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Perchance To Dream 4
Apr 17, 2020
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It’s true. No one is ever too old to learn. Since I’ve begun my search for an agent to represent my memoir, I’ve discovered few of them are interested in writers until they’ve made their mark in the profession. In fact, the field is so competitive, that agents rarely send
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A Tale Of Two Pandemics
Apr 15, 2020
During this pandemic, I keep reflecting on the opening lines of Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times and the worst of times. The words suggest that fate has a fickle side. For example, thieves might be happy that wearing a mask in public is acceptable.
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Life After The Lingerie Department
Apr 13, 2020
Twice each day while I was quarantined because a neighbor was awaiting coronavirus test results, a nurse came to my apartment to take my temperature. One morning, I forgot to put in my hearing aids, so I didn’t respond to her knock until she pounded on the door like a lumberjack. Wh
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Where There’s A Will There’s A Way
Apr 10, 2020
Keeping up relationships is a challenge during the current coronavirus pandemic. At my retirement center, the residents on the 13th floor open their apartment doors during the dinner hour to join each other in a round of “God Bless America.” Another man uses Zoom, an online video
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Through The Lens Of the Pandemic
Apr 08, 2020
Confronted by an avalanche, the best a person can do is run like hell. The current pandemic feels like it may bury us but instead of running, we are advised to shelter in place. So, today I’ve decided to spend time reflecting upon some curious aspects of human society. No small ta
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The Wrath of Gaya
Apr 06, 2020
THE WRATH OF GAYA While the number of coronavirus victims rises in the United States, it’s difficult to see a man like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the scientist who led us through the AID’s epidemic, take his marching orders from President Donald Trump, a bungling, babbling buffoon whose a
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So Funny It Hurts
Apr 03, 2020
Even a pandemic has its humorous aspects. Isis terrorists have been warned to stay out of Europe for fear they will catch the coronavirus, (The Week, March 27, 2020, pg. 6.) Sex workers in Nevada report a booming business (Ibid, pg. 6) And there’s a rumor floating around that
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Perchance To Dream 3
Apr 01, 2020
Despite the disruption of the coronavirus, life struggles on. It’s been a few months since I announced I would begin my search for an agent to represent my memoir. I have nothing good to report and have had 5 rejections. I expect many more. I’m not discouraged. As I learne
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It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Mar 30, 2020
Having lived through the Asian flu epidemic in the late 1950s, I’m pretty sure the coronavirus will eventually wend its way out of our system. For one thing, science knows a good deal more about how to mount a viral defense than in those earlier days. A vaccine may arrive sooner rat
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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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