Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Junk Food: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Jan 13, 2016
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There’s a storm brewing at the retirement center. It’s a small one. 4 vegetarians have gathered and there’s talk of revolution. We’re sick of looking at all those drawn and quartered and fried dead animals that pass for food and want choices that are healthy. Surprisin
Continue Reading →A Temporary Rage/ A Basic Decency
Jan 12, 2016
I have known only a few African Americans in my life. All of them have been bright. Some of them were funny and a few of them prickly. They added to my joy and I’m sorry to say, they have all drifted away. The glue necessary to hold us together, something beyond respect, w
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Finding An Audience
Jan 11, 2016
I’m no genius, but I like to think people who read my blogs are. Why? Because if they find me, they discover curious items about the world, together with references that will allow them to pursue further information, if they choose. Blogs featuring boxing cats and the dogs t
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A Lesson From Marcel Proust
Jan 08, 2016
Recently, one of my blog readers sent me the link to comments made by Hannah MacDonald, head of an English publishing house. She was encouraging her colleagues to be kinder to writers. One wouldn’t want to squelch a budding Emily Dickenson, Jane Austin, or J. K. Rowling. (Click)
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Awakening Hearts And Minds
Jan 06, 2016
Leslee Urdwin has finished a movie about rape, Daughter of India. Jyoti Singh was a 23 year-old medical student in New Delhi, India who was attacked on a private bus and, after being brutalized by a group of young men, was murdered by them. One of the offenders died while in polic
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Something Other Than Human
Jan 05, 2016
When I lived in England in the 1960s, I met a number of Polish people and their children who, having found a haven in England during World War II, had chosen not to repatriate to their home country after peace had been declared. Some of the parents continued to wear the mantel of a
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All WE Need To Know
Jan 04, 2016
It might be difficult to feel sorry for an exiled Russian oligarch who: 1) ripped off his native country by cornering some of its most valuable business assets; 2) sold them off for$8 billion and with his money bought equally valuable assists elsewhere in the world; 3) who lives in a
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Robot Etiquette For The New Year
Dec 31, 2015
As if she were a character in a short story by Franz Kafka, Emily Dreyfus woke up one morning to discover she was a robot. Instead of a face, she had an iPad screen. Instead of eyes, she used a camera to guide her, though it lacked peripheral vision. Instead of a mouth, she had
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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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