Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A New Key To Genetic Coding: Broccoli
Aug 01, 2014
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Periodically, over the years, a group of former political colleagues and I have gathered for lunch to share the events in our lives and the latest political gossip. The restaurant where we used to meet was known for serving healthy, organic foods but we didn’t go there for the men
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Meditation About Walls
Jul 31, 2014
On October 26, 1971, Claire Booth Luce — former member of Congress, Ambassador to Italy, advisor to Presidents, author of several books and the successful play, The Women, as well as being a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor — found herself on a platform wit
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A Strong Warning
Jul 30, 2014
Winning the Pulitzer Prize won’t ensure a writer respect from a certain cadre of critics, those who owe their high perches to their employment rather than to any literary achievement. For good or ill, these arbitrators of taste imagine they determine what passes for fine literat
Continue Reading →Anatomy Of A Play – Part IV
Jul 29, 2014
When I last wrote about my play, I’d emailed the manuscript to the Artistic Director of the Post5 Theatre. Soon after, I was assailed by doubts. Maybe I’d sent it too soon, without checking for typing errors, or dropped lines or the need to rewrite entire scenes. Dou
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It’s A Whole New World
Jul 28, 2014
I doubt many would be surprised to learn that the processes of investigation and revelation occur in different parts of the brain. Investigation involves a system of methodical trial and error while revelation is an “ah ha” moment that comes at the speed of light, as if a switch
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Need For A National Conversation About Money
Jul 25, 2014
Unlike the past when technology eliminated some jobs but created others, the trend in innovation today is toward job elimination. (“In the Future, Will There be Any Work Left for People to do?” by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June 16, 2014, pgs. 193-200.) According to writer Geoff Col
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Need For A National Conversation About Money
Jul 25, 2014
Unlike the past when technology eliminated some jobs but created others, the trend today is toward job elimination, according to writer Geoff Colvin. (“In the Future, Will There be Any Work Left for People to do?” by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June 16, 2014, pgs. 193-200.) The chang
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T’is A Puzzlement
Jul 24, 2014
In a recent Vatican sermon, Pope Francis chastised childless couples for pursuing personal happiness and showering affection on their pets. (“Pope Francis: Criticizing childless couples,” The Week, June 20, 2014, pg. 17.) I had to smile because his remarks seemed to imply that
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Being Literal About Literally
Jul 23, 2014
Unfortunately for language purists the “grammatically challenged” continue to contaminate the way we write and speak and have done so since the first, primitive grunt. I confess I am one of the challenged. Recently, I submitted a manuscript for technical review and it was retu
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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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