Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Consciousness Of The Third Kind
Feb 22, 2024
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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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The Rapture And The Inferno
Feb 01, 2024
Some people can be fooled some of the time, but not all of the people can be fooled all of the time unless they want to be. Evangelical Christians seem to be among the latter. They have every reason to doubt Donald Trump’s religious convictions. The number of fraud cases he has
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Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish
Jan 25, 2024
Like the boy who cried wolf, U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has long blamed oligarchs for weakening our democracy. Of late, his prognostications ring true. Vast fortunes concentrated in the hands of large corporations and a few individuals have weakened the middle class, leading the
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A Passage To America
Jan 18, 2024
In my mid-forties, one of my duties as the head of a local teachers union was to attend a national convention in Florida. My mother, in her sixties at the time, and, always eager to travel, suggested we take this opportunity to make a cross-country motor trip together. Though diff
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The Man Who’d Been of Use
Jan 11, 2024
A woman on my Facebook page announced her intention to live a more spiritual life in the coming year. The objective was noble, and I wondered how she intended to go about it. For me, spirituality is the daily practice of random acts of kindness. To illustrate, I offer an experienc
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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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