Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Luck Happens
Feb 11, 2013
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Browsing though the March edition of Vanity Fair, I came across an interview with Stanley Donen, a man in his late 80s who began a brilliant film career young in his life and by the time he was 25, he was directing film luminaries like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. Aske
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Paul Volker — A man ahead of his time
Feb 08, 2013
A recent article by Lauren LaCompra, writing for Reuters, noted that some of Wall Street and banking’s most talented players are leaving the world of finance and fleeing to Silicon Valley or hedge and private equity funds. The reason given is not solely because of the scandals and b
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Firgures Lie and Liars Figure
Feb 07, 2013
“Figures lie and liars figure.” That was a favorite aphorism of the man who preceded me as a county commissioner. He used the saying to mock any statistic that displeased him and used it so often that eventually he discredited himself. Still, I agree that statistics are as pliable
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Feb 06, 2013
I was recently interviewed at a local radio station for my new book, Trompe l’Oeil. Our conversation went well past the plot and into larger, philosophical questions. One of the questions was about my age. At 76 did death play a large part in my thoughts, the interviewer wondered. T
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Quality Over Quantity
Feb 05, 2013
An acquaintance of mine recently congratulated me on my new book, Trompe l’Oeil, my third in five years and sighed that she wished her current biography, which she’s been working on for five years, didn’t require so much research. Her implication was that a fiction writer can kn
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If Stones Could Talk What Would They Say?
Feb 04, 2013
When I was young, I took an interest in people whose lives led them along roads less traveled and yet who were influential. Rasputin was one. He lived in the 19th century as a religious pilgrim and was embraced as a healer by Alexandra, the last Czarina of Russia. Count Calistoga was
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The Folly of Artistic Intention
Feb 01, 2013
In my critical reading the other day, I came across a name I failed to recognize: Roland Barthes. Looking him up, I l discovered he was scholar of language and art who argued in Death of the Author that the moment a work is finished, it should be viewed as an object severed from its c
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A Brief Word on Elephant Art
Jan 31, 2013
“What is a work of art?” seems as profound a question as, “Why are we here?” After centuries of debate, we modern humans are no closer to defining art than was the caveman. The subject just keeps getting more complicated. Recently, a painting created by an elephant sold at auc
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The Oysterville Daybook
Jan 30, 2013
I’ve been following a woman’s blog for a while because it’s well written and gives a glimpse into the rhythms of life in a small community. Sydney Stevens lives in Oysterville, Oregon — a place famous for its oyster beds — and is the author of several histories which
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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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