Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
When Culture Seems Alien
Jul 14, 2022
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The older I get, the more I fall behind the modern culture. For example, while taping a Just Read It segment on Colm Toibin’s fictionalized biography of Thomas Mann, I was stunned to learn that one of my young guests knew little about one of the twentieth century’s greatest
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Jujitsu Of The Me Exception
Jul 12, 2022
Recently, I learned a bumble bee is a fish. California, wanting to extend environmental protection to pollinators, tucked them under laws pertaining to scaly creatures. What did the two have in common? According to officials, both were invertebrates. Ingenious! As a writer and forme
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The Gravediggers Of Bucha
Jul 07, 2022
Three men meet daily to bury the dead in Bucha, Ukraine. No one pays them. They perform their task in the name of humanity. They’ve been at their work for many months, even during a period of Russian occupation. Glad to be free of the gruesome task, the invaders tolerated the menâ
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Women In Burkinis On the Beach
Jun 28, 2022
Browsing the internet, I discovered a story concerning identical twins. They were separated when one of them was lost in a market and never returned to her South Korean family. Instead, an American couple adopted her and brought her to the United States. Years later, when she was
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Here’s A Question For You
Jun 23, 2022
The woman sitting in the coffee shop opposite me had once been my English student. She’s in her seventies now and I am halfway through my eighties. From time to time, she assists me with some of my writing projects. Recently, she did a final edit of my memoir which I began in 20
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The Outer Limits Of Democracy
Jun 21, 2022
The man had fallen near an electrified rail of a Chicago subway. Unconscious, he lay convulsing on the bare track. People on the platform above looked down, stunned. A few whipped out their cell phones to record the incident. One African American, Anthony Perry, age twenty, made a
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The Road Less Traveled
Jun 16, 2022
Recently, I sat down for coffee with a woman young enough to be my granddaughter. I don’t have many acquaintances who are twenty-something, so, I was flattered to be asked to engage in conversation. Besides, I have a good deal of respect for this individual who is accomplished bey
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While Ukraine Burns…
Jun 14, 2022
To read the news is to wonder if the world has gone mad. Autocracy is on the rise, while democracies seem to be stumbling. To be honest, some democracies no longer look like democracies. India and Turkey come to mind. Russia holds elections, but no one would describe Vladimir Putin
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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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