Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
What The Poet’s Heart Knows
Apr 16, 2018
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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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Sexual Harrassment
Apr 10, 2018
“Casting couch,” is a phrase that’s been floating around Hollywood for decades. A casting couch is where a comely actress drops her dress in exchange for a role in a movie. My mother, a ringer for Hedy Lamar, did a few laps around that couch before giving up her drea
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Ramblings About Spiderman, Charlie Brown and Innocence Remembered
Apr 09, 2018
I confess I’m a fan of the television series, Big Bang Theory. The 30 minute program centers on scientists who are captivated by comic book heroes. Sexual gags aside, the program exudes a childlike innocence, not dissimilar, I suppose, from the curiosity a scientist feel
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Child Brides In The United States — A Practice Alive And Well
Apr 06, 2018
I wrote recently about khatatna in the United States, the practice of slicing a girl’s gentiles, behavior common in the Middle East. (Blog 6/30/17) Though a cultural ritual, it has no place in the United States. Perpetrators should be caught and punished. Kha
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Hear Her Roar
Apr 05, 2018
An employee at my retirement center belongs to a religion that prohibits men and women from touching one another unless they are family members. I was warned of the taboo through the grapevine not as official written policy. Still, I have respected the stricture, though I balk a
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Born Again — A Little Magic Is Still Possible
Apr 04, 2018
It was a dark and stormy night…. Well, it was a sunny afternoon, actually. I was browsing through publishers’ listings for a short story I wanted to sell. That’s when I saw a call for original, but previously published, fairy tales. Not what I was looking for, but I’
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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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