Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Musing About The Lockdown
Apr 22, 2021
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The woman seated in the retirement center’s lounge was waiting for the box lunch she’d ordered. With nothing to entertain her, she studied the carpet beneath her feet as if to find a message in the pattern. For the last year, the pandemic has forced residents to live distant from
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Lesson About Bees
Apr 20, 2021
When he heard the cost of the computer repair, the old man at the opposite end of the telephone line wept. “I’m going to have a heart attack. I feel sick.” The scammer who was listening remained silent but others in the boiler room operation broke into laughter. They were unaw
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A Piece Of Work
Apr 15, 2021
Bear cubs in California are displaying an alarming affection for humans. Victims of brain encephalitis, their behavior seems cute, but it could cost them their lives. Some with the illness are lucky enough to be adopted by a wildlife refuge or zoo. The rest are euthanized because they
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Less Is More
Apr 13, 2021
For some years, my beauty moisturizer has been petroleum jelly. A woman on Facebook reacted in horror when she read my confession. Petroleum jelly clogged pores and had other negatives, she said. In reply, I sent her an article about the many dermatologists who approved of the produ
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Wabi-Sabi Rules
Apr 08, 2021
The Japanese have a notion in art called wabi-sabi. It espouses the theory that because nature is transient and therefore imperfect, artists should incorporate imperfection in their pieces. Sometimes that flaw may appear as a small asymmetry, a roughness in texture, or austerity i
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Anne Hilleman’s “Stargazer”
Apr 06, 2021
I mentioned on Facebook recently that I’d been privileged to interview best-selling author, Anne Hillerman. The daughter of Tony Hillerman, she picked up writing his popular Southwest Indian mysteries that featured detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. This April, Anne Hillerman
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Perchance To Dream 9
Apr 01, 2021
For a year, I’ve searched for an agent to represent for my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home. For the past two months, the manuscript has been under review with a London office. A few days ago, I emailed the agent to ask if the submission was still under review. As yet, I’ve r
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History Of Unmasked Neanderthals
Mar 30, 2021
Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States is a mild-mannered man who shares Mr. Rogers’ temperament more than most in politics. But he’s not withheld criticism of those who refuse to wear masks in public places during the pandemic. He accused these offenders of Neandertha
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Elon Musk And The Whales
Mar 25, 2021
A recent article in Business Insider pit the brains of humans against whales and the whales won. That was two hundred years ago when Sperm whales learned to avoid the fishermen’s harpoons by swimming against the wind that powered the schooners. History records that out of 80
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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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