Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Wiki-Peek
Dec 09, 2015
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The other day, a wide-eyed employee at my retirement center approached me as I was headed for the dining room. “I just looked you up on Wikipedia. Gosh, I didn’t know your were famous.” I laughed. Being on Wikipedia doesn’t make me famous. In fact, I recall an insider
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Klingon And Beyond
Dec 08, 2015
When I was a kid, my friends and I spoke in pig Latin when we wanted privacy while others were present. The rules were simple and familiar to many, though in our smugness, we weren’t aware of that until our 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Brown, slapped us down with a few pig Latin phra
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John Lennon Wore A Garter
Dec 07, 2015
Several years ago, an English friend let drop he’d been knighted by the Queen and given the highest rank of Most Noble Order of the Garter. I was so impressed, I made Sir Ian Dunbar, my friend, a magistrate in my novel, Gothic Spring, and charged him with the task of conducting th
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Stars On Your Plate
Dec 04, 2015
I’ve always wondered how a company famous as a tire manufacturer got into the culinary business and had the power to make or break the reputation of a famous chef. According to writer Sam Kashner, the business began in 1900 when two brothers, competitive auto racers, invented deta
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A New Game Afoot
Dec 03, 2015
One of my readers, unhappy with my last two blogs on political correctness (blogs 6/23/15 & 8/10/15), sent me an article from the Atlantic Monthly which opposed my view. (“The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Kukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, Atlantic Monthly, September 2
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Smartphones: The Rise And Fall Of Humanity?
Dec 01, 2015
I may have mentioned earlier that the house cleaning chicks at the retirement center where I live laugh at my flip top cell phone because it does nothing but allow me to make phone calls. Yesterday I found the pair of them on a break, crouching against a wall. Neither was talking.
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Unicorns And Ladies Of The Night
Nov 30, 2015
Do unicorns exist? In Silicon Valley, they do. Unicorns are tech start-ups that begin with a billion dollars or more of venture capital behind them. In fact, there are more unicorns there than Harry Potter has seen in his world because, at the moment, tech is ripe with specula
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Venture Capitalism For The Poor
Nov 27, 2015
I wish I could mandate that only those who have lived in poverty be allowed to make laws regarding the poor. In “Getting Jobbed,” Virginia Sole-Smith outlines the absurdities that result when myths about the poor are translated into law by the Congress. (Harper’s, October, 201
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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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