Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Padding Retirement In Small Increments
Jul 03, 2019
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Sometimes financial advice sounds like science fiction. Saving for retirement with IRAs and 401(K) plans aren’t going to make anyone rich. The market is too choppy. What’s more, since the 2008 debacle, employees are saving less and dipping into their retirement accounts more t
Continue Reading →The Meat Paradox: How We Can Eat The Animals We Love
Jul 02, 2019
Cognitive dissonance is a term psychologists use to explain how the human mind protects itself from its inherent contradictions. Smokers deny a link between cancer and cigarettes so they can go on smoking, for example. (Blogs 3/17/16, 3/17/16) We all behave the same way. We’re h
Continue Reading →Chats, Libraries, Conventions: How A Writer Makes Friends
Jul 01, 2019
As an author, I get several invitations a month from my publisher to participate in library and book conventions. They all come with a price tag, some of them reasonable and some of them out of this world. None of my previous publishers presented me with this “opportunity,” so
Continue Reading →Half A Double Date
Jun 28, 2019
(Introducing guest blogger, Sydney Stevens a history writer who also publishes a daily blog about life in a small community. I hope my readers might enjoy a change of pace and meet a wonderful blogger. www.sydneyofoysterville.com) Yesterday my husband and I went with good friends on
Continue Reading →Weird Made Sherlock A Great Detective
Jun 27, 2019
WEIRD is how someone might describe Sherlock Holmes. The term is psychological parlance to describe people who think logically when problem-solving. (“The Science of How We Vote” Scientific American Mind, May/June 2016, pg. 8.) 15% of the world’s cultures think WEIRDly, mo
Continue Reading →Rose Colored Nostrils
Jun 26, 2019
Not long ago, I sat down to dinner at the retirement center with a woman I’d never met. We got along well but before the cheesecake arrived, she was in tears, telling me her version of the “perfume wars.” She loved perfume, she confessed, and as she spends much of her life
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The Buried Giant
Jun 25, 2019
Kazuo Ishiguro’s, The Buried Giant (Random House, 2015) is a tale signifying something, but the critics aren’t sure what. Jon Ronson of the New York Times (Click) calls it a fantasy or a story akin to allegory. Tim Holland of The Guardian attempts to cover all the basis, lin
Continue Reading →Guilty Pleasures
Jun 24, 2019
When my dad wanted to break the tedium of life, he’d get in his truck and drive off to the nearest sporting goods store. Two or three hours later he’d be back home with a new fishing rod or reel that put a smile on his face. I suspect many men have worn a similar smile, ha
Continue Reading →Clothes Maketh The Woman
Jun 21, 2019
There must have been a time when I cared about my wardrobe, but that was too long ago to remember. In college, I wore levis and sweaters. Later, as I travelled the globe, my wardrobe remained the same. Being elected to public office required some refinements. I bought pantyhos
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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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