Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
New Beginning For Just Read It
Oct 25, 2019
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The month of May marks a new beginning for Just Read it and for me. Just Read it is the 10 minute YouTube video program Susan Stoner and I have co-hosted over the last 4 years. During each show, a Portland, Oregon author joined us to discuss a book from the New York Times B
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Black English, Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez And Nancy Pelosi
Oct 24, 2019
I may have told this story before, but it bears repeating. When I headed a teacher’s union, years ago, I defended a black member whom the school district longed to dismiss. Her hair, greying enough to appear dusted with ash, surrounded a leathery face that seemed incapab
Continue Reading →Assisted Living Needs An Assist
Oct 23, 2019
There’s a reason why women don’t earn as much as men, and discrimination isn’t the cause. It stems from a female’s cultural role as a caregiver. In fact, 81 percent of people who tend to a family member in the home are women. Unsurprisingly, most of them are mothers and
Continue Reading →Random Thoughts On Clocks, Roseanne Barr And Race
Oct 22, 2019
When a person reaches “a certain age,” doctors begin to examine him or her with an eye to senility. One of their tests requires a patient to draw the face of a clock and insert the required numbers. I tend to fail because I prefer hexagonal clocks to round ones a
Continue Reading →Amazon Gives Authors, Publishers And The Public The Squeeze
Oct 21, 2019
One of my fellow authors is scratching her head because she’s discovered her books are being sold on foreign websites. Her discovery raises a couple of questions. How did her novels wander so far from the home? Does one get bragging rights for making the bestseller list in Tra
Continue Reading →Talking To My Hearing Aids
Oct 18, 2019
At 81, I now have a pair of hearing aids, and believe me, I’d prefer not to. If I didn’t already know life moves at a frenetic pace, I would now, judging from the noise around me. I’ve worn these expensive devices for three weeks and I’m struggling to make the adju
Continue Reading →The Secret of “Secrets”
Oct 17, 2019
I hadn’t intended to share “Secrets,” the story I published earlier this month. When I read the printed version, I discovered errors: “compliment” for “complement”; “shinning” for “shining.” The punctuation was flawed with double periods in several pla
Continue Reading →Left Over Women
Oct 16, 2019
Our president, Donald Trump, is doing a great job of alienating most of the world. Certainly, he earned us no goodwill when he refused to shake hands with Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and, arguably, the real leader of the free world. Beyond insulting an ally, he p
Continue Reading →To Self-Publish Or Not To Self-publlish
Oct 15, 2019
All I wanted to do in my retirement years was write. I presumed the easiest way to do that was to find a publisher and let the company go through the mechanics of getting my books into print. So far that decision has proved unsatisfactory. I won’t go into details, but gi
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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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