Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Getting My Head Out of the Clouds
Jul 23, 2012
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It almost reads like science fiction but there’s a new book out by Andrew Blum called Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. After a mishap with his computer, this Wired reporter started investigating the web world. What he discovered is that new technology depends heavily
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The Sweet Despair of Success
Jul 20, 2012
I’ve just finished Part II of Larry McMurtry’s autobiography, Literary Life, and found it contained many surprises. One would think the author of Lonesome Dove and 29 other novels, a man who has won the Pulitzer Prize and written dozens of screenplays, including Broke Back Mountai
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Luck Happens: Be Prepared and Be Humble
Jul 19, 2012
On June 9 of this year, the writer Michael Lewis gave the commencement speech at Princeton, his alma mater. In it he made an observation about luck that went viral on the web. Life’s outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. The truth of his st
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Which Came First…
Jul 18, 2012
I wrote a blog a few weeks ago questioning that religion was the sole basis for morality. (6/12/12) In my view, societies developed moral codes to provide cohesion and safety for its members. I was speculating, of course, as I have no degree in sociology or anthropology. So imagine my
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Our Thoughts lie Deeper than We know
Jul 17, 2012
I AM A SICK MAN…. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. So begins Fyodor Dostoevsky’s narrator in, Notes from the Underground. Certainly, the author has developed one of the most unpleasant characters in literature — not the most
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Art as Perspective
Jul 16, 2012
I ran across a quote the other day that brought me up short. An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence. (Robin Gibb, quoted in Billboard.com, reprinted in The Week, 6/8/12 pg 19.) I’ve long heard that a great artist has to suffer,
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At the Heart of Lonesome Dove
Jul 13, 2012
Larry McMurtry and I shall never meet, yet I’m certain we’re kindred spirits. I picked up the second of his three-book memoir at the Dollar Store the other day. I’d never read any of his work, though I knew he’d won the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove and that he wrote the sc
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A Hoax Proves to be True
Jul 12, 2012
In 1957 Vance Packard wrote a best seller called The Hidden Persuaders. It recounted claims by market researcher James M. Vicary who insisted that consumer choices could be influenced through subliminal messaging. Words or images flashed on a theater screen, he said, would result in h
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What’s In A Dream?
Jul 11, 2012
I decided to shake up my world a little by letting one of my women’s magazine subscriptions lapse. I wanted to subscribe to something different. Instead of More I signed up for Scientific American Mind. I haven’t regretted my decision. The information the May/June edition was inte
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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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