Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Get Away At Home: The Beauty Of Staycations
Dec 07, 2017
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Last week, I planned to board a bus and head for the city center. The art museum was displaying a dozen, old upright pianos that had been ornamented with the work of local artists. After the viewing, musicians would treat the audience to a piano concert. Unfortunately, I had the
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Pursuit Of A Mystery Leads To More Mystery
Dec 06, 2017
During my stay in England in my early twenties, I came down with a second attack of measles. While I was in quarantine, my fiancé left a novel outside my door, a favorite of his which he thought would ease my convalescence. The book was The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey, a
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Misalignment Of The Flesh
Dec 05, 2017
Sitting down to coffee with a woman at the retirement center the other day, she remarked about the crane working on the tower of a building nearby. I’d never seen the crane move and as we have a similar view, I asked how she came to see the work being done. “Oh.” She smiled.
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I Feel Your Pain
Dec 04, 2017
One afternoon, as a child out for a walk with my mother, I stepped on a bee. She assumed I’d done it deliberately, and perhaps I had. I was very young. I can’t remember. But I can remember how I felt when she asked me to imagine what the bee must have experienced when I trod on i
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Life On Another Planet
Dec 01, 2017
Last week, I had an experience that dropped me into an alternate reality. I was walking to my apartment at the retirement center, drifting along a sun lighted corridor lined with windows when, ahead of me, a young woman, a nurse by her uniform, appeared to be blocking the exit where
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Day By Day
Nov 30, 2017
Yesterday, I sat down to lunch with one of the remaining gaggle of oldsters at the retirement center. I wanted to assess how he was doing after the death of his friend. (Blog 10/29/15) I didn’t have to ask. His eyes told me, he was low. Nonetheless, he turned his attention to me.
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For The Judge
Nov 29, 2017
One of my gaggle of 3 older gentleman at the retirement center has died. (Blog 7/15/15) I feel his absence though I’d known him only a few months. He’d been a judge in his working life. His wife had died not long ago and he admitted he didn’t see much point in going on. The rema
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Due Process
Nov 28, 2017
A report about the success of the New Orleans charter schools caught my eye the other day. After Katrina and the destruction of many neighborhood classrooms, charter schools emerged with open enrollment to students regardless of their home addresses. That liberty freed children who li
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Jimmy Carter Always Had It Right
Nov 27, 2017
Recently, Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, held a press conference to announce his upcoming bout with brain cancer. His grace and courage was inspiring to everyone. What surprises me is the man had to be facing death before others recognized his remarkable qualit
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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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