Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Before Roe V. Wade
Apr 23, 2018
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The woman in this coroner’s photograph was called Gerri. She died in 1964 attempting to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger. Something went wrong and she bled to death alone on her bathroom floor. If the picture offends anyone, I am sorry, but the circumstances shoul
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Chattel Minds
Apr 20, 2018
In a recent blog (Blog 12/14/2016), I wrote my thoughts about the centuries of patriarchal thinking that have painted women as inferior to men. I referred to women who accepted this view as having a “chattel mind.” That I was guilty of the same misperception became clear when
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Getting From Here To There Without Becoming Stupid
Apr 19, 2018
I continue to be amazed at how little we humans know ourselves: how our brains work, what motivations govern us — many of which are unconscious — and how technology alters our mental processes. Take, for example, the GPS systems in today’s cars. Not only does research
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Don’t Blame The Fairies
Apr 18, 2018
I recall in my college readings a story about David Hume, a philosopher of the 18th century, who believed only what his eyes confirmed — though he was wary of that information as well. During a conversation with the literary figure James Boswell, Hume asserted a gap existed be
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One Of These Days…
Apr 17, 2018
Stanley Bing is a columnist who appears regularly on the last page of the monthly editions of Fortune Magazine. I don’t know why he’s included among serious speculations about the stock market and China’s currency. But he is. And he makes me laugh. This May he
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What The Poet’s Heart Knows
Apr 16, 2018
Years ago, while having a friendly discussion with a psychologist, I reached across the coffee table to pat his hand. He’d said something amusing and my reaction had been automatic. “You know what’ve you done?” he said, when I’d settled back in my chair. “You’ve anchored
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The Death Master File
Apr 13, 2018
One summer, between my freshman and sophomore year of college, I worked in a bank — a bank vault to be exact. I had three duties. I allowed people access to their safe deposit boxes. I filed historical records. And daily, I read the obituaries in the city’s two newspapers. My
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Writing A Memoir Or Daring To Think About It
Apr 12, 2018
I have in my mind an idea for a short memoir about my three-and-a- half years abroad. During that time, I taught everything from biology to the American Revolution in English schools, one in the Midlands and the other in Essex. Holidays brimmed with foreign adventure until I cam
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Thoughts On A Telephone Pole Manifesto
Apr 11, 2018
Walking back from the park the other day, I came upon a manifesto of sorts, typed in single space and nailed to a telephone pole. The message declared that no one should remain silent while another was persecuted for the color of his skin or his impoverished condition. Evil, the
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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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