Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
That Is The Question
Sep 22, 2017
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I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a memoir. Not the story of my life. Nothing is so extraordinary in my existence that it merits a book. But a booklet about my four years abroad might be of interest to others. I left for Europe in the early 1960s and returned nearly fo
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A Walk On The Dark Side
Sep 21, 2017
One of the important issues in the 21st Century is how to preserve personal privacy. Microsoft, for example, is offering Windows 10 for free but in exchange, its default setting gives the software permission to “pass your data to Microsoft’s servers, gobble up your bandwidth and p
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Making Dad Proud
Sep 20, 2017
A while ago, I wrote a blog mourning the passing of Tony Hillerman (9/25/12) and how, unlike him, many writers of mystery novels give us complex plots but protagonists with little depth. They forget readers have to care about their sleuths, enough to make them flinch when the door to
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Quilt Story
Sep 19, 2017
Turning the last page of the August edition of Money Magazine, I noticed an article, “Money Well Spent,” written by a quilter, Cindy Dawn. (2015 pg. 84). In 1983, while doing her military service in Germany, she stumbled upon the sale of a Pfaff sewing machine. She was 24 and hadn
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Too Tartt For Me
Sep 18, 2017
Recently, I discovered that on Amazon’s book rankings, the works of John Keats and William Wordsworth are listed 796,426 and 2,337,250 respectively, only slightly higher than mine. (“Counter Culture,” by Caleb Crain, Harper’s, July 2015 pg.82.) Naturally, I, a modest wr
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Crime, Punishment And The Human Brain
Sep 15, 2017
Situational dynamics is a proven way to seduce good people into doing bad things, a discovery that began as an experiment and was later documented in The Lucifer Effect, by Phillip Zimbardo in 2007. The study upon which the book was based, and which will be dramatized this month a
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Watson: Seeing Michelin Stars
Sep 14, 2017
Yesterday, I had lunch with my retirement center gaggle of men, all over 90. (Blog 7/15/15) As the day was sunny, they were seated near a window. One had ordered a bowl of soup; the other sat before a cup of coffee; a third had grabbed a boiled egg from the salad counter. When m
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A Life Measured In Coffee Spoons
Sep 13, 2017
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” written by a 22 year-old T. S. Eliot, turns a hundred this year. A brilliant poem, according to those who keep the cannon, though many despaired it was written by a man deemed a fascists, whose title character was named after a furniture
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Let No Man Put Asunder
Sep 12, 2017
There’s a gaggle of men, all over 90, who hang together at my retirement center. Often, I join them for coffee and the laughter can get pretty rowdy. Sometimes, though, I’ll find one of them dozing in an overstuffed chair in the lobby. Whichever one it is, I always hope he
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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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