Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Blogger’s Life
Nov 12, 2014
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One of my blog readers sent me a writer’s comment on the art of blogging. Barry Ritholtz has been producing a financial blog, Big Picture, for over 10 years. As chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management and the author of Bailout Nation, the writer has credentials wh
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Good Enough
Nov 11, 2014
Yesterday a friend called and by her hesitant manner, I knew she wanted a favor. Eventually, she got to her point. She wanted me to have coffee with her friend who was writing her first book and who wanted my advice on how to proceed. I agreed to meet this friend, of course. A
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Courage At Any Age
Nov 10, 2014
During a recent lunch date with my mother, who is 98, she admitted to a growing sense of vulnerability. Her memory was fading and she had difficulty finding the words she needed. This loss of self, she admitted, was a cruel penalty for having a long life. Stunned by her candor
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Publish And Perish
Nov 07, 2014
Nearly a year ago, I wrote a blog about a group of scientists who decided to break the stranglehold research journals have in deciding whose work receives public recognition and whose work doesn’t (Blog 1/1/13) What emerged was a suite of journals covering all areas of science a
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Black Holes In The Universe
Nov 06, 2014
A small news item with huge potential consequences appeared in the press the other day. It touched upon the unified theory of everything, the quest for an understanding that would explain how electromagnetism, strong and weak forces in nature and gravity work together. (Blog 10/21/1
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Laugh Clown Laugh
Nov 05, 2014
I have a friend who in his youth belonged to a comedy improvisational group. Their performance involved asking the audience to supply plots or characters which the actors would turn into extemporaneous skits. What resulted always ranked somewhere on a scale between funny to hilari
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Much Ado About Nothing
Nov 04, 2014
Cries of alarm, protest and horror rattled New York elites recently when Aby Rosen, the man who owns the Seagram’s building, wanted to remove a wall hanging, originally a ballet theater backdrop, purportedly painted by Pablo Picasso. The performance ended, the hanging landed as a
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Creativity And The Patch
Nov 03, 2014
Whenever my co-host, Susan Stoner, and I sit down to discuss the venue for another of our YouTube book review series Just Read It, the air crackles with good vibes. Collaboration is something novelists seldom get to experience and while I enjoy the contemplative times of writing a
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A Tale For Halloween
Oct 31, 2014
Tonight is Halloween so it’s time for a scary tale. But this one isn’t about ghosts and goblins. It’s a tale far more horrible. It’s about a feminine myth that has kept women from reaching their full potential. We start with Hysteria, the Greek word for muse. Literal
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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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