Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Men Behaving Badly
Feb 02, 2015
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My computer is behaving badly this week. It’s not anything I’ve done. I haven’t stuck my tongue out at it. I haven’t kicked the thing. It’s having a fit on its own and I’ve got 3 experts working on the problem. That a computer can upset a person’s life in a na
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When Is A Story A Soap Opera?
Jan 30, 2015
Well yes, (yawn) Downton Abbey has returned for a new season on public television. I quit watching after year 3 when the heir to the estate died in a car accident. Frankly, I was never fond of any character, except Maggie Smith’s. The rest are too bland or too precious to hold
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Pro Choice That Everyone Can Approve
Jan 29, 2015
As my play, “Woman on the Scarlet Beast,” goes public, there’s another role my director is about to assume: becoming a mother. If the baby reads the calendar, it should arrive soon after the play ends. I’m hoping it is a well-behaved child and won’t arrive before it is s
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A Poor Man’s Life
Jan 28, 2015
I got my annual letter from Social Security the other day. Instead of going up the 2% predicted for retirees, I am going to receive $15 a month less. Oh, I got my incremental rise, like everyone else, but my medical insurance rose high enough to eat the increment. I’m not comp
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A Longing To Be Loved
Jan 27, 2015
Recently, I exchanged messages on Facebook with a young man from India. He’d recently lost his virginity and felt guilty, but mostly his anxiety came from not knowing how the girl felt about the experience. He didn’t love the young woman but had been carried away by his emotio
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DNA And You
Jan 26, 2015
I’m sure most of us have made a computer mistake similar to the one I made recently. You punch in a password to a secure site and the computer spits it back as invalid. You try again, thinking you’ve mistyped a letter, but the machine doesn’t budge an inch. “Have you forgo
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Anatomy Of A Play — XI
Jan 22, 2015
The actors are in place, the stage is set and the curtain on my play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast is about to open. Whether it will be treated kindly by the public or die in its first performance is something I am unable to predict. But whether I succeed or fail, I will have achiev
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A Lesson For The New Year
Jan 21, 2015
At the turn of the New Year, an acquaintance wrote a long piece on Facebook which expressed his disillusionment with the human race, accusing us of being liars and users in whom he had no trust. Needless to say, I thought his judgment overly harsh and wondered that a man with so m
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A Writer Writes Because…
Jan 20, 2015
Not long after I moved into my retirement center, a resident who’d learned I write novels, suggested I contribute a few to the in-house library. I declined, explaining that most of my sales were e-sales and that I made pennies per book. I couldn’t afford to give paperbacks a
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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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