Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Fig Leaf Of Civility
Feb 01, 2022
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Many fairytales are quest stories in which the hero must accomplish a task before he wins the princess’s hand. The Twelve Dancing Princesses is my favorite. Joe Manchin sent his Democratic colleagues on a quest to gain bi-partisan support for two voting rights bills he support
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On The Religion Of Unicorns
Jan 27, 2022
The article by Jaques Berlinerblau asked the question, ”Is there such a thing as a non-secular atheist?” I blinked. Do atheists come in flavors now? He went on to explain non-secular atheists are those who “embraced science as an alternative to faith” I blinked again. How ca
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Thoughts On The Admiring Bog
Jan 25, 2022
Lily Tomlin once said, “I always wanted to be someone, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” I know the feeling. Nearly ten years have passed since writer Susan Stoner and I began the book talk show, Just Read It. I had dreams of becoming the next Bill Moyers. How
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Paradise Lost?
Jan 20, 2022
“The rubicon (sic) has been crossed. The fire of revolution has been lit.” So wrote a representative of the white supremacist group the Proud Boys on Telegram, after the January 6, 2021 insurrection. (“Capitol Insurrection,…” by Cassie Miller and Hannah Gais, Southern Po
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The Problem With Jon Stewart
Jan 18, 2022
Former late-night talk show host, Jon Stewart stuck his foot in a puddle the other day and tried to retrieve it without getting his trousers wet. He said he was riffing with friends on his podcast, The Problem with Jon Stewart when he joked that the goblins at Gringotts’s Bank in th
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Goodwill Hunting
Jan 13, 2022
The woman on Facebook swelled with outrage when I responded to her attack on the Kyle Rittenhus jury after they’d acquitted the young man of murder. My thought was different from hers. I said we needed to trust our institutions even though we sometimes suffer disappointments. A ju
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Damn You, Hamlet!
Jan 11, 2022
As I trawl the internet in search of information for this blog, I recently came across Thomas Friedman’s question in his New York Times column. (11-10-21). If people won’t wear masks during a pandemic, how will they endure the discomforts attendant with fighting climate c
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Secrets Of The Mind
Jan 06, 2022
At the end of each year, my stockbroker calls to talk about my portfolio and give me an assessment of the taxes I will owe. I appreciate his concern, but I’m also aware he’s giving me a mental health check-up: am I lucid enough to make financial decisions? At 85, I sometimes fee
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Cancer in Higher Education
Jan 04, 2022
When my mother moved into assisted living, I became the landlord for her half of the duplex. My first tenant was an art historian with a Ph.D. He’d moved to Oregon after working several years as an adjunct instructor at a midwestern university. Perhaps he hoped to find tenured wor
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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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