Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Homage To A Callow Youth
Oct 02, 2013
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At Saturday brunch not long ago, I sat down over pancakes and eggs to enjoy the company of an old friend and his recently graduated 22 year-old son. The son was on his way to graduate school on a full scholarship at a large university and his father was basking in the glow of his off-
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A Brief Analysis Of Algae And Book Gods
Oct 01, 2013
One of my blog readers emailed an article from the New York Times to me, recently. His note said, “the parts I read sounded as though you might have written them.” I could see why. I’d covered the story of J. K. Rowling’s recent mystery novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling in a recen
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A Large Life Lived Narrowly
Sep 30, 2013
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love was recently interviewed for her upcoming novel, The Signature of All Things. The book, out in October, is a story about the life a 19th century woman, the overeducated daughter of a Philadelphia plant trader. Similar to my novel, Gothic Sp
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The Road to Prison Cupcakes
Sep 27, 2013
I know it’s hard to feel empathy for bankers and Wall Street brokers, but Roger Parloff makes as good a case as anyone can for why falling into criminal behavior is easier for these folks than for others. (“The Gray Art of not quite Insider Trading,” by Roger Parloff, Fortune, 9
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Life Without A Backbone
Sep 26, 2013
The term, the Last Mile, doesn’t refer to a death march. It refers to the point where a consumer purchases access to the internet through a service provider. AT & T and Comcast are two of the best known providers and they buy their air wave access from the federal government. Th
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We Don’t Want To Live In A Borg World
Sep 25, 2013
In an earlier blog (8/28/13), I poked fun about NSA spying. But, at heart, I don’t find the subject funny. As an older person, I feel obligated to remind the young, who may know little of life before “virtual reality,” that walking into the world wide web is fun and convenient,
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The Brain/Hand Connection
Sep 24, 2013
As prehistoric as it may seem, I’m considering the purchase of a fountain pen. When I was in grammar school, my stepmother used to lend me her special pen to do my homework. The nib was the size of a needle’s point, yet it allowed the ink to flow across the paper with a smooth mov
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Opting Out
Sep 23, 2013
In the closing chapters of her best seller, Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg makes the following observation about her generation’s attitude toward feminists. In our defense, my friends and I truly, if naively, believed that the world did not need feminists anymore. We mistakenly thought
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How To Study In A Flat World
Sep 20, 2013
Sometimes I feel like I’ve dropped to earth from another planet. The impression is strongest when I discover scientific conclusions that run counter to my personal experience. I felt that way, recently, after reading an article on how to study in Scientific American Mind. As Septemb
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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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