Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Of Thee I Sing
Jul 03, 2013
Author Frith Powell writes in her book, Two Lipsticks and a Lover that French women are different from their American counterparts: Unlike her neurotic American sisters, a French bachelorette would never be caught dead mopping on the sofa, digging into a tub of Haagen-Das because so
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The Power And The Glory Of Graham Greene
Jul 02, 2013
I picked up an unread copy of a novel from the community library box last week: Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory. Some critics have called it his greatest work and he, too, once admitted he favored it. The book was written in 1938 after he fled to Mexico, escaping extradition
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Confessions Of An Empty Soul
Jul 01, 2013
I read The Alchemist, a novel by Paulo Coelho, a few years ago. A friend had recommended it and as it was an international best seller, it wasn’t hard to convince me to pick up a copy. I enjoyed the story about a sheep herder’s journey from Andalusia to exotic Egypt and the people
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We Are Not Alone
Jun 28, 2013
In the wake of 911, a debate is raging about the government’s right to store our phone messages and emails indefinitely. At the same time, there’s a deafening silence about similar intrusions from the private sector. Everyone knows that “cookies” follow us when we shop the int
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Crowdfunding — Let The Giver Beware
Jun 27, 2013
Not long ago, a playwright looking for capitol to produce his play invited Facebook friends to a site where they could safely contribute. Until that moment, I was unaware such sites existed. Apparently they do, places where someone can make a modest donation to a dream. The process is
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Another Day, Another Scam
Jun 26, 2013
Last week, I received the same message 3 times on my Yahoo email account. Someone had entered my correct password from a different computer, it warned. My first impulse was to open the message to discover the perpetrator, then I thought better of it. I emailed my web manager, instead.
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Reality — Stranger Than The Virtual World
Jun 25, 2013
The longer I live, the more I marvel at my assumption that when I sling my foot over the edge of my bed each morning the ground will be there. I also marvel that we puny homo sapiens pursue “truth” as if the universe could be filtered through the tiny slits of our eyes, the tiny h
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Words To Live By
Jun 24, 2013
I remarked in an earlier blog that I understood why Ezra Pound resorted to inserting foreign words into some of his poetry. Sometimes English doesn’t have the right expressions to convey an idea or feeling. Frankly, I’d like the freedom to make up my own words like Lewis Carroll d
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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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