Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Turning Lake Mead Into Mead
Aug 22, 2019
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In the summer of 1947, I took a walking tour of Boulder Dam with my mother. That’s when I met my first Texan, an encounter I never forgot. Though it was hot, maybe 90 degrees, our guide for the afternoon paused above the dam’s large reservoir and asked us to look down. “
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The Highest Canon
Aug 21, 2019
I wrote yesterday of my respect for clear writing, and how often I drowned in the words of clever writers. No sooner had I put down one edition of Harper’s and took up another than I discovered myself gasping for air a second time. The new essay was written by Will Self, an auth
Continue Reading →Salute To The Human Spirit
Aug 20, 2019
While being interviewed on a local talk show, the moderator asked me to name my heroes. I admit my mind went blank. Many people I admire. Some of them are ordinary folk. Others have names recognized around the world. I admire Mahatma Gandhi, for example. Without firing a
Continue Reading →Triumph Of An Imposter
Aug 19, 2019
“What kind of a woman are you?” Henri Matisse screamed at his model as he stood before his canvass. He and dozens of other Parisian painters in the 1920s, Chagall, Cocteau and Braque among them, would never find out. Only Picasso refused to paint Mari Lani, a model who became
Continue Reading →When A Blog Isn’t A Blog But A Rorschach Test
Aug 16, 2019
If you’ve returned to this blog page more than once, congratulations. You’re an intelligent reader. At least, that’s what my computer’s editor says. When I compose, I’m forever being red flagged for sentences that are too long and paragraphs that are too complex. So
Continue Reading →Punting On The Recesses Of My Mind
Aug 15, 2019
Late one afternoon, a friend came to visit at the retirement center. He’s a brainy fellow so our conversations often wander into curious places. At one point, I recall saying I thought human consciousness might be one way the universe keeps track of itself. I’d meant it as a
Continue Reading →American-Rusian Relations: More Complex Than You Think, Mr. President
Aug 14, 2019
I love Russian literature. Much of it is pessimistic, of course. If a bright future lies ahead, it will come in another lifetime. Certainly, that’s the view of Anton Chekhov. (Click) At the very least, I find this point of view eccentric. A Russian countess in Dostoevsky’s
Continue Reading →Smart Cremation For A Dumb Client
Aug 13, 2019
When I turned 39, I received my first letter from AARP. Looking down at the envelope, I was stunned. Me? Middle Aged? There’d been a mistake. If my response seemed melodramatic, then, imagine how I reacted when a crematorium invited me to lunch, recently. My heart stopped.
Continue Reading →The Military-Industrial-Technological Complex
Aug 12, 2019
In 1961, in his farewell address to the nation as our 34th President, Dwight Eisenhower warned that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” (Click) His words are often repeated, a reminder
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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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