Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man
Oct 23, 2017
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Professor Higgins’ line from My Fair Lady asks why a woman can’t be more like a man. He sees women as frivolous, inferior creatures no real man could understand. But change the emphasis of his words and the question asks something different. Why can’t a woman be more lik
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When Scarcity Passes For Value
Oct 19, 2017
How does a ticket priced at $75 to a live theater performance end up costing $1400 on the street? The answer is scarcity. Being a miser, I think $75 for 1 to 2 hours of entertainment is pricy enough. I don’t pay that much to the woman who cleans my apartment and her service
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Richaphobia — Notes On The Bad Luck Of Being Rich
Oct 18, 2017
Americans have a strange relationship with money. Everyone wants to be rich but most resent those who are. Bernie Sanders would tie the wealthy to a pyre and light a match, even though he made over a million dollars last year. That schizophrenia between striving to be rich and hav
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Trudeau, NAFTA And Values
Oct 17, 2017
I’ve been a card-carrying member of the Labor Movement of a long, long time. The organization, however, can be doctrinaire and retrograde in its thinking. Unlike my brothers and sister, for example, I supported the NAFTA treaty. Yes, I acknowledged there’d be a disruption
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MOMA’S New Broom Sweeps Out More Than Intended
Oct 16, 2017
Once again, the deck chairs are being rearranged at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA). After the venerable Philippe de Montebello retired as director, Thomas Campbell (Blog 4/26/17) took his place, bringing with him a “new broom” approach to modernizing the institution. Hi
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Equality And Race
Oct 13, 2017
When I went in for my first cataract surgery, the nurse handed me a medical questionnaire. Among the boxes to be checked was the one that often gives me pause. Was I white or Hispanic? I never know what to do with these labels. (Blog 8/8/17) In the end, I checked the “whit
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Is There A Doctor In The House?
Oct 12, 2017
Facing the second of two cataract surgeries, I feel I’ve seen enough doctors for a while. Unfortunately, as one gets older, a person tends to see more, not less, of them. I should be happy. I have access to medical care when I need it. In some parts of the country, particularly
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Writing For Cats
Oct 11, 2017
I’ve written more than once about the games people play to get their books on The New York Times best-seller list. (Blog 4/10/14). The direct route, used for years by Evangelical writers, politicians, (Blog 1/14/16)) and well-known authors, like Jaqueline Suzanne and Wayne Dyer, i
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Finding Your Way Around The Short Story Market
Oct 10, 2017
Picking up on yesterday’s comments about where to publish a short story — in a periodical or an anthology – let me take a step back. Writers should recognize they are living in a time of significant change in short-story publishing. Fewer high-circulation magazines publish
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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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