Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Nov 26, 2013
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I picked up a copy of Beloved by Toni Morrison from my neighborhood library box the other day. The words on the cover were, “A Masterpiece…Magnificent.. Astounding.. Overpowering.” In the upper right hand corner was a seal, “Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.” Having r
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The Words Aren’t Lovely, But Dark And Deep
Nov 25, 2013
I don’t care for Joyce Carol Oates’ writing. Her style I shall call “lumpacious” — an excess of words and arthritic phrasings put to the service of despair and gloom without a ray of humor. Nonetheless, I struggle to keep an open mind; so when I came upon her short ficti
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Strange Bedfellows
Nov 22, 2013
“Unless you’re a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.” (The Dastardly Defender of Letters,” by Laura Bennett, New Republic, October 21, 2013, pg. 29) I read the above statement twice, thinking I’d misunderstood Andrew Wylie, a top literary age
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The Masculine Way
Nov 21, 2013
I love men. I’ve never been married, but I do love men. I love the way they compartmentalize their thoughts so that when faced with a problem they don’t want to handle, they don’t. They think about football instead. This ability to put off a crisis until tomorrow makes them seem
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Beating One Of The 7 Deadly Sins
Nov 20, 2013
I want to change my insurance carrier. The papers have been sitting on my desk for nearly a month. I move them to the upper right hand corner, then to the left, then look for a drawer to hide them for a while. I really, really do want to take action but the task is too tedious. I have
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Wouldn’t That Be A Hoot?
Nov 19, 2013
I have a fan. Just one. But the enthusiasm of that one could compete with a gaggle of groupies. My fan reads my books, my blogs and even took the trouble to read my Christmas story, “Under the Bridge and Beneath the Moon,” published in Children’s Digest in 1988. Fans are like fa
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Fiction As A Compass
Nov 18, 2013
I have a few friends, men mostly, who refuse to read fiction and that includes reading mine. Their excuse is they have so little time that when they do crack a book, the material must be significant. By inference, fiction has no significance – the fluffy pastime of women who sigh ov
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Healing With Pen And Paper
Nov 15, 2013
I’ve often remarked that a writer writes because he or she must. Given that the craft involves frustration and even anguish, what am I saying about writers? That we’re masochists? No. I’m saying that when words are marshaled across a page in proper order and with a degree of ele
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Sticking To Old Fashioned Ways
Nov 14, 2013
In my blog of 10/2/13, I proposed that we ban paper and go back to clay tablets. The suggestion was tongue in cheek, of course, a way of saying it would be nice to slow down the amount of information we generate, record and store. No one has taken up my suggestion and, happily, a book
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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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