Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Perils Of The High Ground
Apr 04, 2024
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A month before leaving public life, I published a critique on the media. At a retirement gathering soon after, a reporter asked why I’d waited until leaving office to share my views. Previously, I’d written other papers –one on property taxes and the other on Grand Jurie
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Is Trump More To Be Pitied?
Mar 28, 2024
Watching a reporter interview historian Timothy Snyder one evening, I sat up in my chair when he laid out his thoughts about Donald Trump’s strategy for the current 2024 Presidential election. Snyder presumed the former president knew he would lose the contest and was taking unp
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8000 Years Of Misogeny
Mar 21, 2024
I’ve given up worrying about the existence of God. Discussions about diety I leave to the young. After decades spent thinking about the inscrutable, all I gleaned from religious precept was that misogyny rises from it like a noxious odor. I’m not alone in this opinion. Donna N
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Happy 90th Gloria!
Mar 14, 2024
A writer near my age admitted on Facebook that though she loved the feel of paper between her fingers and the smell of a new book, she’d shifted to an e-reader. No longer comfortable with small print, she needed an electronic device to adjust for size. Much in life is a tradeof
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A Note From The Underground
Mar 07, 2024
A friend sent me the name of a woman she thought would make a wonderful guest for my book Vlog, Just Read It. A historian with a new volume published about the lives of notable women, her appearance on the program seemed apt, so, I extended an invitation for her to appear in an upcomi
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A Case For Frozen Blue Berries
Feb 29, 2024
I shared a person’s comment on Facebook the other day that called for the end of perks to members of Congress until they started legislating. Many on my thread favored the idea. No one opposed it. The citizenry, it appeared, was united in its impatience with its leaders. Unfortuna
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Consciousness Of The Third Kind
Feb 22, 2024
A young television commentator recently dissed Joe Biden’s chances of winning reelection in 2024. Barely old enough to qualify as a voter, she had no qualms about her prediction. She explained the President risked losing young voters because he defended Israel’s war on Gaza. He wa
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Dementia And Communion
Feb 15, 2024
A question lingers in my mind three years after my mother’s death. Was I a dutiful daughter in her declining years? An earlier blog recounts an incident when I failed her. She’d taken a spill as the pair of us left a restaurant during a rain storm. She was 101 at the time an
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Democracy For Dummies
Feb 08, 2024
I know him. When he was a teenager, I crawled around in his head as his English Teacher. Sadly, months ago, his wife of many years died unexpectedly. A man in his 70s, he fell into a well of grief so deep he considered joining her. I held my breath as he struggled to find his
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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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