http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:378786 April 11, 2011 BLESSED ARE THE JOKERS A friend on Facebook shared a recent Jon Stewart comedy skit about some of the things the newly elected Republican Governors have been saying recently. Given my working class bac

“DO NOT SPEAK – UNLESS IT IMPROVES THE SILENCE” — Buddha A while ago I read an essay by a physiologist who wrote that the universe could not have come about through intelligent design. No one with an intellect, he argued, and certainly not God, would put the esopha

OLD WARRIORS NEVER DIE… Today I headed to the book section of the Dollar Store. The previous day, I’d paid too much for a second novel by Haruki Murakami (blog: 3/15/2011) and was shopping for bargains as a sort of “hair of the dog” remedy for my binge. After a few minutes of

LITTLE WOMEN In the 1994 screenplay for “Little Women,” Jo March makes the following observation about men and women: “I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote.  Men do not vote because they are good; They vote because they’re mal

AT THE CLOSE OF DAY… My friend, who has fought cancer for so long is finally about to succumb (blog: 12/20/2010). His doctor gives him a year to live, though how a doctor makes this prediction is a mystery to me. Only the patient’s body holds the truth, a truth it communicates as

I AM THE GRASS Others have said it. I am not the first. On Friday, March 11, 2011 the people of Japan, a wealthy nation and the world’s third largest economy, awoke to their unimagined vulnerability, having suffered two natural disasters: a 9.0 earthquake and a devastating Tsunami t

Caroline Miller will push away from her keyboard long enough to address the Kruse Way Rotary in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She will discuss the topic of PURPOSE at noon on Tuesday, April 19 at 15555 SW Bangy Road. You’ll hear an earful, as well, about Caroline’s novels

DON’T BE AN APRIL FOOL OR ANY OTHER KIND While my blog site lists reliable resources for beginning writers looking for advice about agents and publishing houses, sometimes these sources dole out some pretty stodgy information. So, given the perversity of my nature, I’m providing i

”FAR AWAY THERE IN THE SUNSHINE ARE MY HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS.”         — Louisa May Alcott Theodore Dreiser wrote his best seller, “An American Tragedy,” in 1925 after flunking out of college, turning to journalism to make a living and finally succeeding as a n

THOUGHTS ON POLISHING THE FURNITURE Uriah Heep in Dickens’ novel, “David Copperfield,” is a much maligned character and deservedly so as he was inclined to crawl like a snake among his betters until he was in a position to strike. Still, beyond unctuous manners, there is