Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Talking To My Hearing Aids
Oct 18, 2019
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At 81, I now have a pair of hearing aids, and believe me, I’d prefer not to. If I didn’t already know life moves at a frenetic pace, I would now, judging from the noise around me. I’ve worn these expensive devices for three weeks and I’m struggling to make the adju
Continue Reading →The Secret of “Secrets”
Oct 17, 2019
I hadn’t intended to share “Secrets,” the story I published earlier this month. When I read the printed version, I discovered errors: “compliment” for “complement”; “shinning” for “shining.” The punctuation was flawed with double periods in several pla
Continue Reading →Left Over Women
Oct 16, 2019
Our president, Donald Trump, is doing a great job of alienating most of the world. Certainly, he earned us no goodwill when he refused to shake hands with Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and, arguably, the real leader of the free world. Beyond insulting an ally, he p
Continue Reading →To Self-Publish Or Not To Self-publlish
Oct 15, 2019
All I wanted to do in my retirement years was write. I presumed the easiest way to do that was to find a publisher and let the company go through the mechanics of getting my books into print. So far that decision has proved unsatisfactory. I won’t go into details, but gi
Continue Reading →Dick, Jane and Spot
Oct 14, 2019
When I was a child of five, one of the first books I read in school was about Dick, Jane and a dog named Spot. They lived in a house with a picket fence on a sunny street with a mother and father named Mr. And Mrs. Little. Dick, Jane, and Spot had many adventures and I lov
Continue Reading →Grande Dame? Or Nothing But A Dame?
Oct 11, 2019
In the last two years of my political life, I served with 4 other women as a county commissioner. I was the fiscal conservative in the bunch but shared their liberal persuasion for social concerns. About money, I saw it as a fickle friend, not to be relied upon as the answ
Continue Reading →In Search Of An Original Idea
Oct 10, 2019
People sometimes ask if I’ve thought about publishing a selection of my blogs in book form. Naturally, I’m flattered, just as I am when they suggest my novels would make great movies. Such notions don’t swell my head. Steven Spielberg, I know, won’t be calling soon.
Continue Reading →On The Occasion Of My Mother’s 100th Birthday
Oct 09, 2019
Recently, my mother celebrated her 100th birthday. I took her to lunch at a restaurant we’d frequented over the years. The proprietor doesn’t open in the afternoons, but for us he did. To make the occasion festive, I brought a balloon and birthday cards sent by my friends wh
Continue Reading →Fire And Ice
Oct 08, 2019
I take my mother to lunch every Friday. At 97 she likes to stroll the mall to see the latest fashions. Passing a cosmetics counter she’ll often say, “I think it’s time to renew myself.” We pause over the glass display until a crisp looking salesgirl comes forward. She offers u
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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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