Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Biden, The Invisible Man
Aug 16, 2022
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The budget pamphlet in my mailbox was titled “Financial Realities.” I laughed. As a person once responsible for a $200 million budget, I know financial realities are imaginary. Budgets are guestimates of the future based on the unlikely assumption that history will repeat
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Perchance To Dream 11
Aug 11, 2022
A year ago, I threw in the towel. By then my memoir had received more than 100 agent rejections. Presuming the fault was mine, I decided to rewrite the manuscript. The editor I’d hired to critique the original draft had called that version “literature.” She and I were the on
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Of Human Bondage
Aug 09, 2022
If past practices are a justification for anything, then slavery should be legal. Slavery existed long before the birth of Christ, and several passages in the Bible sanction the institution. Many of us may think slavery is illegal in the modern world. But, those of us who do are wro
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Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Aug 04, 2022
Tooth extraction! Taking the day off. See you Tuesday, August 9.
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A Short Rant On Trust
Aug 02, 2022
He said it was okay to cheat. A well-known political pundit gave a thumbs up when the Democrats dumped money into the Republican campaigns of candidates who are an embarrassment to that party. Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a Republican who serves on the January 6 Commission, finds this
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Puzzling Out The Future
Jul 28, 2022
At the retirement center, I sank into a chair opposite a man who once had a distinguished career. Knowing he wasn’t a loquacious individual, I started the conversation, asking how he’d spent his afternoon. “Reading,” he replied. “It passes the hours.” The previous day,
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Twilight Zones Of Earth And Mind
Jul 26, 2022
Bigfoot isn’t likely to be hiding in the forests surrounding Mt. Hood in Oregon. Even so, scientists speculate many of earth’s smaller creatures are waiting to be discovered. One portion of the earth that until now has been beyond human reach is the Twilight Zone, ocean
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Theodicy And True Lies
Jul 21, 2022
I’ve told this story before. Theodore Dreiser gave a lecture at a university where a young man seated in the audience was writing his doctorate on Dreiser’s, Sister Carrie. After the presentation, the student collared the author to talk about his dissertation, hoping to validate h
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Saving Our Ship Of State
Jul 19, 2022
The ferry bobbed in the six-foot waves like a match stick caught in a wash cycle. While the storm outside raged, inside, passengers huddled in the middle rows of the vessel’s viewing area, away from wind gusts that could break the glass. Together, the people, white-lipped
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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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