Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Tuesdays, Thursdays, And Me
Jan 08, 2021
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A friend who recently moved to the Midwest to be with her daughter and toddler grandson sent me an email today. Part of it read, “… it’s always a joy to see my grandson, as active, bouncy, and as curious as he may be but I’m really quite exhausted and at this point would
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The Special Providence Of A Fallen Sparrow*
Jan 04, 2021
The headline read, “The Milky Way is Probably Full of Dead Civilizations.” Given that the planet is undergoing a pandemic, I read on. Possibly the article contained a warning that the end was nigh. Apparently not. Astronomer Frank Drake came to his conclusion about dead planet
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A New Dawn, A New Year, New Hope
Jan 01, 2021
Painting by Oregon Artist, Michael Orwick https://www.michaelorwick.com/
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Time Capsule For The Future
Dec 30, 2020
While 2020 may have been a rough year for politics, science has made startling breakthroughs beyond a Covid-19 vaccine. Take fertilizer, for example. A product necessary to produce crops, it may contain toxic chemicals that endanger the planet. Now researchers at the Rich Earth Inst
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Getting A Jump On The New Year
Dec 28, 2020
I gave up my car not long ago and needed to call my automobile insurance company to cancel the policy. Having misdialed, I found myself talking to a bot. It asked numerous questions–everything from my age to whether I owned my home. By the fifth question, I realized I’d stum
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A Brief Discourse On Poetry And Power
Dec 23, 2020
I don’t write much poetry because it’s work. Poetry is precise and guided by the principle that “less is more,” even as it attempts to squeeze the meaning of the universe into a ball. Mathematics, also a language, is similar. E=MC(2) could be appreciated as a line of poetr
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This December, I’m Making A List
Dec 21, 2020
Those of us who see challenges through a filter of optimism can feel vindicated for that optimism because, despite warnings to the contrary, the 2020 Presidential election was fair. Never mind that more than 50 court filings were intended to upend the results. Or, that 126 members
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Perchance To Dream 7
Dec 18, 2020
(The Rules for Query Road) Some months have passed since I’ve shared information about my search for an agent to represent my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home. With embarrassment as well as humility, I must report I have contacted over 100 representatives and have been ignored or
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The Enemy Within
Dec 16, 2020
Shakespeare created many memorable phrases like, “to thine own self be true,” or “it follows as the night the day”– so many that I am hard-pressed to avoid the Bard from time to time. Yet there is one expression I couldn’t do without, particularly during the waning mon
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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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