It, m
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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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