Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Pulling The Plug
Oct 24, 2024
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A writer on my social media page announced he’d published his first book, recently. Overjoyed, he included a favorable comment from a well-known book review company. “I’m a genius,” he concluded tongue in cheek. Like a first kiss, his elation was understandable. Who
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War, A Crime Against Humanity
Oct 17, 2024
Consider this scene. The hour is midnight yet the sky is alight with drones exploding overhead. A 14-year-old girl and her mother take refuge against a wall in their living room in the hope of protection. Then a bomb slams into the apartment and leaves them lying on an exposed
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The Survival Imperative
Oct 10, 2024
In a society based on competition, it’s difficult to see how equality fits in. What’s more, the disparities wrought by climate change and wars make the notion seem a cruel joke. Those standing in the rubble left by Hurricane Helene see their lives scattered at their feet. The immi
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Reality In The River Of Time
Oct 03, 2024
Though some politicians would have us think otherwise, deprivation, not immigration, is the well-spring for much of our country’s social ills. Poverty breeds crime, not being foreign-born. What’s more pointing fingers at scapegoats doesn’t address the disparity. Recently, I
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No Room For Compromise
Sep 26, 2024
Does anyone enjoy complete self-confidence, particularly women? Melinda French Gates, the former wife of Bill Gates and one of the richest women in the United States has suffered moments of uncertainty. She relates that when she and her ex-husband attended conferences, Bill Gates dr
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Jiggles That Jangle
Sep 19, 2024
JINGLES THAT JANGLE Percy (One) Our new dog, named for the beloved poet, ate a book which unfortunately we had Left unguarded. Fortunately, it was the Bhagavad Gita, of which many copies are available. Every day now, as Percy grows into the beauty of life, we touch his wild curly h
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A Liliputian Task
Sep 12, 2024
No one likes paying taxes, least of all billionaires. They’d rather buy yachts. Obliged to keep up appearances, they give to charity, some less than others, Elon Musk being the stingiest. Nonetheless, they are lavish in their political contributions to politicians who favor th
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The Fools In Town…
Sep 04, 2024
I’m delighted to see the energy, money, and number of volunteers behind Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. I’m also excited that the country may soon have its first female President. Nonetheless, I continue to despair that ageism felled Joe Biden’s bid for a second term, and
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Out Of The Shadows Into The Light
Aug 29, 2024
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote those lines in his novel, The Great Gatsby, he may not have been striving for poetry, but he exposed the truth–which is what great art does. Lauren Larson isn’t an a
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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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