Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
If You Build It Will They Come?
May 23, 2014
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A few day ago, Susan Stoner, author of the Sage Adair Mystery Series, her husband-cameraman husband George Slanina and I met to tape the first 4 videos of our new book series, Just Read It. Laurelhurst Village Assisted Living served as our host and we were joined by four guests to d
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The Dinosauer That Isn’t
May 22, 2014
Writer Michael Kingsley thinks one reason print newspapers may be headed for extinction like the dinosaur isn’t because of electronic competition but because of demographics. According to him, the older generation, accustomed to print media, is giving way to younger readers who are
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Elementary My Dear Watson
May 21, 2014
It’s official. Sherlock Holmes no longer belongs to Conan Doyle. He belongs to the world. So ruled a federal judge in Chicago last December when the estate of Sir Arthur sued Leslie Klinger, editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, over copyright violations. The ruling fol
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A Race for Everyone
May 20, 2014
It’s probably my imagination but people espousing cruel ideologies seem to be crawling out of the woodwork these days, whether it’s the politician in India who insists that women who are raped should be hanged http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/rape-comments-india-election
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What God Thinks Of Money
May 19, 2014
“Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12,” observes A. A. Gill in a recent article for Vanity Fair. (“Perfection Anxiety,” by A. A. Gill, Vanity Fair, May 2014 pgs. 120-122.) I would add, that as for the 12 year-old, the link between mon
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Faith And Reason
May 16, 2014
A Facebook friend shared a poster out of eastern Ukraine, recently, that purported Jews were being required to register their passports and records of property at a makeshift government headquarters in the rebel area of the country. As the language was foreign, I had no idea whether t
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Anatomy Of A Play II
May 15, 2014
My last blog about Woman on the Scarlet Beast dealt with the endless rejections a writer must face. (4/8/14) In the case of my play, it would be more accurate to say it was not so much rejected as ignored. I can understand cronyism. In the tightly knit world of theater, an unknown
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Getting Needled
May 14, 2014
I had a little fun with my blog recently talking about yoga breathing. (See blog 5/5/14) Nonetheless, studies about the various forms of Eastern medicine reveal the disciplines deserve respect. Experiments performed with mice are underway which suggest acupuncture may be useful as tre
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Another Sage Adair Historical Mystery
May 13, 2014
Black Drop, the fourth novel in Susan Stoner’s Sage Adair mystery series hits the bookstores this month. Set in the Pacific Northwest during the 1900s, Adair, an undercover agent for the Labor movement, is the hot on the trail of a would-be assassin. President Theodore Roosevelt is
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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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