Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Making Saints Of Sinners Or Settling For Something In Between
Mar 15, 2018
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I wrote a blog recently (1/16/17) that mentioned Planned Parenthood favorably. The next day a man remarked he could never support a group that sold baby parts. Surprised, I considered my two choices. I could attempt to educate a man with the grammar of a two-year-old
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Playing The Odds With The Grim Reaper
Mar 14, 2018
Recently, I had a long chat with my broker. The subject was how long I could be expected to live and how that projection could affect my investment funds. My mother is 100. Assuming I inherited her longevity genes, I could go on for another 20 years. My father and hi
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Clutter And Creativity
Mar 13, 2018
Clutter can be a sign of a creative mind at work. Clive Thompson writes that a person with pack rat behavior may have an effective “organizational strategy.” Call it, “serendipity.” (“Clutter Clash,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, March 2016, pg. 49.) When disparate
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A Dream Come True
Mar 12, 2018
A new chapter has opened for the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. (Blog 12/30/14) Having endured the German invasion of World War II, this bookstore, home to waves of struggling and famous writers, would have died with its owner, Sylvia Beach, if George Whitman hadn
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An Idea Greener Than Money
Mar 09, 2018
A while ago, I wrote a blog suggesting that while oil stocks are depressed, it might be a good time to invest in them, because the economy isn’t going to eliminate fossil fuels any time soon. The observation irked one reader enough to drop his subscription to my blog, and I got a co
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Good Housekeeping Gives Death No Stamp of Approval
Mar 08, 2018
On the way to the gym at my retirement center, there’s a table with a small basket resting on it. Sometimes the basket is empty. Sometimes it isn’t When it isn’t, it’s full of condolence cards addressed to the family of a resident who has died. As yet I know so few peo
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School Daze
Mar 07, 2018
The other day a friend was gossiping about a party his daughter threw for a few friends after their final year of college. Much of the conversation was about how to pay off their student loans. One young woman volunteered she had no debt. Her grandparents had provide
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Taking Up Line Dancing
Mar 06, 2018
One of the adjustments I’ve had to make at the retirement center where I’ve moved is that I’m obliged to associate with people I don’t know but with whom I am now living cheek by jowl. There must be 300 residents in the complex and odds are that when I sit down to a mea
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To Fall In Love While Reading Dostoyevsky
Mar 05, 2018
One of the disadvantages of living in my new location is there are no used booksellers nearby. I’m beginning to miss the convenience of my snooty bookstore even though they treated my trade-ins as if they were used oil rags. At least I had access to cheaper books. And I miss
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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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