Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Nature Seems to Love a Cheater
May 08, 2013
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When I was ten, I broke a glass coffee table in the small apartment where my mother and I lived. Horrified, I covered the crack with a book, foolishly hoping it would never be moved and my carelessness would never be revealed. Unfortunately, my mother discovered the damage as soon as
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Sweet Birds of Youth
May 07, 2013
“Most American high schools are almost sadistically unhealthy places to send adolescents,” writes Jennifer Senior for New York magazine (http://nymag.com/news/features/high-school-2013-1/ze. Jan 20, 2013.) One reason, according to sociologist Robert Fari, who is quoted in the arti
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An Old Adage Proves True
May 06, 2013
I met with a group of friends for brunch recently. Several of them are in their sixties and worried about their weight. One friend announced he’d given up sugar to lose pounds, so I directed him to a good book called The Yeast Connection by William G. Crook. Crook talks about sugar
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Permission To Be Miserable Granted
May 03, 2013
A number of people on my Facebook page say they suffer from depressions from time to time. The condition leaves them debilitated but they usually apologize for having shared their pain. When I read these Mea culpas I wish I were close enough to give them a hug. Today, however, I can d
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The Penalty of Knowing Too Much
May 02, 2013
Last week, I took a friend to lunch to celebrate her 73rd year. She’s as fit as anyone half her age and has kept her figure so that she wears clothes well and always looks stylish. Her one concern about getting older is Alzheimer’s, a disease that afflicted her father. She doesn
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Willa Cather and the Rooster’s Dilemma
May 01, 2013
When I was younger, I avoided reading books by Willa Cather. Like the average teenager, I looked askance at stories of middle age or frontier drudgery. What had any of it to do with modern life? Even while she was alive, her stories weren’t considered in the vanguard of her century.
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A Lesson About Food Stamps
Apr 30, 2013
I have a friend who’s savvy on many subjects and I’m grateful to know him. But we don’t always see eye to eye. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth and is to be admired for what he’s accomplished. But I’m also sure what he calls being raised po
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The New Hemisphere of the Blogosphere
Apr 29, 2013
I thought writing a blog was straight forward. I’ve been around the blogosphere for over three years writing 5 days a week (M-F), bouncing ideas off the thoughts of other writers. I presumed I knew my way around the territory pretty well. But Andrew Sullivan has given me a twist tha
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Taking Aim at Gun Violence
Apr 26, 2013
Perhaps, in our public debate about guns, we should talk less about “control” and more about “management.” If we thought about gun violence as a health issue, the way we do about cigarettes and alcohol, we might find we can agree upon a treatment. Certainly caring for victims
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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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