Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Penny Saved
Jun 10, 2014
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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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Old As Dirt
Jun 02, 2014
Actress Diane Keaton has a new memoir out, “Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty.” In it she goes over her now familiar history: her love affairs with Warren Beatty, Al Pacino and Woody Allen, for example. She talks, too, about aging and about one blog writer’s comment that was
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Satanic Verses — A Dark Anniversary
May 30, 2014
It’s been 25 years since Salman Rushdie published his novel Satanic Verses and Iran’s head of state, the Ayatollah Khomeini, responded by charging him with blasphemy and placing a death sentence upon his head. Not surprisingly, Rushdie went into hiding when he heard the news. Th
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What William Binney Knows About Proper Channels
May 28, 2014
When Senator Diane Feinstein expressed her outrage at Edward Snowden because he’d failed to take his concern about the NSA through the proper channels and reached out to the press, she was guilty of short term memory loss. In 2001, William Binney, a 30 year-old veteran of the agen
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Ethics And Science
May 27, 2014
Edward Snowden’s revelations about our government’s indiscriminate spying has rekindled the debate about research and ethics. Tom Leinster, a mathematician who teaches at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland challenges the opinions of some of his colleagues when they insist t
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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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