Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
If God Exists
Jul 27, 2017
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Maybe it’s because I live alone, but I spend a good deal of time arguing with my reading material, especially those essays or books that are nonfiction. My complaints aren’t content to be voiced in my head but are expressed out loud, as if the author were perched in the armchair a
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Penny Pinching Your Retirement Account
Jul 26, 2017
Yesterday, I offered a few savings suggestions to pad your retirement account. (Blog 8/8/2016) Today, I’m going to recount a few ways to protect income after you’ve retired. Elizabeth O’Brien encourages us to plan for the unpredictable by setting aside money for emergencies
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A New Theory Of Time And Brain Relativity
Jul 25, 2017
On a recent Saturday, I escaped from the retirement center with two delightful fellow inmates. I wanted to learn how to ride a bus, something I hadn’t done in years. Fortunately my new friends were game to show me the ropes. One supplied me with a ticket. The other gave me ins
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Laughter Is The Cure
Jul 24, 2017
My material grandmother used to warn her daughter that by laughing so much her teeth might freeze — no easy feat in the tropical country like Costa Rica. Happily the threat didn’t dissuade my mother who loves to laugh to this day. As she’s passed her 100 birthday, it’s
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“Cool it!” Some Very Good Advice
Jul 21, 2017
My mother turned 98 in February. She does pretty well for her age but of late, I’ve noticed changes. She has trouble finding words to express herself and little skills, like knowing how to use a knife and fork, sometimes escapes her. When I intervene by filling in the missing word o
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Once Upon A Time
Jul 20, 2017
The last time I visited my mother, I spent a lot of time searching for her glasses. She’s legally blind, so the glasses don’t provide much benefit; but she was upset when she couldn’t find them. I rummaged in the obvious places then moved on to her microwave. Nothing there. Fi
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Pinching Pennies Or Pennies From Heaven?
Jul 19, 2017
When I was a senior in college, I earned my tuition by working as the assistant to the woman in charge of food and dormitory services. Originally, she’d owned a restaurant in New York but came to Oregon when her husband got a promotion. She found the city too sleepy for her liki
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The Secret of Friday Lunches
Jul 18, 2017
THE SECRET OF FRIDAY LUNCHES Yesterday, I didn’t take my usual walk through the park. I walked to my bank instead. It took me through an area I seldom pass and I was surprised to discover the changes taking place. Several businesses, most of them restaurants, had sprung up and as Iâ
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On Parting
Jul 17, 2017
Yesterday my neighbor of almost twenty years moved away. She was a paranoid schizophrenic who often fought taking her medications. Sometimes, during a fearful spell, she’d call to ask me to sit with her. I watched, sometimes for hours, while she wept, or laughed or ranted about bein
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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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