Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Self-Evident Truths
Sep 20, 2022
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Most of us remember January 6, 2021, when Republican Senator Josh Hawley raised his fist to indicate support for insurrectionists gathered outside the Capital. Many of his fellow Americans were shocked by his gesture, but not all. Recently, Hawley felt enough wind at his back to t
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Make Luck The Reality
Sep 15, 2022
Knowledge is power said Elizabethan Francis Bacon. The father of empiricism, or modern science, put his faith in the observable rather than the spiritual. Studying nature was enough to glorify God, he said. Since then, mankind has amassed a store of information in subjects far ranging
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The Three Graces Of The Queen
Sep 13, 2022
Getting Lost to Find Home, my upcoming memoir, will reveal my childhood relationship with my father was a rocky one. We didn’t make our separate peace until I’d graduated from college. Even then, communication wasn’t easy. He was an Indiana farm boy with an 8th-grade educa
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Nickle And Dimed For America
Sep 08, 2022
When I complained my cell phone didn’t come with a user’s manual, the woman seated beside me at the retirement center suggested I upgrade to a smartphone. “I’m not smart enough for a smartphone,” I wailed. I got no sympathy. “If you don’t get on the caboose, you can’t
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How To Love A Wall
Sep 06, 2022
My high school math teacher, Mr. Crawford, taught me a great lesson in life. I don’t remember much about the right angles of an isosceles triangle, but I do remember his adage: Your freedom stops where somebody’s chin begins. Personal freedom isn’t absolute. If I am to have it,
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Memoir: The Book Of Me
Sep 01, 2022
“Politician Won’t Seek Higher Office,” the headline screamed. The reference was to an interview where I’d said I wasn’t moving my office to a 17th-floor high rise along with my fellow county commissioners. I hated elevators and worried about public access. The newspaper ba
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Warning To A Future Tenant
Aug 30, 2022
My Salinger Year is an entertaining film. In this coming-of-age story, a young poet is hired at a literary agency that represents J. D. Salinger. Her job is to shred unread letters from the author’s fans, but after scanning a heartfelt few, she decides to answer them. The plot unr
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The Age Of Unenlightenment
Aug 25, 2022
According to historians, the Age of Enlightenment dominated western thinking in the 17 and 18th centuries. Coming on the heels of the Scientific Revolution, it valued evidence of the senses, individual liberty, religious tolerance, and a separation between church and state. The major
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Criminal Minds
Aug 23, 2022
Sometimes, in the course of human affairs, actions are so preposterous, laws don’t exist to prevent them from occurring. For example, no one has suggested we need a rule that bars killer whales from competing in Olympic swimming competitions. Dogs aren’t required to have drive
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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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