Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Of Mice And Men
Mar 18, 2015
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Feeling sexy or brave? Maybe your cat is responsible. Toxoplasma gondil’s, a parasite carried in cat feces has been discovered to alter the brains of rats and mice so that they mistake a cat’s odor for an invitation to romance. Rodents that don’t run away from their arch
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What Is Genius?
Mar 17, 2015
Somewhere in my 50’s I decided to take up painting. One of my first classes was level 1 drawing. Students were given a Rembrandt etching and asked to copy it. The purpose of the exercise was to see how observant we were. Finishing the task early, I waited with a certain degree o
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Soothsayers With Nothing To Say
Mar 16, 2015
A friend sent me an announcement, recently, about a lecture on self-publishing offered by two women purported to be experts. One of the speakers wrote “epic” medieval fantasies and the other had authored tips for selling used books on Amazon. The latter claimed to have ear
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The Upright Runic “S” — Tsk, Tsk
Mar 12, 2015
My first novel, Heart Land is about to be republished with a new editor and in a new edition. The story is about the hyjinx of a boy, Oliver Larson, growing up in rural American in 1940, prior to World War 11. One of Oliver’s favorite hangouts is a bakery known as Ye Old Bak
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Death And The Blogsphere
Mar 11, 2015
March 24th will mark the 6th year of my daily blogging. I was giving myself a pat on the back the other day, when a reader sent me a blog by Tonni Bennett which specializes on subjects of interest to folks 60 and over ( http://www.timegoesby.net/) . The article noted that Andr
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How Grand Is The Jury?
Mar 10, 2015
There’s a classic joke in legal circles about a doctor on trial for malpractice. The prosecuting attorney reads down a list of 12 men, pausing to ask if each was the doctor’s patient. Each time, the man admits that each was. Then the prosecutor asks, “And are these men
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What’s Yours Is Mine
Mar 09, 2015
“Somewhere between plagiarism and homage,” writes Michael Kinsely, “there is a line.” (The Imitation Game,” by Michael Kinsley, Vanity Fair, March 2015, pg. 197) He raises an important point, and as a blogger who works from source material, I regularly question whether wha
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On DNA And Cats
Mar 06, 2015
23andMe was founded by Anne Wojcick and named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes that comprise the human DNA. She created the company because she believes people should have access to their biological data. The FDA disagrees and now her company is in a tussle with the governmen
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What’ll You Have, Hombre?
Mar 05, 2015
Being a vegetarian is something I don’t talk about much. The decision was mine and I made it when I was 11, to the chagrin of my mother. Back then, mealtimes became so cantankerous, she hauled me off to the doctor for a lecture on nutrition. Her strategy backfired. She
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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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