Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
What A Piece Of Work Is Man
Dec 27, 2019
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The human race seems to be cursed. So many inventions meant to provide peace and prosperity end up doing the opposite. Cars, trains, trucks, and boats have allowed commerce to flourish, but they also have given us global warming. The internet puts information at our fingertips but pro
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Goodbye To Fake Friends
Dec 26, 2019
My New Years’ resolution for 2020 will be to reduce the number of my Facebook friends. Unlike the woman from Kenya who had 5000, I can’t manage 400. Some friends I doubt are real. They never comment on the news feed. Once a year I send them my annual birthday greeting to whi
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Marie Eau-Claire
Dec 24, 2019
Courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net publicdomainpictures.net This Christmas Eve, I will share my fantasy “Marie Eau-Clair.” The Colored Lens published the piece in 2012. Given its mystical and magical theme, it seems perfect for the holiday season. I republish it here in its
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Standing In Line For An Ebook?
Dec 23, 2019
Because it’s electronic, a reader would think an eBook is available on demand. Surprisingly, however, readers who obtain their eBooks from libraries can face a lineup. The reason is simple. Libraries pay between $40 to $60 per title for a license to provide those works for a period
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Bias Is No Impediment To Justice
Dec 20, 2019
The axiom, “Liars sometimes speak the truth,” existed as far back as the ancient Greeks, and is still accurate today. But how are we discern the difference between truth and a lie? With regard to articles of impeachment, Donald Trump’s supporters have dispensed with the need to
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Bon Mots And Bonbons–The Case For Reading
Dec 19, 2019
We’d intended to walk to a coffee shop near my residence to enjoy bonbons with our beverages. Unfortunately, the morning rain altered our plans. Instead, we chose to settle into two Queen Anne chairs by a picture window in the lobby of the building where I live, our hot drinks fresh
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The Burden Of 5,000 Friends
Dec 18, 2019
A young woman from Kenya sent me a friendship request on Facebook the other day. Because I lived in east Arica for a time, I agreed. Seconds later a new message popped up. This one was from Facebook. The woman whose friendship I’d accepted had 5,000 already. The website wouldn
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Change Is Good
Dec 17, 2019
Working with an editor on my memoir taught me to appreciate how rapidly language changes. Like floodwaters, it flows, alters course and refuses to be controlled. The French have tried to apply rules to their native tongue, hoping to preserve its purity, but snippets of English breach
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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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