Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Meditation on Bizarro Editors
Jul 23, 2013
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It would be wonderful if editors of fly-by-night e-magazines developed some civility to compensate for their ineptitude. These presumed purveyors of literature might do well to meet the high standards they require of others. Below is one example of an editor’s clumsy instruction to
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When Words Fail
Jul 22, 2013
A metaphor, as everyone knows, is a comparison between a subject and an object. She was so tall I was reminded of a tree is one example. A simile draws the same comparison but uses the words like or as to make the connection obvious. She stood tall as a tree. Poetic devices like the
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Who’s Buying The Lecturn?
Jul 19, 2013
A few days ago, I had lunch with a fundraiser from an Arizona university. She was in town scouting for dollars to endow a Chair for the school of engineering. Though I wasn’t in a position to provide that level of cash, she stopped by for lunch and over our curries, we talked about
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Gallumphing And Other Strategies
Jul 18, 2013
“Anybody seen in a bus over the age of thirty has been a failure in life.” So concludes a former duchess of Westminster, Loelia Lindsay, who extolled walking. She is quoted in an article about the virtue of being on foot by Mark Kingwell. (“Talking The Walk,” Harper’s June 2
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Words to Pause Over
Jul 17, 2013
A reader of my books, Gothic Spring and Trompe l’Oeil, wrote recently that she had to keep a dictionary nearby as she read the novels. I sympathize. I do the same whenever I read works by Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch. I’m grateful my vocabulary gets me through mos
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The Wasteland Of Poetry
Jul 16, 2013
A year ago, my blog contained a complaint about a poem in Harper’s that struck me as too inscrutable to mean anything to anyone except its author who, incidentally, won a Nobel prize for his art. Recently, a reader replied to that blog, offering his understanding of the piece. The i
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Blood And Oil
Jul 15, 2013
A friend writes on Facebook tirelessly about scandals wrought by the government and big business. He gets so exorcised that I wondered if all this bad news might be raising his blood pressure. He assured me his complaints helped him blow off steam. I hope he’s right. The strategy wo
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Of Writers and Bees
Jul 12, 2013
Several days had passed since I’d last opened the pages of Walter Kerr’s, The Decline of Pleasure — a free copy I’d picked up at my neighborhood library box. I’d been slow in my progress because the book, written 1962, contained many observations that seemed dated. I’m
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The Emptiness Of “if only”
Jul 11, 2013
In his essay supporting the rise of women in the business ranks, Warren Buffet, head of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest men in the world, offers two explanations for why it’s been difficult for women to rise to positions of leadership. The first is a male reluctance to dou
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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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