Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
WAITING FOR GOD
Feb 12, 2020
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Like many girls raised Catholic, I flirted with the idea of becoming a nun. The notion of service to others appealed to me and, frankly, it still does. Happily, I found my calling as a teacher. I know that moment of joy in The Miracle Worker when Annie Sullivan stood at the water
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What’s In A Label?
Feb 11, 2020
Recently, I had a meeting with a woman about her upcoming presentation at the free summer workshops I give each year. She’s an expert on ways to use video to promote book sales. As we talked, I mentioned the title of an old film, then slapped one hand to my face after I’d done so.
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Of Two Minds
Feb 10, 2020
A man pulls his car over to the side of a road to provide assistance to another man whose vehicle has a flat tire. The response is common. Most of us know the frustration of a stalled car. Sharing a feeling with someone is called compassion. Sympathy, on the other hand, is a guess.
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Send In The Clowns
Feb 07, 2020
Rivaling the most ribald scenes from French farce, Republican senators at the 2020 impeachment trial of Donald Trump performed with enough buffo to have earned them laughs. Too bad they were unaware the play was a tragedy. Never mind, let us begin with their farce of jurist imparti
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The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
Feb 06, 2020
Recently, a Bernie Sanders supporter floated a conspiracy theory on Facebook: U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deliberately delayed delivering the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate in order to keep Sanders in Washington D. C. for the trial, away from the Iowa campaign, and to le
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Brides Of Rape
Feb 05, 2020
Recently, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). People rejoiced and slapped one another on the back, forgetting that when the provision was introduced in the 1970s, it had a 7-year expiration date. No matter how good it felt, the ratification of ER
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That’s No Jungle. That’s Amazon
Feb 04, 2020
For a writer, today, publishing is like walking through a landscape that keeps changing. Amazon’s war with the big publishing houses is an important reason. For a while, there seemed to be a truce between the two, but it appears Amazon has used the time to up its game. Recently,
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Making A Market With ESG
Feb 03, 2020
My broker called this week. He wanted me to buy stock in a company that is building a gas pipeline somewhere. I told him no. I’m not a purist when it comes to investing. Oil and gas are still a part of our energy picture, but I won’t support new construction on a pipeline when
Continue Reading →Let The Pundits Roar
Jan 31, 2020
If age has taught me one lesson, it’s that the past is not prologue to the future. Even so, the media is awash with pundits acting as touts, giving political tips to anyone who will listen. David Faris’ recent article in The Week, for example, offers a damning critique of how the
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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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