Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Wealthy Aren’t Like Us
Oct 09, 2012
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Lucille, a character from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, that classic exploration of power and money, shrugs when her expensive dress is torn at a party. “I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.” (3.23-25). Not caring seems to be the hallmark of som
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The Happiness Paradox
Oct 08, 2012
A number of things make me happy though not all of them are good for me. Unlimited access to hot fudge sundaes would be one of these. So would lying on a sunny beach for hours, giving no thought to skin cancer. The one drawback of these delights is that they pertain only to me. But th
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Ruminations on Turning 76
Oct 05, 2012
Old age comes to everyone, even the young, though the joke is the young don’t know it. They take youth for granted, which is why they have the luxury to complain they are “bored.” In a way, one of the gifts of age is seeing the end and having the good sense to relish the time th
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Germaine Greer Shocks Again
Oct 04, 2012
Germaine Greer managed to put her foot in her mouth at the 1012 Brisbane Writers Festival in Australia. if I know anything about Greer – an outspoken leader of the Woman’s Rights Movement in England and author the famous, The Female Eunuch — she meant to do it. In a way, it
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True Lies
Oct 03, 2012
One normally doesn’t tout the quarterly edition of an alumni magazine as scintillating reading, but I’m often surprised by what I discover in mine. Nestled among the names of those who are working on PhDs, or writing books or having babies, or doing nothing because they have died,
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Gluttony at the Dollar Store
Oct 02, 2012
I’ve been saving money from my sale of used books to buy a secondhand copy of Haruki Murakami’s latest tome, 1Q84. Originally the novel sold for over $30. I’ve saved $12 and hope I can find his masterpiece at a bargain price now that a year has passed since its publication. I ad
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A New Voice, A New Song
Oct 01, 2012
Hanna Rosin’s new book, The End of Men—and the Rise of Women predicts that within a generation women will rule the nation if not the world. (“Why Testosterone is the New Estrogen” excerpted in More, 9/12, pgs.126-7.) She has some impressive statistics to support her view. More
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Finding Elizabeth Kostova Again
Sep 28, 2012
As the saying goes, “Good things come to those who wait.” I’m not partial to waiting, to be honest. I hate standing in lines or at a stop light when I’m in the car. But this week, I was rewarded by waiting — though I admit, the waiting wasn’t by intention. Several year
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“Innocence of Muslims” Raises the Question of American Values
Sep 27, 2012
Innocence of Muslims, the film by the Egyptian born American citizen Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, exposes again that delicate balance in this country between free speech and how far a government should go to protect that right. We’ve confronted the question before, for example, when the
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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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