Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Sexual Harrassment
Apr 10, 2018
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“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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Divine Nature — A Rumination
Apr 03, 2018
I had a long and convoluted conversation with my stock broker this morning. Times are volatile for the market and for the world, and so we bent our heads together to examine ways to preserve capital. In the end, we concluded no place was safe. Putting money in a bank, bonds or i
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The Virtual Afterlife
Apr 02, 2018
When I was a child, I’d often stand in front of the Philco radio and pretend I was a concert conductor. “Beethoven’s Fifth” and “Flight of the Bumble Bee,” gave me a good, aerobic workout as did Mussorgsky’s, “Great Wall of Kiev.” 70 years have passed and I don’t d
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Living With A Wild God
Mar 30, 2018
In August, I read a review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Living with a Wild God. (Blog 8/11/14) The work centers around an experience in her early life which she describes as a shift in her level of consciousness. Having had a similar experience in my 40s, I decided to get m
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Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman
Mar 29, 2018
Tomorrow, October 26, women of Saudi Arabia will take to the streets in their cars in a mass protest against the taboo that forbids them from driving. The current prohibition isn’t a matter of Islamic law. What women are facing is a long held prejudice that presumes driving is a pri
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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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