Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Memoir: The Book Of Me
Sep 01, 2022
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“Politician Won’t Seek Higher Office,” the headline screamed. The reference was to an interview where I’d said I wasn’t moving my office to a 17th-floor high rise along with my fellow county commissioners. I hated elevators and worried about public access. The newspaper ba
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Warning To A Future Tenant
Aug 30, 2022
My Salinger Year is an entertaining film. In this coming-of-age story, a young poet is hired at a literary agency that represents J. D. Salinger. Her job is to shred unread letters from the author’s fans, but after scanning a heartfelt few, she decides to answer them. The plot unr
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The Age Of Unenlightenment
Aug 25, 2022
According to historians, the Age of Enlightenment dominated western thinking in the 17 and 18th centuries. Coming on the heels of the Scientific Revolution, it valued evidence of the senses, individual liberty, religious tolerance, and a separation between church and state. The major
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Criminal Minds
Aug 23, 2022
Sometimes, in the course of human affairs, actions are so preposterous, laws don’t exist to prevent them from occurring. For example, no one has suggested we need a rule that bars killer whales from competing in Olympic swimming competitions. Dogs aren’t required to have drive
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Truth As A State Of Mind
Aug 18, 2022
A blog I wrote about publishing memoirs drew different opinions. One woman said I sounded cynical. Another said the piece was droll. I tend to vote with the latter opinion, but the difference between the two illustrates a lesson I learned from my journalism teacher in high school.
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Biden, The Invisible Man
Aug 16, 2022
The budget pamphlet in my mailbox was titled “Financial Realities.” I laughed. As a person once responsible for a $200 million budget, I know financial realities are imaginary. Budgets are guestimates of the future based on the unlikely assumption that history will repeat
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Perchance To Dream 11
Aug 11, 2022
A year ago, I threw in the towel. By then my memoir had received more than 100 agent rejections. Presuming the fault was mine, I decided to rewrite the manuscript. The editor I’d hired to critique the original draft had called that version “literature.” She and I were the on
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Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Aug 04, 2022
Tooth extraction! Taking the day off. See you Tuesday, August 9.
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A Short Rant On Trust
Aug 02, 2022
He said it was okay to cheat. A well-known political pundit gave a thumbs up when the Democrats dumped money into the Republican campaigns of candidates who are an embarrassment to that party. Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a Republican who serves on the January 6 Commission, finds this
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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 four novels
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