Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Operative Words Of Operatives
Oct 28, 2014
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Who knew? Among the government’s millions of documents, the CIA has a style guide to help agents write better reports. Apparently the MLA Style Sheet isn’t good enough for the spooks, so it’s invented its own. I’m not surprised. They’ve bent the language before (Bl
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Something’s In The Water
Oct 27, 2014
When I was a child and did something my father thought was stupid, he’d shake his head and say, “Must be something in the water.” He said it countless times before I was old enough to drink wine instead of water so his words never left me. I’m inclined to revive them again a
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Meditation And Other Empty Thoughts
Oct 24, 2014
My life is pretty hectic at the moment. Besides caring for my 98 year-old mom, there’s my play to worry about and preparations for my move to a retirement center. When I saw my calendar for the upcoming week, I threw up my hands. “Oh no. Not another lunch, coffee, movie!
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Secret Laws And Anarchy
Oct 23, 2014
While having lunch with a friend, I expressed frustration in my attempt to obtain a permit from the city that would allow a moving van to park in front of my house. The commission staffers overseeing the traffic department had no idea which division handled permits and so I stumbl
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On Broccoli And Free Will
Oct 22, 2014
While scientists attempt to map the human mind in a well-funded program called The Brain Activity Map Project (BAM), theologians and philosophers wonder if that mapping will give us a greater understanding of consciousness and free will than we have now. As writer and Pulitzer priz
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Walking Through Walls
Oct 21, 2014
We humans have curious minds and I use the word in two senses: 1) as minds that take an interest in the world around them, and 2) as minds being strange in themselves. Hamlet observed, “What a piece of work is man,” (Hamlet II, ii) and I couldn’t say it better. The entire
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The Price Of Hope
Oct 20, 2014
Each year when the time comes to renew my subscription to More Magazine, I equivocate. At 78, I’m too old to care about mascara that will make my eyelashes grow. I have naked, Mona Lisa eyes. I don’t mind. I no longer wish to paint a face “to meet the faces I shall meet.
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Spies In Sheep’s Clothing
Oct 17, 2014
Language is so wonderfully malleable. It can do almost anything except my dishes. Take Lewis Carroll’s, The Jaberwocky, for example. This tale about a fearsome beast is funny, not because of what the words say, but because of how they sound. “His vorpal blade went snicker
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This Isn’t Progress
Oct 16, 2014
By now, everyone is so familiar with genetic engineering that if we read some scientist had crossed an octopus with a watermelon to create a waterpus, we wouldn’t blink. We’d accept it because we’re already familiar with genetically altered tomatoes that look great but tastes
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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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