Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Scents And Sensibility
May 11, 2021
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Peter Susskind’s masterful novel Perfume is the story of a man, beastly in form, who concocts fragrances so intoxicating, they summon illusions. Ignore the fact that he murders beautiful young women to obtain his secret ingredients. Fantastic as it seems, the book’s association of
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Things I Never Knew
May 06, 2021
Browsing through my latest copy of Town And Country, I learned some facts that surprised me. Normally, I don’t expect to be enlightened by the magazine. Mostly, I hope to be amused. What I discovered wasn’t earth-shaking. I’d heard about power lunches before, but I didn’
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The Stendhal Syndrome
May 04, 2021
Moments exist in my life when I have stood transfixed by a work of art. A 1965 performance of Prokofiev’s ballet, Romeo and Julie in which Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margo Fontaine danced the title roles is one example. Rembrandt’s painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son is another.
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Bathtub Ecology
Apr 29, 2021
In my upcoming memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home, I describe a scene outside a Kenyan village where I was seated in a first-class train compartment opposite an Indian man. We were waiting for other passengers to board, time enough for me to take the measure of my traveling companion.
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Long May It Wave
Apr 27, 2021
“Ready on the right. Ready on the left. Ready on the firing line. Commence firing.” In my early teens, as an entrant to long-range shooting competitions, I heard these words many times while I stared down the barrel of my Remington 22, the sites adjusted for wind, gravity, and
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Musing About The Lockdown
Apr 22, 2021
The woman seated in the retirement center’s lounge was waiting for the box lunch she’d ordered. With nothing to entertain her, she studied the carpet beneath her feet as if to find a message in the pattern. For the last year, the pandemic has forced residents to live distant from
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Lesson About Bees
Apr 20, 2021
When he heard the cost of the computer repair, the old man at the opposite end of the telephone line wept. “I’m going to have a heart attack. I feel sick.” The scammer who was listening remained silent but others in the boiler room operation broke into laughter. They were unaw
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A Piece Of Work
Apr 15, 2021
Bear cubs in California are displaying an alarming affection for humans. Victims of brain encephalitis, their behavior seems cute, but it could cost them their lives. Some with the illness are lucky enough to be adopted by a wildlife refuge or zoo. The rest are euthanized because they
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Less Is More
Apr 13, 2021
For some years, my beauty moisturizer has been petroleum jelly. A woman on Facebook reacted in horror when she read my confession. Petroleum jelly clogged pores and had other negatives, she said. In reply, I sent her an article about the many dermatologists who approved of the produ
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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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