Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Emails: Sorting The Chaff From The Wheat
Jun 08, 2015
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One of the lovely benefits of emails is that I can leave a message for someone to pick up at their leisure. Phones are a gamble. A ring might interrupt someone’s shower, or nap, or a family argument. No matter how polite my reception, I fear I might be an intruder. Sending
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Adu And Not Adieu
Jun 05, 2015
I’ve had a new doctor for the past year, a young woman in her thirties. My first medical exam with her turned up no interesting ailments or complaints, so this year she decided to expand her search by giving me one of those crude, mental fitness tests. Apparently, I passed becau
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Bingo Forever
Jun 04, 2015
The quality of retirement establishments varies greatly. Some insist that difference depends on whether or not a company is non-profit or for-profit. Years ago, my mother moved into a retirement center run by the Catholic Church. Later it was sold to a for-profit organization.
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Between The Spaces
Jun 03, 2015
Recently, I shared research that compared the benefits of meditation to other activities that focused the mind. That research found mediation had no significant advantage over other relaxation techniques, like listening to music. (Blog 5/7/15) Despite that report, I ended the
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Numbers That Don’t Count
Jun 01, 2015
A Facebook friend requested that l like her Facebook fan page, the site where she promotes her books. She said she’d nearly reached 7,000 and hoped a few of us would put her over the top. My eyes popped when I saw the number. I have a fan page on Facebook. My likes stand at
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Law And Order
May 29, 2015
In her review of two new books*, Laura Kipnis discusses the distinction between guilt and shame. (“The Deep, Dark, Ugly Thing,” by Laura Kipnis, Harper’s, May 2015, pg. 93) Guilt is an internal standard of personal values. Shame results from a violation of group standards.
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Let The Patriots Act
May 28, 2015
While Edward Snowden continues to live a productive life in Russia, he remains an outlaw in his own country. If he were to return to the United States, he would be prosecuted for revealing government secrets even though a federal court has ruled that the National Security Agency (NS
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On Nature’s Perversity
May 27, 2015
There’s a line in the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam that, in flowery language says, it would be great if we could remake the world nearer to our heart’s desire. I think it’s a fair objective, particularly as Nature’s design often diverges from my ideal. If I ruled the world,
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New Doesn’t Mean Better
May 26, 2015
Given the complications that arise with electronic software and hardware — its cost, its unpredictable level of service, its arcane instructions, not to mention the cost of maintenance and repair — it’s a wonder that electronics are so popular. Imagine how many vacuum
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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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