Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Wishing You A Joyous Holiday
Dec 25, 2013
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‘Tis The Season
Dec 23, 2013
No doubt people will find a number of electronic gifts under their trees this year so, after the turkey and the pumpkin pie, much of the afternoon will be spent perusing the accompanying manuals. True, reading manuals is a small price to pay for gadgets intended to make our lives simp
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Life Lived As A Time Lord
Dec 20, 2013
“I don’t know whether I’m coming or going,” people sometimes say when they’re being pulled in several different directions. I feel the same way about my presence on the internet. So many bits and bytes of me are floating in the Cloud, I’m not sure how to maintain my identi
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Standing In The Wings
Dec 19, 2013
2013 has been a banner year for many of my artistic Facebook friends. Betty Dravis is writing a script for the film, 6 Packs of Blood. Katie Kelly has snagged a big agent for her upcoming book; Madeline Roosevelt has received an award for her work as a make-up artist. Yoly Fivas has c
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Wuss Power
Dec 18, 2013
I have always disliked sports. I don’t like playing sports and I loathe watching it in any form. I do like Title IX, however, which gives American female athletics greater recognition than in the past. My dad tried to teach me to love baseball the moment I was out of diapers. I li
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Leading From Behind
Dec 17, 2013
A month ago, I was a panelist at a gathering of professional women, and there I mentioned I didn’t think leadership always meant being at the front of the line. Sometimes, leadership meant standing back and enabling others to achieve their goals — the position a mother mig
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Religion Without God
Dec 16, 2013
Recently an article appeared on web news about the growth of “atheist-mega” churches in England and the United States. Apparently, people of like minds are seeking to meet with brethren who are attracted to religious music and pageantry but lack a belief in a divine being. http://
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The Gift That Corrupts
Dec 13, 2013
We tend to think of cults as religious groups that are out of the mainstream but according to Nathaniel Rich, who de-programs cult victims, that image is far from true. (“The Man Who Saves You From Yourself,” by Nathaniel Rich, Harper’s, November 2013, pgs. 35-44) In his essay,
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Pigs Can’t Fly, But They Can Slide Down A Slippery Slope
Dec 12, 2013
“Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.” The adage is a warning to the greedy, but when I look back on the financial debacle of 2008, I have to say somehow the adage got it wrong. Hogs of the financial system survived while the rest of the litter got killed, meaning you, me and all 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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