Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
How To Conquer The World
Jul 22, 2014
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The luxury fashion industry has been slow to warm up to the idea of selling their creations on the internet. They fear that making their designs available with a click of a mouse will detract from the snob appeal of exclusivity. And heaven forbid that designer labels should be fou
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A Nation Of Immigrants And Revolutionists
Jul 21, 2014
Now that we’re over the shock of Eric Cantor losing his House seat, we’re awakening to the realization that immigration reform, which he supported, won’t happen anytime soon. Money will continue to be wasted building a wall along our southern border. Rather than argue agains
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A Walk On The Wry Side
Jul 18, 2014
Most people were surprised by the political defeat of Eric Cantor in the Virginia Republican primary recently. Political pundits the previous night had yawned as they predicted the outcome: a cakewalk for Cantor. That’s the problem with pundits. They have no special wisdom.
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Cash-Rich Splits: A Frontier Where No Turbo Tax Can Go
Jul 17, 2014
Every year I pay to have someone prepare my taxes. I don’t use TurboTax because a friend’s experience left him tied in knots and feeling as if he’d been forced to waltz with an octopus. That’s why I’d rather pay to have my taxes done than wander alone through the bramb
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A Kind Heart And The Magic Of The Library Box
Jul 16, 2014
My blog of July 8, 2014 was about the effects of random acts of “niceness.” It told the story of one writer’s decision make a conscious effort to be kind to a stranger each day. When she opened her eyes to the opportunities, she discovered people all around her were performi
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Data Mining The Humanities
Jul 15, 2014
Academia is busily stirring another tempest in a tea pot as it attempts to assimilate technology into the teaching of humanities. The new approach is called digital humanities and the first problem is how to define it. At the moment the term includes everything from transcribing l
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Amazon’s Big Gamble — Backing Success
Jul 14, 2014
As my play nears production, my 4th novel goes nowhere while I search for an agent. Getting a big-time agent is at the top of my bucket list — someone out of New York or Chicago or San Francisco. I had a brush with one the other day, but she declined my manuscript because th
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The Price Of Success
Jul 11, 2014
Those of us who stand at the bottom of their climb to literary success may be surprised to learn that established writers continue to face rejection once they’ve made it to the top. Having produced 4 novels, George Orwell found it nearly impossible to publish Animal Farm, for exampl
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New Secrets Of A Long Life
Jul 09, 2014
Last Friday, the nation celebrated its 238th birthday with the usual fanfare. However battered our democracy may seem at times, it’s still a work in progress and looks to the future. Generations upon generations of citizens have carried this political experiment forward, though
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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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