Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Random Thoughts On My Upcoming 77th Birthday
Sep 02, 2013
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“Someone else’s success isn’t your failure,” a person wisely wrote on the Facebook recently. Good advice. Still, at almost 77, I admit to envy. That slant-eyed villain works hand-in-hand with my insecurity. What’s more, my life as a writer fosters self-doubt. Each manuscript
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Theatre Of The Absurd
Aug 30, 2013
One wonders how Theater of the Absurd writers, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter or Bertolt Brecht would have treated Sergey Aleynikov’s life story. Aleynikov is a brilliant computer code writer who was arrested, not once, but twice based on complaints filed by his former employer, Gold
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Planet For The Apes
Aug 29, 2013
In 1994, philosophers Peter Singer and Paoula Cavalieri published The Great Ape Project which proposed that chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans be given the same rights as human beings. These primates share 98.7% of human DNA, they argue, which makes them nearly human. Unfor
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Hey NSA — I’m Out Here!
Aug 28, 2013
Facebook, “…the single greatest possessor of customer data on the planet,” has recently lost one of its top executives to the National Security Agency (NSA). So writes Stanley Bing in Fortune magazine. (“Hey! Stop Watching Me!” by Stanley Bing, Fortune, July 2013, pg. 156) N
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Just A Piece Of Silk
Aug 27, 2013
In my mid fifties I decided to take up painting. My maternal great-grandfather had been a well-known artists in Central America, earning his living as a painter of frescos on the walls and ceilings of churches and other public buildings. My mother also painted, though living in povert
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The Life And Death Of Words
Aug 26, 2013
The Trung people of Yunnan province in southwest China say they once had a written language “but a dog chewed up the dried animal skin on which it was recorded.” (“How to read the dictionary of an endangered language,” by Ross Perlin, Harper’s August 2013 pg. 70.) Ross Per
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Dangerous Minds
Aug 23, 2013
A new word has appeared in the English language which can’t be found in any of my dictionaries: de-extinction. It means to bring an extinct species back to life. The notion took fire in people’s imagination after Michael Crichton wrote his novel, Jurassic Park. In it, scientist us
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Beyond A Book’s Cover
Aug 22, 2013
I was having coffee with a friend, recently, Peter Kasting, a fellow author who, sadly, has stopped writing. His last book, written several years ago, was a work of science fiction: Journey of a Thousand Miles. In it, cities had mysteriously become poisoned wastelands, forcing survivo
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Vengeance, Vigilantes And Justice
Aug 20, 2013
I finally did it. I cut the subscription cord for two ladies magazines and have replaced them with one for Mother Jones. The change, I thought, would stir up the little grey cells. When the July/August edition came, it didn’t disappoint. One article by Josh Harkinson featured the ha
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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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