Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Back To The Future
Sep 02, 2014
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Recently, I deplored the way Twitter symbols had infiltrated our language. (Blog 8/26/14) But I was an innocent. I’d no idea how emojis, those little symbols used to clarify an electronic messages, had exploded into a complete language seen not only on social networks but
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America The Beautiful
Sep 01, 2014
The face of the migrant worker is no longer solely that of the Latino or the undereducated. It’s the face of the elderly who were caught in the tsunami of the 2008-09 Great Recession. They are school teachers, white collar executives, or couples with nest eggs that were demoli
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No Apology Necessary
Aug 29, 2014
Recently, two-term Congresswoman, Renee Ellmers of North Carolina gave a speech on the topic of how to bring more women into the Republican Party. Her comments, however, were directed toward her male counterparts: Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level… Many o
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The Invasion Of The Inversion
Aug 28, 2014
Recently, I wrote that if corporations are people, they need to be better Americans. (blog 8/15/14) They need to pay their taxes, for example. Allan Sloan’s new article in Fortune explains one way some companies are shirking their duty. (“Positively Un-American,” by Allan
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Where The Public Rules
Aug 27, 2014
While I cling to my hope of finding a big agent for my 4th novel, I know the trend is against me. Self-publishing is becoming so acceptable, that big publishers are getting into the business. Even the New York Times Bestseller list includes self-published authors, something that w
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The Hash Isn’t For Eating
Aug 26, 2014
I sat down to lunch with a former student recently. He’s now a tenured English professor at a major university, so we fell into a discussion about how digital communication is transforming our language. After we’d finished our quiches and said our goodbyes, I came home com
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Rich Man, Poor Man
Aug 22, 2014
One of my favorite pastimes when I was a teenager was to cruise Sunset Boulevard, starting from the beach at Santa Monica, California and following the winding road all the way to where it ended at the Los Angeles railway station. The scenery along the route was varied. The low be
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Vampires Are Alive And Well
Aug 21, 2014
I’ve just finished an article in Harper’s about life coaches. Though largely unschooled and uncredentialed, these people make a living as cheerleaders for those who can afford to pay. Their role is to tell strangers how to live their lives. Nice work if you can get it. (“50,
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Anatomy Of A Play – Part V
Aug 20, 2014
I knew the director I was about to meet hadn’t been born when I first sat down to write my play. Young enough to be my granddaughter, the giddy days of the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment was a footnote in her history book. That baby boomers were once flower children mig
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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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