Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Bring Back Cuneiform Tablets
Oct 21, 2013
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Today’s blog is about banking in the United States, a topic that might hold little interest for readers who live outside the country, but we all know that when our financial system hiccups, there are reverberations around the globe. Today, our guide through the wonderland of high fi
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It Takes More Than A Village; It Takes A Country
Oct 18, 2013
Politicians love to tug at our hearts with their concern for children’s welfare and the country applauds. But the end result is much ado about nothing. 1 in 5 children in the United States lives below the poverty line. What’s more, when compared to other industrialized nations, we
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Shakespeare As A Luxury
Oct 17, 2013
I’ve been thinking a lot about higher education, of late. One fact is clear. The enormous debt students incur upon graduation makes getting a well-paid job a necessity and that necessity has called into question the value of liberal art studies. As Governor Rick Scott of Florida rec
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Is Free A Good Price?
Oct 16, 2013
At lunch, a friend volunteered that writing emails and texting seemed to have reduced her attention span. I knew what she meant. I, too, grow impatient with suspense novels that exceed the point of reasonable tension, or folks who tell a story but have trouble getting to the point. Bu
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Truth Is Relative
Oct 15, 2013
Truth is so relative it takes courage each morning to get out of bed. Will the ground stay beneath my feet? Seeing life as illusion is a habit of mine as anyone who’s read my novel, Trompe l’Oeil, knows. Yet nothing in my fiction compares with the bizarre circumstances of ordinary
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Real Human Beings In Abstract
Oct 14, 2013
A noble woman in the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky says, and I paraphrase: “I love humanity. What I can’t stand is the individual.” When I first read those lines, I remember how hard I laughed. Being young and with little experience, the character’s distin
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Close Encounters Of A Forgiving Kind
Oct 11, 2013
I admit it. Writers can’t be trusted. In their desire to share insights, they can forget someone’s feeling might be hurt. In an earlier blog on Truman Capote (Blog Dec. 12, 2012) I wrote about the author’s roman à clef, a fictionalized profile of some of his friends in New York
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Thank You Aaron Swartz
Oct 10, 2013
Aaron Swartz was a hacker. He committed suicide in January of this year at the age of 26. He killed himself because he feared he would be prosecuted and jailed for attempting to share medical information stored on the computers at the National Health Institute. The agency charges hand
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Enough With The Floor Tiles
Oct 09, 2013
The other day, the mail brought the latest edition of Portal, a glossy magazine published by my local art museum. Browsing through the pages, I came across two articles of interest. The first was a critic’s essay defending an exhibit that angered several patrons, material which, the
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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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