Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
When Fantasy Rules
May 22, 2020
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While thumbing through a magazine, I came across writer Anne Tyler’s confession that she feared to concentrate upon a bad idea because it might come about. She holds herself responsible for the coronavirus pandemic, in part, because for some time she’d been praying for an excuse t
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Old Enough To Laugh
May 20, 2020
Because of the coronavirus, she was wearing a mask which made it difficult for me to identify her, at first. She was walking her dog, which I did recognize, but the cane her right hand came as a surprise. At 97, she’d eschewed using one until now. Keeping an appropriate dis
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Still Unequal
May 18, 2020
Recently, I opened my Facebook page to find a picture one gentleman had posted of Ivanka Trump. It showed her as a teenager, her hair a dark brown, and her nose longer than seen in recent photographs. He was suggesting her current face wasn’t her natural one. The jibe saddened me.
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Perchance To Dream 5
May 15, 2020
“..we just aren’t wholeheartedly connecting with your work, despite its many charms. So, we should step aside.” An agent sent me this rejection of my memoir recently. To be fair to my manuscript, all the person received was my query. But I won’t quibble. A compliment is
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The Hollow Men
May 13, 2020
The day before the coronavirus prompted the library to close at my retirement center, like everyone else, I rushed to the stacks to gather as much reading material as I could carry. My neighbors, being more nimble than I, had left the shelves almost bare by the time I arrived. All tha
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Making The Most Of A Murky Situation
May 11, 2020
The bookstore owner who hosted my summer writers’ workshops closed her doors last December. The rent had ballooned too high, but she hoped to find another location. Then the pandemic hit in February 2020. Looking back, the woman might have felt she’d had a close call. Unlike o
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Now For Something Completely Different
May 06, 2020
Don’t get me wrong. I admire House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She knows how to crack a whip over her Democratic caucus to lead the country forward. The job, I imagine, invites plenty of frown line, but she appears to have gone a tad too far with the Botox in her effort to appear perpetua
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Technology, Good Intentions And The Road To Hell
May 04, 2020
Thanks to hackers who spirited my personal information into the dark web, I’m getting weird emails. Some of the senders write revealing details about me as if we’ve known each other for years. “Delete that stuff,” my hardware guru advised. “They’re crooks pretending to kno
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Laughter In A Time Of Pandemic
May 01, 2020
Life is interconnected, making sorrow and absurdity cousins. Sometimes that interconnection invites laughter. The reaction might seem perverse but it can also be enlightened. In times of great adversity, if we look, we might see clowns cavorting in the margins of the shadows. The an
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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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