Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Charlie Brown Moment
Mar 19, 2013
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We have a bookstore in my town which, despite the growth of Amazon, has survived. One reason is customer loyalty. Where I live, the natives like to think local. I am not a fan of the store, though I do buy books there. I was proud of them once, when Salman Rushdie was targeted for dea
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A Remembrance of Something Lost
Mar 18, 2013
Aryn Kyle, author of the best seller, The God of Animals, recently revealed her long affair with a married man, one of her former college professors. In her effort to make the relationship work, she admits she spent the $500,000 she earned for her first book in an attempt to buy her w
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A Question About Questions
Mar 15, 2013
I’m not the first to wonder if our quest for knowledge is getting us anywhere. For centuries, as a specie, we’ve scrambled around the universe trying to get to know it and, as a consequence, discover ourselves. The result of our accumulated knowledge has been to raise more questio
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Let Them Eat…
Mar 14, 2013
With all the animosity toward the United State in various parts of the world, I wonder if we might be sending the wrong ambassadors. If I were responsible for dealing with our critics, I’d start by reading the February issue of Fortune magazine. It teaches us better ways to conquer
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The Myth of Equal Opportunity
Mar 13, 2013
Having spent the earlier part of my life as a teacher, I admit that I and, I suspect, teachers like me, are leery of each new theory intended to save public education. What makes good schools? The answer is simple. Good teachers. The other piece of the puzzle is good parenting. Studen
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New Sales Strategies for an Old or New Book
Mar 12, 2013
An acquaintance of mine recently published her first book. She’s going through the marketing phase, promoting her novel in bookstores and doing a talk show when she can. As one who has used these methods, I doubt she will generate enough sales to make Amazon take notice and certainl
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Allan Sloan’s 3 Commandments For Investors
Mar 11, 2013
Allan Sloan, as I’ve mentioned, is one of my favorite financial columnists. He’s funny, he’s clear and he majors in common sense. His latest column in Fortune reminds investors of the three rules they should follow to avoid losing great sums of money in the stock market. They ar
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Women’s Liberation: Revolution or Evolution?
Mar 08, 2013
Recently, my public television station did a documentary on The Women’s Liberation Movement and having been one of those gals, it was a treat to relive history. Some of the clips left me wanting to stand up and shout, “Right on!” Nice to know the old juices can still flow. Nonet
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I Love You, I Love You Not
Mar 07, 2013
Richard Cohen in The Washington Post offered a short rant on the cheapening of the word love in our culture. We have become a nation of phonies. We love everyone. We don’t merely like them or respect them or hold them in some esteem. We love them.” (“Viewpoint,” by Richard Coh
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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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