Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
People Who Live in Glass Houses
Jan 04, 2013
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Robert Andrew Powell’s article, “In the Writer’s Room,” (Harpers, 11/12 pg. 7-75) reflects upon his experiences at the Seattle Central Library, one which causes him to wonder if public facilities like these, however grandly designed, aren’t destined to deteriorate into palac
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There’s a Gnome in My Garden
Jan 03, 2013
Trompe l’Oeil, my third novel, deals with the world of illusion and raises questions about what’s real, what’s illusion and how to tell the difference. When science poses similar puzzles, the answers aren’t simple either, as Oliver Sacks reveals in his new book, Hallucinations
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The Year 2084
Jan 02, 2013
Entering the new year brings with it the beginning of a new age. The one we’re spiraling toward is the age of robots. More and more they are taking on roles in war and peace that save human lives. A report published in the 2009 edition of the journal Gerontechnology found that socia
Continue Reading →Wolfe at the Door
Dec 31, 2012
If a cat can look at a king, then surely an unknown writer, such as myself, who is published by a press so small one needs a microscope to find it, may occasionally sneer at what passes for authors who write great novels. I refer specifically to Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Ro
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From the Sock Drawer to Immortality
Dec 28, 2012
The Brautigan Library in Vancouver, Washington is the home of failed manuscripts. Here rejection doesn’t exist and, it would follow, it is the place where a writer needs no talent to be part of the literary community. Such an institution is necessary, according to its current cura
Continue Reading →Sage Advice of the Caterpillar
Dec 26, 2012
As the end of the year rolls to a close, it’s time to think about New Year’s resolutions. Mine will be to take the advice of the Caterpillar from The Adventures of Alice In Wonderland. In my blogs I will endeavor to I say what I mean and to mean what I say. Too often in our haste,
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Language — The Ornament of Thought
Dec 24, 2012
On the day before Christmas, I’m thinking about the one gift that keeps giving: language. What fascinates me is the way we borrow words from other cultures to embellish our own. My latest novel, Trompe l’Oeil has a French title. Its meaning is less well known than words like rouge
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A Word About McCall Smith’s African Cozies
Dec 21, 2012
Sometimes luck happens. I found a used edition of Alexander McCall Smith 11th novel, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, which I’ve been wanting to read. It’s part of his series about a lady detective who resides in Botswana and opens the first agency in her small country. As I l
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Words to Confound
Dec 20, 2012
In the December issue of More Magazine, Jan Sheehan observes that in some ways we get better as we grow older. One consolation she offers is that while we may have more trouble retrieving words, we know more of them. (“8 Ways Your Body Gets Better with Age,” by Jan Sheehan , More,
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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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