Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
This December, I’m Making A List
Dec 21, 2020
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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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Once More Through The Looking Glass
Dec 14, 2020
A friend at the retirement center sat down beside me one afternoon in the temporary lounge that management had arranged, its chairs set 6 feet apart. It’s a place where residents are supposed to carry on conversations while masked. Despite her face covering, I heard a sigh as she
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Outrunning The Giant
Dec 11, 2020
I chose to give up my car a while ago. Losing my transportation, together with the advent of the pandemic, has forced me to experiment with grocery deliveries. I’m a slow learner. Sometimes, one avocado arrives, or two, but never the third that is necessary for my guacamole.
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A Time To Grieve
Dec 09, 2020
I haven’t seen my friend in over two years. The reason has nothing to do with the pandemic. She’s ill and in pain. Accommodating guests isn’t on the agenda. Even the bed is her enemy. She lives and sleeps in a lounge chair. At least, she did until two weeks when she was se
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What A Piece Of Work Is Man!
Dec 07, 2020
A child, noting structural similarities between a human brain cell and the universe, asked a lecturer about the latter: “Where’s the body?” To eliminate the confusion, the speaker explained that as the laws of physics exist everywhere in the universe similarities exist, not to
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When Black Holes Can’t Be Trusted
Dec 04, 2020
Spinning on a blue marble at the edge of our galaxy in infinite space, we humans continue to assume we have control over our lives. Yet, almost every day science makes a discovery that astounds us. Recently, astronomers learned they were wrong in their understanding of black holes
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The Decline Of Bread And Circus
Dec 02, 2020
When Donald Trump leaves office, it will be difficult to envision how the media, cartoonists, and historians will cope. He is one of the most colorful presidents the country has known. Red is the hue that most comes to mind. He has executed more federal prisoners than any other of
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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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