Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
My Father’s Prejudice
Nov 20, 2019
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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
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
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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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