Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Sinner’s Tale
Nov 14, 2019
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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
Continue Reading →Displaced Person
Nov 13, 2019
Late one afternoon, after my gym workout, I stopped for a cool glass of water in the retirement center’s lounge. With no one around, I sank into one of the padded chairs and stared into empty space. A couple strolled by to read the menu posted for dinner. &nb
Continue Reading →Perfume As The Art Of The Story
Nov 12, 2019
I saw no mystery in it. When I was a child of 5 or 6, I made perfume by gathering sweet-smelling flowers, roses, daphne, and honeysuckle, and dropped them into a bowl of cold water. Next, I crushed them with a wooden spoon and after a few minutes, I had perfume for my moth
Continue Reading →Questions For A Brave New World
Nov 11, 2019
With so much political turmoil around the globe, much of it spawned by our President, I wonder if anyone is thinking about the future? All this concern for North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear capabilities, for example. How does it compare to the growing cyber threat? Are nuclea
Continue Reading →Truth, Relativity, And Time — Lessons Our President Should Have Learned
Nov 08, 2019
Whether or not Albert Einstein gave his brain to science may be a matter of debate, (Click) but it would be fascinating to compare his mind to Donald Trump’s. Einstein’s IQ is 160 while Trump claims his is 156. The number means less to me than how well a person g
Continue Reading →Escape From The Matrix Of Social Media
Nov 07, 2019
A woman quit Facebook today, after saying goodbye to her friends. She’d have enough of the growing incivility. I admit some of the messages on my news feed sound like word bombs from Syria. Surprisingly, much of this foaming at the mouth comes from liberal democrat
Continue Reading →Dirt Cheap Prescriptions Not Always Good For Patients
Nov 06, 2019
Recently, I left my dental office with a generic drug prescription and paid less than $3 for it. Medicare paid the major portion, but I admit, I had reverse sticker shock. After the EpiPen scandal, where a generic drug that normally sold for $50 suddenly shot up to $300, I
Continue Reading →Women — Last In Line But Up To The Challenge
Nov 05, 2019
The easiest way to affect social change is to affect the flow of money. Talking about women’s rights and equal pay may get lip service from politicians and civil rights groups but it won’t move the pay needle a jot until Wall Street sees a reason to respond. Universal
Continue Reading →A Hymn To Fruitcake And Traditionally Built Women
Nov 04, 2019
I love sinking into a new book from Alexander McCall’s First Ladies’ Detective series. Set in East Arica’s Botswana, the area around which I lived for two years, I am well acquainted with the rhythms of life in that part of the sub-Saharan desert. Each new book is like a t
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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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