Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Oatmeal, Genius and Conspiracy Theories
Oct 08, 2013
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I sat down to eat my oatmeal this morning when I was interrupted by a call from a friend who lives in South Africa. Before heading home from her job, she stopped to wish me a belated happy birthday. I’m always glad to hear from her and for a time we caught up, chatting about mutual
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Alone, Alone, All, All Alone
Oct 07, 2013
When I was 29, I was dating a man who was intelligent, financially secure and cultured. Nonetheless, I wasn’t attracted to him, despite my mother’s encouragement. “He has beautiful teeth,” she said, fearing I was being picky and would end up alone. At 29, I considered that pos
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Life Lived As An Unbroken Moan
Oct 04, 2013
I dropped off a couple of books at my neighborhood community library box the other day — New Age material which my cerebral cortex had outgrown. As I stood peeking through the glass door, I noticed a novel by Gabriel García Márquez: The General in His Labyrinth. Márquez is fa
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Desperate Writers
Oct 03, 2013
I turned on my computer this morning and found another pitch to market my books. This time it was for an “Author Marketing Kit.” I was being offered a $1,000 package for $125 if I signed up right away. The company’s mission, they said, was to help ”authors and small publishers
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Homage To A Callow Youth
Oct 02, 2013
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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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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