Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A New Paradigm
Sep 19, 2013
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I dropped by the community library box in my neighborhood the other day and among the offerings, I found the 1997 best seller, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. I’d always meant to read the novel, so I scooped it up and brought it home. The story is about Dinah, a woman in Biblical
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Sep 18, 2013
Just want readers to know, I goofed in my dating, September 18. So, no blog today. Look for me again tomorrow. First time in almost four years. Sorry
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Conspiracy Theories And Cabals, Oh My!
Sep 17, 2013
When I was in public life, I became friendly with a journalist from my city’s daily newspaper. She was an excellent writer and while I didn’t always agree with her, I respected her research and her insights. When we were seated together one afternoon for an interview, I let slip t
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In Gut We Trust
Sep 16, 2013
Marcel Proust once wrote, “We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.” (3Quarks Daily, 5/30/2013) How right he was. Of the number of cells in our anatomy only 10% are human. The rest are microbes. (“Happy Microbes, Skinny Jeans,” by Moises Ve
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Is Higher Education Worth The Price?
Sep 16, 2013
Almost everyone’s complaining about the high cost of college tuition, but little is being done about it. Worse, writer Jeff Madrick takes a hard look at the value of a college degree given that institutions of higher learning are being forced to “operate much more like ordinary co
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The Whimper of Cynics
Sep 13, 2013
I have a Facebook acquaintance who attempts to pass for a curmudgeon but I have unmasked him. He’s an optimist. He’s like a man standing on the roof of a tall building, threatening suicide, secretly hoping to be rescued. True pessimists sit behind locked doors and quit eating. O
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Nailing The Hyppocrites
Sep 12, 2013
I sat down to tea with a woman who’d retired recently. She was the daughter of a dear friend, now deceased, and so we walked down memory lane together, recollecting her mother’s life as a homemaker. As the 93rd anniversary of the Women’s Rights Amendment (August 18, 1920) had ju
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Dealing With Demons
Sep 11, 2013
A while ago, I wrote about a former neighbor who suffered with paranoid schizophrenia. On her good days we had wonderful conversations. She was a gifted poet and had earned a M.A. in Fine Arts from a prestigious university. On her bad days, she knew my door was open if she wanted my h
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Good News
Sep 10, 2013
In 1947, before I was a teenager, I saw a movie, Good News, staring June Allyson and Peter Lawford. The story was the traditional one about a college football hero who meets a librarian and decides to sweep her off her size 3 shoes. Allyson is reluctant, at first, and rebuffs Lawford
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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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