Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
It’s Bouba/Kiki Time!
Sep 29, 2022
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The picture on my Facebook page was of a set of stairs. I recognized them as those that led to a Chinese restaurant I frequented when I worked in the city. The food was good and cheap, and customers appreciated the fast service. If I arrived for lunch alone, I’d usually find a tab
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The End Of Tribalism
Sep 27, 2022
I sat down to brunch with a married couple I’ve known for years. The friendship is so comfortable, we dare to talk about religion and politics. Mostly we discuss books. The husband told me he was working through the novels of a Japanese woman who wrote fantasy. He couldn’t r
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The Future’s Emerald City
Sep 22, 2022
A strategist for the democratic party, Lisa Smith, sums up her political view of the world. It’s radical that being reasonable is radical and being normal is abnormal. ( ”Radical Reason” by Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, October 2022, pg.43.) Profound as well as surprising, the comme
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Self-Evident Truths
Sep 20, 2022
Most of us remember January 6, 2021, when Republican Senator Josh Hawley raised his fist to indicate support for insurrectionists gathered outside the Capital. Many of his fellow Americans were shocked by his gesture, but not all. Recently, Hawley felt enough wind at his back to t
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Make Luck The Reality
Sep 15, 2022
Knowledge is power said Elizabethan Francis Bacon. The father of empiricism, or modern science, put his faith in the observable rather than the spiritual. Studying nature was enough to glorify God, he said. Since then, mankind has amassed a store of information in subjects far ranging
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The Three Graces Of The Queen
Sep 13, 2022
Getting Lost to Find Home, my upcoming memoir, will reveal my childhood relationship with my father was a rocky one. We didn’t make our separate peace until I’d graduated from college. Even then, communication wasn’t easy. He was an Indiana farm boy with an 8th-grade educa
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Nickle And Dimed For America
Sep 08, 2022
When I complained my cell phone didn’t come with a user’s manual, the woman seated beside me at the retirement center suggested I upgrade to a smartphone. “I’m not smart enough for a smartphone,” I wailed. I got no sympathy. “If you don’t get on the caboose, you can’t
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How To Love A Wall
Sep 06, 2022
My high school math teacher, Mr. Crawford, taught me a great lesson in life. I don’t remember much about the right angles of an isosceles triangle, but I do remember his adage: Your freedom stops where somebody’s chin begins. Personal freedom isn’t absolute. If I am to have it,
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Memoir: The Book Of Me
Sep 01, 2022
“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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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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