Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Victor/Victoria In Afghanistan
Jan 09, 2015
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After reading an excerpt from Jenny Nordberg’s book, The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan, I wanted to throw up my hands in despair. (“Hiding girls in plain sight,” The Week, December 5, 2014 pgs. 40-41, excerpted from The Underground G
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A Room With A View
Jan 08, 2015
When I moved to my retirement center, I soon became aware that a pecking order existed between those who live on the lower floors of the building and those who live on the higher ones. In fact, “What floor do you live on,” is the question most asked after an introduction. High
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Blowin’ In The Wind
Jan 07, 2015
Many years ago, when I headed a teachers’ union, I took on as my responsibilities not only the handling of members’ grievances but, where I could, I addressed their well-being, too. On one occasion I made grocery deliveries once a week to a single woman who was confined to her bed
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Neither An Angel Nor A Demon
Jan 06, 2015
Hamlet marveled, “What a piece of work is man,” but that isn’t the half of it. Two new books are out which talk about man’s place in the universe, both reviewed by Tim Flannery in Harper’s. Dian Ackerman, whose affinity for understanding nature is undisputed by most,
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When Harmony Brings No Accord
Jan 05, 2015
Recently, a reader shared an article with me by Gail Collins from the New York Times. (Click) Collins was ranting about the plight of working women who are pregnant. In one case, a female employee working at Wal-Mart’s was fired for carrying a bottle of water on the job in an ef
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Pennies On The Dollar
Jan 02, 2015
With the holiday season come and gone, it’s nice to know the period was marked by a little peace on earth. Hachette, 4th largest publishing house in the United States, and Amazon settled their long standing dispute over the selling price for eBooks. (Blog 9/25/14) The question i
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Anatomy Of A Play — X
Dec 31, 2014
During the interval between casting “Woman on the Scarlet Beast” and rehearsals, I moved to a retirement center. Much of the time, I spent unpacking boxes and attempting to restore normalcy to a life I had deliberately uprooted. Among my goals was to revive friendships that had
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The Knowledge
Dec 29, 2014
Recently, I arranged for a taxi to take me to an evening event. Having called early in the morning, I didn’t anticipate any problems, but when the time set for my pick up passed and no cab was in sight, I dialed the company’s number to see what had gone wrong. The reply I rece
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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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