Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Medical Justification
Dec 09, 2013
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For two years, while in my 40’s, I kept a dream diary. Someone suggested the idea when I’d complained about a recurrent nightmare that haunted me. Having no alternative, I gave the idea a try and discovered the more I welcomed my dreams, the more vivid they became. Some of them fa
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Old Books Should Never Die
Dec 06, 2013
Old soldiers fade away. Dying elephants break from the herd and wander off by themselves. But what becomes of books past their prime? The question came to me this morning as I was donating a few paperbacks to my neighborhood library box. I’d just made my deposit when a voice growled
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Truth, Justice And The American Way
Dec 05, 2013
We Americans like to differentiate our playbook from the one Russia and China uses. Their foreign policy we view as self-serving, while ours is designed to serve as a beacon for human decency across the globe. But, according to the writers Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore, a whistle
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The Eternal Question
Dec 04, 2013
I read another of those endless, nagging magazine reports reminding me that age, food and fitness have a correlation. Eat well, exercise regularly and live longer. Yes, yes, I know. Even the fast food giant McDonald’s gets it, which is why they’re offering healthier menu options.
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Thinking About Life
Dec 03, 2013
A neighbor with a brochure came to my door yesterday. She’s new to the area and we’d said a few words this summer when she and her husband moved into the corner house on my block. When I opened my screen door, she smiled but said little, choosing to press her printed material into
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The Canary In The Coal Mine
Dec 02, 2013
I wrote a note to U. S. Senator Diane Feinstein a few days ago. Feinstein serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and I was disappointed to learn she had labeled Edward Snowden a traitor because he’d taken his information about government surveillance to the press rath
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NSA — Running Silent, Running Deep
Nov 29, 2013
Jack Goldsmith isn’t worried about the NSA . He teaches at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law so he’s pretty confident about where the United States is going when it comes to its security agency. He predicts the cur
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Wishing Everyone A Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 28, 2013
(Norman Rockwell painting courtesy of wikipedia.com)
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War And Peace
Nov 27, 2013
One episode of the original Star Trek television series was a story about a technically advanced society that was flourishing in the midst of war. People wandered leisurely through the streets, drank lattes at sidewalk cafes amidst gleaming skyscrapers and well manicured landscapes. 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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