Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Something Other Than Human
Jan 05, 2016
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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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Got Milk?
Dec 30, 2015
Donald Trump says Muslim’s in New Jersey cheered when the 911 towers went down. Despite the lack of evidence, he continues to say it with great conviction. Some people believe if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes true in some people’s minds. Certainly, the dairy indust
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John Malkovich And The Next 100 Years
Dec 29, 2015
I opened my computer recently to find an article about the actor, John Malkovich. His latest commercial, it said, won’t be released for 100 years. A snippet of the film provided shows the actor placing a bottle of perfume in a vault, then locking it. In the next frame, presuma
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When Numbers Don’t Count
Dec 28, 2015
One of the mixed blessings of the technological age is that we are trained to think in statistics and ratings figures. A computer can measure and quantify large numbers, so, today, almost anything can be ranked, even the trivial. “On a scale of 1- 10, how would rate your last oi
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The Family Of Man
Dec 24, 2015
When I was in college, I became aware of a popular publication called, The Family of Man. Between its covers were photographs from around the world, depicting how people in different countries, cultures and ages lived. No words accompanied the photographs and none were necessa
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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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