Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Child Is Father Of The Man
Mar 02, 2018
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A friend who knew I was unacquainted with the work of children’s writer Shel Silverstein gave me one of his books recently: “The Giving Tree.” Amused I breezed through it, even read it aloud as if to entertain the child inside me. But when I closed the cover, I
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Random Acts Of Niceness
Mar 01, 2018
“Random Acts Of Niceness,” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner surprised me. (Ladies Homes Journal, June 2014 pgs. 21 23.) I wasn’t prepared for her insights about “niceness” which were deeper than one might expect from a homemaking magazine. The story began with the author
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No Failsafe Against Human Nature
Feb 26, 2018
Several years ago, a woman, who would later become the first female governor of Oregon, snapped at my observation that politics would be better off without political parties. People should vote directly for candidates without needing approval from an “old boy” network, I said.
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Feast Or Famine
Feb 22, 2018
Never ask a carnivore chef if the restaurant can accommodate a vegetarian His or her idea of feeding one is tantamount to handing the guest a head of lettuce and saying, “My work here is done.” The chef at my retirement center falls into this category. He’s nev
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The Butterfly Effect
Feb 20, 2018
We’ve all heard about the butterfly effect: a butterfly flaps its wings in New Mexico and causes a hurricane in China. The expression seems mystical, like a Japanese koan, but it’s simply a matter of cause and effect. One of the best examples starts with a dress. In the 18th c
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Billionaires Who Think Small
Feb 19, 2018
Using wealth to build monuments to oneself isn’t easy. A person has to work to spend with panache, because bragging rights are becoming competitive. Recently, a Saudi Prince spent $450.3 million at Christie’s for Leonardo da Vinci’s, Salvador Mundi. (Click)
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Fire And Fury — Donald Trump’s Nuclear Strategy
Feb 16, 2018
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton described Donald Trump as “temperamentally unsuited” for the office. How prescient her words were. Most of us now know the holder of the nation’s highest office is, indeed, temperamentally unsuited. Neither a prudent n
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Words, Words, Words, I’m Never Sick Of Words
Feb 14, 2018
I have a program on my computer that critiques my writing. All too frequently, it gives me a red mark for sentences that are too long or for a vocabulary it says might challenge the average reader. The computer assumes I want to appeal to the average reader. And, I d
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Beauty May Be Truth, But It Isn’t Always Pretty
Feb 13, 2018
My last official portrait appears on my blog page. Seventy-three at the time, I knew I was old, but wasn’t prepared when the photographer pulled out a “soft” lens for the shoot. He said he’d take a few images with it. I might like them better. The proofs showed 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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