Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Georgia O’Keefe: Who Controls The Narrative?
Oct 31, 2019
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Georgia O’Keefe, “…laughed at the idea that anyone would care what she ate for breakfast, yet she understood that the mythology surrounding an artist’s practice was useful material.” (“Self-Made Woman,” by Rachel Syme, New Republic, July 2017, pg. 59.) Ernest
Continue Reading →Finding The Grailed
Oct 30, 2019
I’ve always loved high fashion. I consider it an art form, though you’d never guess to look at me. In my retirement years, I might pass for a bag lady. If I could, I’d wear pajamas all day. Dominique Browning, former head of House and Gardens, befor
Continue Reading →Hidden In Plain Sight
Oct 29, 2019
A few days ago, I left my hairdresser’s shop feeling happy. When a woman’s hair looks good, she feels good, too. Then I reached my car and discovered my keys were missing. Suddenly I felt as if I’d swallowed a live gerbil. Of course, my keys had to be near. I’d driven to the s
Continue Reading →Stranger Than Fiction
Oct 28, 2019
One of my favorite novels of all time is Patrick Süskind’s, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. The protagonist is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born to a woman who was a fishmonger in 1738. Having had 6 children, all still-born, she tries to abandon the 7th but is caught and hanged for
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New Beginning For Just Read It
Oct 25, 2019
The month of May marks a new beginning for Just Read it and for me. Just Read it is the 10 minute YouTube video program Susan Stoner and I have co-hosted over the last 4 years. During each show, a Portland, Oregon author joined us to discuss a book from the New York Times B
Continue Reading →Black English, Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez And Nancy Pelosi
Oct 24, 2019
I may have told this story before, but it bears repeating. When I headed a teacher’s union, years ago, I defended a black member whom the school district longed to dismiss. Her hair, greying enough to appear dusted with ash, surrounded a leathery face that seemed incapab
Continue Reading →Assisted Living Needs An Assist
Oct 23, 2019
There’s a reason why women don’t earn as much as men, and discrimination isn’t the cause. It stems from a female’s cultural role as a caregiver. In fact, 81 percent of people who tend to a family member in the home are women. Unsurprisingly, most of them are mothers and
Continue Reading →Random Thoughts On Clocks, Roseanne Barr And Race
Oct 22, 2019
When a person reaches “a certain age,” doctors begin to examine him or her with an eye to senility. One of their tests requires a patient to draw the face of a clock and insert the required numbers. I tend to fail because I prefer hexagonal clocks to round ones a
Continue Reading →Amazon Gives Authors, Publishers And The Public The Squeeze
Oct 21, 2019
One of my fellow authors is scratching her head because she’s discovered her books are being sold on foreign websites. Her discovery raises a couple of questions. How did her novels wander so far from the home? Does one get bragging rights for making the bestseller list in Tra
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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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