Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Rumination: Civil Life In A Time Of Upheaval
Nov 26, 2019
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In 2011, I opined I envied the lifestyle of the monied class. I even speculated that having a butler, a cook, and a chauffeur would be necessary for my declining years. My 105-year house offered a clue. It required an army of gardeners, plumbers, roofers, and house painters to k
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Liberals At A Crossroad
Nov 25, 2019
Recently, I shared an article that argued if the Warren/Sanders wing of the Democratic party didn’t consolidate, the mathematical certainty was Joe Biden would win the nomination. A Sanders supporter wrote back to say he couldn’t trust Warren. She’d once been a Republican. Havin
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Small Planet For The Criminally Insane
Nov 22, 2019
While in public life, I worked with a district attorney who was a thoughtful man. His politics leaned toward conservatism, but that bias seldom interfered with the way he aligned facts. Objectivity of that degree is rare. For many, emotions rule. Upon occasion, he and I discussed
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The Overstory Of Trees
Nov 21, 2019
Shakespeare often threw his characters into the green world of the forest. After stumbling through acres of trees, they eventually discovered their inner selves. Midsummer Night’s Dream is an obvious example, but the king in King Lear, after being pummeled by a storm, also gains
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My Father’s Prejudice
Nov 20, 2019
My father lived with my mother and me until I turned 7. Every Sunday, he and I would jump into the car, always an Oldsmobile, and we’d drive to the center of town to buy the newspaper. If the first vendor we met was black, my father drove on, until he came to a white man
Continue Reading →The Immorality Of Sanitizing War
Nov 19, 2019
I sat down to coffee, recently, with a couple who’d lived in Albania after the Russians withdrew. The husband was serving as U. S. Ambassador at the time and during our conversation, his wife recounted a story about an event she hosted for some of the country’s political lea
Continue Reading →What Fools These Mortals Be
Nov 18, 2019
One of my favorite Shakespearian lines comes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream when Puck says to his Lord, “What fools these mortals be.” (Act iii, Scene 2.) He spoke at a time before psychiatry existed, and no one had coined the term cognitive dissonance disorder.
Continue Reading →Fantastic Beasts
Nov 15, 2019
I’m a fan of J. K. Rawling’s and hope to see her newest fantastic beasts film soon. Still, when I stop to consider, we humans are fantastic beasts, too. Artificial Intelligence (AI) won’t be a threat to us in the near future, if ever. The reason is we harbor my
Continue Reading →A Sinner’s Tale
Nov 14, 2019
As I mention in my upcoming memoir, for a time I lived in a pub in an English village. Quaint and cozy, it was of note because of a monk’s face, carved with a wink, that peered into the serving room. Behind it was a passageway, long since blocked, that in early day
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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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