Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Mothering Impulse
May 24, 2019
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When I was in the sixth grade, my town was large enough to support two junior high schools, Lincoln and Garfield. The posh kids went to Lincoln. The poor kids went to Garfield where there was a flutter of gang activity. At the time, I lived with my mother in a small, apartment
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Exclusivity Has A Price
May 22, 2019
The rich don’t think like us. For example, some of the early blue-blooded dynasties like the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Morgans, obtained their wealth by questionable means and sometimes on the backs of the American worker. Today, not much has changed. Three billionaires, Ber
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Late Bloomers
May 21, 2019
When I was in high school, I had a counselor who referred to me as her late bloomer. I suppose it was because I never had a date in those days, though I had friends enough. At least, I seldom sat alone at lunch in the school cafeteria. Even so, I’ve never felt in sync wi
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Sense and Sensibility
May 20, 2019
On Friday, I complained I experience vertigo as a result of sharing the world with Donald Trump and his followers. I don’t even know how to describe Trump. Is he a president or a cult leader? A president or a would-be dictator? Certainly, he is a celebrity. As such, th
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Where’s The Beef?
May 17, 2019
Of late, Donald Trump’s favorability rating has jumped to a high of 49 percent in one major poll. I admit, I am puzzled, like a salmon swimming upstream while numbers of my species are headed toward the sea. Where are they going? What are they thinking? Okay, I get
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Once Upon A Matress
May 16, 2019
Earnest Hemmingway observed, “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” Yes, I do know. Who hasn’t had a time in his or her life when sleep was more welcome than coping with daily challenges? But sleep — too much or too l
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Thoughts On Japanese Internments
May 15, 2019
Recently, an article appeared in a newsletter which reminded me that everyone has a story to tell. The one I was reading contained the recollections of a woman, near my age, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. She was seven at the time but retained vivid memories of her internm
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Amazon’s Clumsy Art Of Persuation
May 14, 2019
I don’t click on Amazon much. Their sales strategy bothers me. For example, why I should pay almost $200 a year for the benefit of “free” shipping. Do I detect an oxymoron here? No matter. I’m a bricks-and-mortar person. The last item I purchased was an electric to
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The Half-World Of Carrot People
May 13, 2019
I heard it again today. “Oh, I never read fiction. I prefer non-fiction.” My molars dug into the side of my cheek so that I could hold my tongue. People who make this remark seem to imagine reading fiction is a frivolous pastime. In my experience, men most often hold this
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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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