Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A New Understanding of Urban Blight
Mar 06, 2013
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Yesterday was one of those days I could have erased from the calendar and been happy. Everything and anything mechanical, from my computer, to my telephone, even my toaster, went wrong. What’s more, I lost a tooth filling and kept getting calls that were wrong numbers. Just an ordin
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Thoughts on the Tenth Anniversary of the Iraq War
Mar 05, 2013
Recently, I remembered that we’d passed the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war. I was reminded by an open letter that appeared in Harper’s magazine, written by Andrew J. Bacevich to, Paul Wolfowitz, one of the war’s chief architects. (“A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz” by Andrew J.
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Surviving the Rocky Times
Mar 04, 2013
I presume many people have a bucket list of accomplishments they’d like to achieve before parting from this life. I have 4 items on mine, all related to writing and I work toward attaining them every day. If I do succeed with any one of them, I hope I have the wit to find other goal
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The World Where Russians Rule
Mar 01, 2013
I picked up another book bargain at the Dollar Store a while ago, this time a novel by Tom Rob Smith who made the New York Times Best Seller List for an earlier work, Child 44. Smith graduated from Cambridge University in 2001 and, apparently, has enjoyed a brilliant success at an ear
Continue Reading →Memoirs and Memories
Feb 28, 2013
Laser printing has lowered the cost of book publishing for everyone. In the case of fiction, that may be a bad thing because the market is flooded with some pretty awful writing, even from the main stream press. But in the case of memoirs, I make an exception. Almost everyone has a st
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I Earned the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval When I Decided I Didn’t Need It.
Feb 27, 2013
I’m going to let the subscription of another women’s magazine expire when it comes due. The repetitious information I can live without — just as I can live without those little subscription cards that keep falling from the pages or the constant renewal reminders stuffed into
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Betting on Marshmallows
Feb 26, 2013
The more science learns about human beings, the more puzzling we seem to be. For years, the assumption has been that the ability to postpone gratification was a better predictor of future success than IQ. (“Headlines,” by Simon Makin, Scientific Mind, March/April 2012, pg. 8) The
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How Can a Particle be a Wave?
Feb 25, 2013
A friend recommended a new science book to me, The Particle at the End of the Universe, by Sean Carroll. I’m 50 pages in to it, but I’m so excited about what I’ve learned so far that I have to share. Unlike Jim Holt, author of Why Does the World Exist?, which I’ve touched upon
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Rozencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead, But Not Tom Stoppard
Feb 22, 2013
I’m struggling to complete my 4th novel. I thought I’d finished it, but something doesn’t feel right. Unlike my third novel, Trompe l’Oeil, where each character is driven by a desire to obtain something from life which life refuses to give, the latest work is even more charact
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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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