Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The People Stand Strong
Feb 19, 2026
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Last Saturday, I stood in the pounding rain with 160 protesters. An occasional wind gust blew back my rain hood, adding to the midwinter chill. Unlike the protesters in Minneapolis, those of us lining the street didn’t suffer freezing temperatures, but we shivered enough to feel h
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No Laughs At The Federal Reserve
Feb 12, 2026
Last week, a friend who is 90 wrote a blog about winter’s itchy skin and the need for a backscratcher. I laughed and left my remark on her page along with others. Seldom do my blogs get as many responses as hers. But I’m not complaining. I know political commentary isn’t g
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The Misfits Of Splendor
Feb 05, 2026
The day after Alex Pretti’s death, I sat down with a cup of coffee beside a woman who was finishing her lunch. When I mentioned my shock over the young man’s killing, she said she’d heard the news on NPR and found the incident too upsetting to discuss. A book she was reading
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The Pursuit Of Common Decency
Jan 29, 2026
Suzy Wiles’ assessment of Donald Trump’s Cabinet in the Winter issue of Vanity Fair may have given many readers a chuckle. She called it a world-class Cabinet, better than anything I could have conceived of. (“Eye of the Hurricane,” by Chris Whipple, Vanity Fair, Winter, 2
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The Tax Man Cometh
Jan 22, 2026
Tax time is almost here, a period when, like the cartoon character Snoopy, we wish we could write the IRS asking to be removed from their mailing list. People little realize that taxes are a form of power because a bureaucracy funded by taxpayers is beholden to them. Cut that “umb
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Rethinking What We know
Jan 15, 2026
The debate continued for several minutes until we realized we were using terms differently. Definitions were the source of our disagreement. I shouldn’t have been surprised. More than once, I’ve noted that language is as slippery as a well-greased pig. An argument can be debilitat
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My New Year’s Resolutions
Jan 08, 2026
As a writer, words are my tools, and I’ve produced many essays about them as subjects in themselves. So, when a friend sent me an article about the Sierra Club’s Equity Language Guide, I was curious. Cut from The Atlantic Monthly in 2023, and written by George Parker, the ar
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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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