Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Survival Skills For School Bus Hijackers
May 27, 2021
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In my late twenties, the principal of the high school where I taught threatened me. “Promise not to join the strike and you’ll be rewarded. If not, I’ll punish you.” As a unionist and a person who had faced greater threats than one coming from an educator, I refused. Wha
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Actively Dying
May 25, 2021
(On the eve of the first anniversary of my mother’s death at 104, I reprise a blog I wrote days before she died. I hope it will comfort those with similar losses in the past or yet to come.) “I remind you, your parent isn’t actively dying.” The woman in charge of the assisted
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Because I Am Old
May 20, 2021
I’m not saying this because I’m old. I’m saying this because it’s true. What’s new isn’t always what’s best. When I’m feeling nauseous, I’d prefer a doctor’s home visit rather than sit clutching my sides in her office. She imagines care is more efficient when
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Is Sarah Palin Trump’s Birther?
May 18, 2021
Most societies link human childbirth to the spiritual. “It’s a miracle,” a new parent is likely to gasp upon seeing his or her offspring for the first time. That sense of the divine is not lost in patriarchal societies. To downplay the woman’s role, religious myths credit th
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The Internet–What’s Our Destination?
May 13, 2021
“Video and audio are the hottest media,” writes Clive Thompson, a reporter for the tech magazine Wired. ( “Every Word You Say,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, May 2021, pg.15,) I have to agree. My Write Away blog is approaching its 11th anniversary and enjoys a respectable numb
Continue Reading →Scents And Sensibility
May 11, 2021
Peter Susskind’s masterful novel Perfume is the story of a man, beastly in form, who concocts fragrances so intoxicating, they summon illusions. Ignore the fact that he murders beautiful young women to obtain his secret ingredients. Fantastic as it seems, the book’s association of
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Things I Never Knew
May 06, 2021
Browsing through my latest copy of Town And Country, I learned some facts that surprised me. Normally, I don’t expect to be enlightened by the magazine. Mostly, I hope to be amused. What I discovered wasn’t earth-shaking. I’d heard about power lunches before, but I didn’
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The Stendhal Syndrome
May 04, 2021
Moments exist in my life when I have stood transfixed by a work of art. A 1965 performance of Prokofiev’s ballet, Romeo and Julie in which Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margo Fontaine danced the title roles is one example. Rembrandt’s painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son is another.
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Bathtub Ecology
Apr 29, 2021
In my upcoming memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home, I describe a scene outside a Kenyan village where I was seated in a first-class train compartment opposite an Indian man. We were waiting for other passengers to board, time enough for me to take the measure of my traveling companion.
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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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