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A True Believer
Aug 01, 2019
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In True Believer, Eri Hoffer writes this about cataclysmic times and the wisdom of stepping outside a rising tide. When conditions are not ripe, the potential leader, no matter how gifted, and his holy cause, no matter how potent, remain without a following… There is a period of w
Continue Reading →Silence Of The Demagogues
Jul 31, 2019
I admit it. The older I get the more stupid I become. It has nothing to do with an aging brain and everything to do with having experienced enough to know life is complex. Designed to interlock right down to the mud of matter, the quantum level, if one part of the universe shive
Continue Reading →Food And The Roulette Of Life
Jul 30, 2019
I’m always of two minds when I write about diet and health. I don’t want people to feel guilty if they are ill. But I’d like to give them hope if I can. Some diseases, like diabetes, can be reversed or prevented with a change in eating habits. That’s why I am willing
Continue Reading →The New Lexicon Of Sex
Jul 29, 2019
No, it’s not nostalgia. Life was simpler in the good old days. Sex for example. When I was growing up, people were either heterosexual or homosexual. Then male homosexuals and female homosexuals had a falling out and we had three divides: heterosexual, gay and lesbian. I had
Continue Reading →Questions Worth Considering
Jul 26, 2019
On the corner of my large writing desk, I’m collecting a stack of articles written by women about what it means to be a woman. One day, I hope to write a feminist manifesto based upon these essays. I say a manifesto and not the manifesto,” because my intent is to open possib
Continue Reading →Failure To Plan For The Future Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Come
Jul 25, 2019
A few weeks ago, my mother turned 102. After the celebration, she kissed my cheek and said, “You are a good daughter.” I always feel guilty when she says that because I’d promised myself, years ago if she lived long enough to need round the clock care, I’d refuse to allow
Continue Reading →Where Are You, Dracula, When I Need You?
Jul 24, 2019
Movies were central to my life as a child. For ten cents, I could hit the Saturday cartoon matinée and for two hours escape my poverty. Sunday afternoons, mom paid fifty-cents for two tickets to the grown-up flicks. After that, we had a cheap dinner, probably Chinese, and went ho
Continue Reading →Hail To The Young Disrupters
Jul 23, 2019
In case anyone needs a reminder, the rate of dementia among the elderly in the western world is on the decline. Experts speculate better diets and increased levels of education are part of the explanation. (Click) We can count this medical achievement as one of many that have come
Continue Reading →We Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself
Jul 22, 2019
The other day I sat down to talk with a fellow resident at my retirement center. She was eating fish tacos, a messy lunch which I knew would require both hands as well as her mouth. An excellent time to air my views on Donald Trump, I thought. I don’t recall what outrage the p
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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 five novels
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