Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Penalty of Knowing Too Much
May 02, 2013
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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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Rape Versus Legitimate Rape
Apr 25, 2013
A teenage girl killed herself, recently, after being gang raped at a party and her pictures broadcast across the internet. (“Rape Culture Claims Another Victim, by Andrea Peterson, ThinkProgress, 4/9/13 ) The Canadian authorities were unable to pursue the case because the girl, asha
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Life on the Rubber Chicken Circuit
Apr 24, 2013
Today’s blog is personal, anecdotal and a classic example of why a writer needs a sense of humor. Yesterday I was a guest speaker at a local service club. My topic was, “Changes in the Publishing Industry.” About 25 people attended. The free lunch was a plate of “rubber” c
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360 Degrees of Integration
Apr 23, 2013
In the children’s story, Chicken Little, Henny-Penny runs around saying the sky was falling. There’s a similar cry in “Unrivaled,” an essay by Stanley Bing. In it, he lists comments by pundits, past and present, who predicted that the sky was falling for American dominance on
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Stating A Preference
Apr 22, 2013
I received a review on Trompe l’Oeil recently from a blogger who has a good following. Mainly, she liked the book, giving it a score of 4 out of 5, which is nothing to sneeze at. But she was not as happy with this novel as she was with Gothic Spring, the first of my works she review
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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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