Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Waiting Game
Feb 25, 2021
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In my late 20’s, after returning to the west coast from Africa, I sought a temporary job before entering graduate school. The employment office sent me to apply for clerical work with a large advertising firm in Los Angeles. I was excited. Advertising had always interested me. For
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The Truth About Femurs
Feb 23, 2021
Recently, a friend sent me a quote ascribed to the American anthropologist, Margaret Mead. It was her answer to a question that asked what constituted the first signs of civilization in a culture. She said it would be a broken thighbone that had healed properly. In the wild, the dis
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Knitting Society Together
Feb 18, 2021
“My bathrooms are for customers only.” The white proprietress of a knitting shop stood with her arms folded as she blocked an African-American woman from entering. The intended customer felt humiliated but didn’t explain she’d been through a rough patch and wanted to take up
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It’s Snowing In Gilead
Feb 16, 2021
During the second impeachment hearing for Donald Trump, a woman with a sense of irony shared this line from George Orwell’s novel, 1984 on her Facebook page. The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. The quote garn
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The ForgottenWorker
Feb 11, 2021
In Costa Rica, or Panama or Honduras, wherever they’d migrated, when the piggy bank was empty, my maternal grandmother worked shifts in a local brothel to put food on the table. She wasn’t a regular sex worker but rented rooms by the hour. If she couldn’t afford the fee, she
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Little Ironies
Feb 09, 2021
“I don’t care if you are a Christian… you don’t get to dictate the way I live my life based on your religion.” The rant about abortion rights appeared on my Facebook page and as an atheist, I was sympathetic. Because Christianity is the dominant religion in this country, s
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Feb 04, 2021
She heard the roar of angry voices in the corridor and ran to hide in the bathroom. “Where is she? Where is she?’ The masculine voice in the outer room was insistent. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flattened herself against the wall as the door behind which she was hiding opened
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Chaos Of The Manchurian Candidate
Feb 02, 2021
The thief was furious when he found a 4-year-old child strapped into the back seat of the car he’d stolen. His response was to slam on the brakes and reverse direction. Finding the mother newly emerged from the grocery store with a gallon of milk, he scolded her for leaving her
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Let There Be Blood
Jan 28, 2021
His public defender said my testimony had saved his client from the death penalty. I’d worked with the prisoner in an ex-offenders program while I was in public life. His first incarceration was for theft. When he came to the program, I found him personable and recommended tha
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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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