Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Wouldn’t That Be A Hoot?
Nov 19, 2013
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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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Drilling With Tax Money
Nov 12, 2013
A friend who lives in South Africa sent me a clipping from her Cape Town newspaper. The article complained about the growing bureaucracy in that country and called for reform. That bureaucratic bloat was beginning to show its ugly head there came as no surprise to me. Bloat is a natur
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Death by Bolero
Nov 11, 2013
In an earlier blog (10/4/13), I wrote that I’d come home from the neighborhood library box with the work of Gabriel García Marquez, The General In His Labyrinth. The book is a fictional account of the last days of Simón Bolívar, the man who liberated Latin America from Spanish ru
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The Roads That Lead To Rome
Nov 08, 2013
If the Catholic Church has its way, the argument over women’s reproductive rights will be won not in the courts but through business acumen. How? By quietly taking over medical facilities, nursing homes, and insurance plans. According to Stephanie Mencimer, writing for Mother Jones,
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The Rise Of The Investor-State
Nov 07, 2013
A new word in the English language has recently been coined: investor-state. The term refers to corporations who have the power to sue nations before an jurisdictional tribunal for infringements on their commercial interest. Phillip Morris, for example, has sued Australia over that co
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Passing Inspection
Nov 06, 2013
My November Vanity Fair came in the mail today and I have to say vanity is the operative word. This edition reads like a gossip column. It’s lead article is, “The 2013 New Establishment: Who’s Up, Who’s Down and Who’s Roadkill,” — to which I’d have liked to add,
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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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