Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Young Blood
Jun 18, 2014
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The other day at the mall, I was buying postage stamps from the same woman who’s been behind the counter of the little shop for years. The place is usually busy so we’ve never stopped to chat, but on that day, she and I were alone. As I handed her the money for my purchase
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Let Woebegon
Jun 17, 2014
If a reader of this blog has never listened to the radio broadcast, A Prairie Home Companion and heard Garrison Keillor’s stories of Lake Wobegon, I urge you to remedy the situation. Keillor is part of a long and illustrious line of American humorists of the 20-21st Century that s
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Freedom Has A Price
Jun 16, 2014
I have long been an admirer of the cold war’s great strategist, George Frost Kennan (See blog 1/4/2012). He was the mastermind behind the policy of Russian containment after World War II and among the first to see that the atomic bomb had irrevocably changed the politics of war.
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The Wages Of Sin
Jun 13, 2014
Recently, the sultan of Brunei decreed that the country will return to the harshest form of Islamic Sharia law, a ruling to be imposed upon Christians and Buddhists alike who make up 30% of the country’s population. Besides jailing and flogging, limb amputations will be imposed
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Of Failure And Thoroughbreds
Jun 11, 2014
Today I’m uncertain about whether or not I’ve done a good thing or a bad thing. A friend has completed his second novel and I have encouraged him to send it out to publishers. His first book was self-published and he seemed happy enough with that launch, so who am I to interfe
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A Penny Saved
Jun 10, 2014
I’ve always been a saver. I thank my dad for the habit. When I was about 8 or 9, he marched me — still clutching my birthday money — into Bank of America to open a savings account. Ours was a small town but even so, when I saw the carpeted interior and marble pilla
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Women Power
Jun 09, 2014
Twenty years ago, after a 100 days of slaughter, Rwanda’s ethnic war left the country in ruins. So many men had been killed that women made up 70% of the population. The boys who grew up during the struggle watched as their mothers faced enormous hardships to feed their famili
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A Writer’s Quest
Jun 06, 2014
As I read the latest edition of The New Republic which featured remarks about three writers — FranzKafka, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Virginia Woolf — I concluded they all agreed that writing is work. Kafka struggled deep into the night so that he might labor without distr
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Cloned Children
Jun 04, 2014
Silly as it seems, I’ve begun to feel a growing curiosity about the fate of my books. (See blog 1/13/14) I wonder where they go when they are sold. Did the readers enjoy them? Were the books shared with friends or left abandoned in the rain? (See blog 12/6/13) Recently o
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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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