Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Day By Day
Nov 30, 2017
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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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Time For An Honest Chin-Wag
Nov 24, 2017
I have as many points of dissatisfaction with my body as there are stars in the night sky. Discontent with one’s self image seems to be a feminine curse. I recall, as a kid, finding my mother banging one hip against a bedroom wall, her face as solemn as a witness to a public hanging
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Money Has Its Price
Nov 22, 2017
Knowing the difference between good and bad debt can have a major impact on a person’s financial health. So writes Ben Steverman of Bloomber.com (Excerpted in The Week, August 14, 2015, pg. 33) Bad debt is credit card debt which imposes a higher interest rate than other types of loa
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Can Robots Make Us More Human?
Nov 21, 2017
At the retirement center the other day, I inadvertently offended a frail, elderly woman without meaning to. Looking into her eyes, I saw the distress I’d caused and offered her a smile as well as an apology. The smile seemed to have helped. Walking away, I wondered what a robot woul
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Ruminations On Good And Evil
Nov 20, 2017
After 4 years of flogging my allegory, “Agent of God,” it was selected for Under a Dark Sign, an anthology to be published in October 2015 by WolfSinger Press. The novelette had been given an honorable mention in 2012 in Allegory Magazine but otherwise had been passed over. I unde
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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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