Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
More In Common Than Realized
Jan 21, 2014
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During the Christmas holidays, I had coffee with a woman who marveled that I had time to read the many articles and books I refer to in my daily blogs. My response was to shrug and say that using other people’s ideas as a basis for my own was easier than being original. I wasn’t
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Prisoners Of Technology
Jan 17, 2014
A few evenings ago I watched a television program about a group of New York police officers who were obliged to perform their sleuthing duties while wearing hazmat suits. Seeing them at their computers or attempting to answer cell phones through protective gloves and helmets provided
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A Father and Daughter
Jan 16, 2014
In 1999, Dava Sobel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Galileo’s Daughter, and I was lucky enough to find a copy in my neighborhood library box. At the time, it was hailed as a “wonderful narrative filled with outsized characters all marching toward a booming climax.” (The
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A Tribute To Unreasonable Minds
Jan 15, 2014
Elon Musk, creator of Pay Pal, the electric car, Tesla, and SpaceX, a commercial enterprise for space exploration, has come up with a unique description for the creative mind. In his view such a mind isn’t satisfied with fitting old parts together in new way. A creative mind throws
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Being A Woman Ain’t For Sissies
Jan 14, 2014
To be appalled by the restricted lives women live in the Middle East is easy because the rules governing their lives are so schizophrenic. Take Saudi Arabia, for example. Women are allowed careers, but they aren’t allowed to drive, which effectively prevents them from getting to and
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Mysteries Of The Week
Jan 13, 2014
Edith Wharton once said, “What’s the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose ‘em out.” Well, how right she is. I’ve encountered two mysteries within the past few days that leave me scratching my head. As the experiences may be of use to my fellow w
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Failure As The First Step To Success
Jan 10, 2014
When I was a teacher, I impressed upon my students that failure was part of the learning process. “Imagine where you’d be today,” I’d tell them, “if, as an infant, you were afraid of falling and skinning your knees to the extent that you decided to stay in your crib. Failure
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A Brief Theory Of Glamour
Jan 09, 2014
According to writer Jenny Diski, very few “animals, as far as we know, edit reality. Survival in the natural world is about knowing what’s what and whether it wants to eat you.” (“Bewitched” by Jenny Diski, Harper’s, Dec. 2014, pg. 96.) Her observation is part of a r
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Norman Mailer’s Hubris
Jan 07, 2014
Prior to the Christmas holidays, I had coffee with a friend who announced she was reading a biography on Norman Mailer. I confess, I’ve never read his novels, the most famous being The Executioner’s Song and The Naked and The Dead; but I am familiar with his essays and columns and
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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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