Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Mysteries Of The Week
Jan 13, 2014
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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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You Must Remember This
Jan 06, 2014
“You remember the time when…” So began my coffee conversation with my friend who was visiting from Paris during the holidays. It’s a phrase often repeated when people meet after a gap between encounters. Digging up old memories is a bonding experience and one, it turns out, th
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Resolution To Put Ourselves First
Jan 03, 2014
I love science. I really do, but sometimes, I wish all those researchers would just shut up. We humans are entitled to a little mystery. Like the making of sausage, we don’t need to know about everything that goes on inside us. When I savor a hot fudge sundae, for example, do I care
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An American Tragedy
Dec 31, 2013
“The book costs $129.” A clerk at the local bookstore looked at me with eyebrows lifted. He could probably tell by my shocked expression the price wasn’t what I’d expected. “What?”I resisted. “Are the pages made of gold leaf?” The young man laughed. “It’s a textb
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Vandalism Or Art, That Is the Question
Dec 30, 2013
Andy Warhol, the man who painted Campbell soup labels and framed them as art, once said, “Good business is the best art.” (“Damage Control, by Ben Lerner, Harper’s, Dec. 2013 p. 46) Certainly, when it came to art Warhol knew his business. When the performance artist, Dorothy P
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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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