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The New Lexicon Of Sex
Jul 29, 2019
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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
Continue Reading →Gone With The Wind
Jul 19, 2019
Imagine you are looking for a job and you read this ad: “Be your own boss. No more 9 to 5. Work as much or as little as you like. Earn as much as you like.” Would you be tempted to apply? If you did, you’d probably be entering what’s called the “gig” e
Continue Reading →I Think, Therefore…
Jul 18, 2019
She was annoyed with me, the woman on Facebook. I’d taken a position with which she disagreed. We exchanged one or two comments. Then I let the matter drop. We were jousting over opinions, after all. Stellar orbits remained intact. Tides would continue to roll in from the
Continue Reading →Writer Caroline Miller Takes The Pledge
Jul 17, 2019
Since the 2016 election, we’ve heard a good deal about fake news. Bogus sources seem to spring up overnight. Even Gig data can’t be trusted. Click) How do we tell the news from propaganda in this environment? With 2.2 billion users sharing information on Faceboo
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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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