Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Spiritual Understanding Of How To Live
Nov 02, 2018
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A funny thing happened on the way to the theater the other night. A friend was driving and while we sped along the darkened streets, she admitted her vision wasn’t as good as it used to be. Like me, she’s in her 70’s so I wasn’t surprised by her confession but noted it was
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June 8, 2010
Nov 01, 2018
Pooh Bear Demystified Socrates observed that man is a social animal. If I’d have been his contemporary, I’d have added the words, “who likes a story.” When a journalist writes, “First the king died and then the queen died,” we have an article. When an author writes, “F
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June 7, 2010
Oct 31, 2018
POOH BEAR, POUND CAKE AND EZRA POUND Sunday, I took an imaginary walk in the park. In reality, I was somewhere else, but as it was a sunny day, my mind kept wandering to the place where there are trees, a duck pond and an expanse of grass to sit upon. In my mind, I laid out a blanke
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The War Over Gun Control
Oct 30, 2018
Here’s a fact that should give us pause: “Crime in Japan has become so rare that police often have nothing to do. In 2015, there was just one gun homicide. Guns are virtually illegal there.” (“News,” The Week, October 27, 2017 pg. 16.) No wonder the Japanese have so ma
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Harold Pinter, Humor and Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy
Oct 29, 2018
Recently, someone posted a remark by playwright Harold Pinter on Facebook. It read, “How can you write a happy play? Drama is about conflict and general degrees of perturbation, disarray. I’ve never been able to write a happy play…” I did a thesis on Pinter when I was
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Blockchain — The New Entanglement
Oct 26, 2018
A new wave of innovation is hitting cyberspace which few of us know about and fewer will probably notice — though the effect on everyday lives will be profound. I write of Blockchain. Blockchain “…concatenates (or chains) cryptographically verified transactions into seq
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An Atheist Ruminates On Piety
Oct 25, 2018
Not long ago a celebrity made news by dying peacefully in his sleep. A woman on Facebook noted his passing with the observation that people are destined to die the way they lived. Her words were meant as a tribute to the deceased, but the statement went too far. Normally, I’d ha
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Tinkering With Mother Nature
Oct 24, 2018
Years ago, actress Dena Dietrich, dressed in Greco-Roman garb, her dark hair encircled in a crown of daisies appeared in a commercial for Chiffon margarine. “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” she warned. Then she stared into the camera, her eyebrow arched, leading us to un
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For The Price Of A Single Night At The Theater, I Could…
Oct 23, 2018
Last week, I asked a retired friend how she planned to close out the summer. She said she’d do what she always did, join friends at the annual play festival in Ashland, Oregon. Ashland is a quaint town in the middle of rural Oregon, dedicated to recreating Shakespeare’s Elizabet
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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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