Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Rule That Should Be Broken
Jun 10, 2021
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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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Actively Dying
May 25, 2021
(On the eve of the first anniversary of my mother’s death at 104, I reprise a blog I wrote days before she died. I hope it will comfort those with similar losses in the past or yet to come.) “I remind you, your parent isn’t actively dying.” The woman in charge of the assisted
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Because I Am Old
May 20, 2021
I’m not saying this because I’m old. I’m saying this because it’s true. What’s new isn’t always what’s best. When I’m feeling nauseous, I’d prefer a doctor’s home visit rather than sit clutching my sides in her office. She imagines care is more efficient when
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Is Sarah Palin Trump’s Birther?
May 18, 2021
Most societies link human childbirth to the spiritual. “It’s a miracle,” a new parent is likely to gasp upon seeing his or her offspring for the first time. That sense of the divine is not lost in patriarchal societies. To downplay the woman’s role, religious myths credit th
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The Internet–What’s Our Destination?
May 13, 2021
“Video and audio are the hottest media,” writes Clive Thompson, a reporter for the tech magazine Wired. ( “Every Word You Say,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, May 2021, pg.15,) I have to agree. My Write Away blog is approaching its 11th anniversary and enjoys a respectable numb
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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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