Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
May The Force Be With Us
Jul 20, 2020
0 Comment
While browsing through the internet the other day, I learned about an exciting new discovery in quantum physics. Scientists have learned that some quantum particles adhere to one another, not by electromagnetism, as we supposed, but by something called the strong force. I will ventu
Continue Reading →
Quiet Revolutions Of The Pen
Jul 17, 2020
While the country is tearing itself apart with protests like CHOP, a call for racial justice, and outrage over laws requiring face masks, I mark the passing of three writers who, through their publications managed to change the world and did so without provoking violence: Kenneth Le
Continue Reading →
Boredom’s Gift
Jul 15, 2020
Waiting for Gadot, a play about waiting and written by Samuel Beckett, had its one-night performance at San Quentin in 1957. When it ended, the inmates were reported to have given the production a standing ovation. Few know better about waiting than prisoners, their lives on hold, and
Continue Reading →
Sending A Message
Jul 13, 2020
I’ve always taken it for granted though I’ve cursed the long lines that result from staff shortages. Other than have a tooth pulled, I’d do anything to avoid the Post Office. I buy my stamps from the grocery store and mail my packages at a stationery shop around the corner fro
Continue Reading →
Jabberwock Unbound
Jul 10, 2020
A friend sent me an email this morning to say that in honor of the times in which we live, she was writing a new version of the Jabberwock. I replied to her post as follows: “I woke up today with a new first stanza of the poem tumbling in my head.” For those who have yet to meet
Continue Reading →
Micawber’s Way
Jul 08, 2020
In David Copperfield, Wilkins Micawber reveals the secret to financial happiness: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds], twenty [shillings]’and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, res
Continue Reading →
Executive Order 13672
Jul 06, 2020
The Harry Potter gang has had a falling out over the definition of woman. Daniel Radcliffe one of the stars of the famous Hogwarts series says a transgender woman is a woman. His creator, so to speak, J. K Rowling thinks otherwise. “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attra
Continue Reading →The Stock Market Isn’t the Economy
Jul 03, 2020
My broker called with a stock recommendation, yesterday. Beaten down by Covid-19 uncertainty, this long-established company had a good balance sheet, modest debt, and paid a decent dividend. I decided to take the recommendation. As a rule these days, I’m nibbling cautiously because
Continue Reading →
Women–The Least Of These?
Jul 01, 2020
An article appeared on Facebook recently that quoted a preacher who in 2019 sermonized that educating women was a sin. His sentiment reflects the values found in the New Testament, but the idea that women should be subservient to men probably goes back to the dawn of human existence.
Continue Reading →
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
To access and subscribe to my videos on YouTube, Click Here and click the Subscribe button.