Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Little Black Box And Other Intricacies Of The Human Mind
Jan 03, 2019
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One of my computer gurus ran into trouble with his machine recently. For two days, he bent over it, wondering what went wrong inside its “little black box.” He finally fixed the problem, but isn’t certain why it occurred. I shouldn’t laugh because I depend on this guy
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New Year. Same Old Human Race
Jan 02, 2019
The beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock of the human race. Frankly, I’m surprised we’re still around, having been in one conflict or another for the past 2000 years. Beyond that, we spend a good deal of time thinking about money and are willing to gut the pl
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Abortion Rights: How Many Advocates Are Enough
Dec 31, 2018
The woman was screaming into the phone. “How about I tell you what’s under… my sink and in my medicine cabinet and you tell me how to use it.” (“Alias Jane,” by Cindy Wolfe Boynton, MS, Fall, 2018, pg. 39.) She needed an abortion and she needed it soon. The year was
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Creativity, Good Grades and Intelligence
Dec 28, 2018
Here’s a surprising comment I discovered in a magazine, recently. “Research across industries shows that while there’s a modest correlation between grades and job performance the first year out of college, after a few years, the difference is ‘trivial’” (“Straight A’s
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The Communist Manifesto, Coca-Cola, And Mark Zuckerberg
Dec 27, 2018
In my freshman year in college, I discovered The Communist Manifesto was on my reading list. After years of hearing the book was pure evil, I gasped. A few pages into the material, however, and I learned what I’d been told was nonsense. What’s wrong comaraderie? Coca-Cola
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Thoughts On Christmas Passed
Dec 26, 2018
A few days before Christmas, I sat down to lunch with a friend of many years who is religious. He’s aware I’m an atheist, but that gives piquancy to our conversations. As we were sitting amidst holiday decorations, he seemed unable to refrain from saying, “I don’t know h
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A Christmas Story
Dec 24, 2018
Every holiday, I shop for children’s toys. I have no off-spring and, therefore, no grandchildren. I shop because my mother started the tradition years ago and she expects me to continue it. So, the day after Thanksgiving I found myself browsing through a local store, wandering past
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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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