Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Kings And Queens Without A Country
Jun 18, 2018
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After the romantic flap over the wedding between England’s Prince Harry to American, Meghan Markle, Oregon Public Broadcast announced 70% of the British population favored maintaining the monarchy despite the expense and the grumbling of detractors. Surprisingly, a number of other c
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The Virtual World: Too Many Men And Too Few Women
Jun 15, 2018
Last week, I wrote a blog capped by a cartoon which amused my web manager. (Click) It exposed the gobbledygook terms that accrue to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Apparently, the alphabet soup expresses different purposes. Or, as a tweet from a recent article revealed, “It’
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A Light In The Piazza
Jun 13, 2018
A funny thing happens when you ban girls from a boys’ club. Not only do they create their own, (Click) but what they build tends to have wide appeal. That’s what happened for Pooja Nath Sankar, now CEO of a Palo Alto Company called Piazza. Sankar didn’t plan to build a busin
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Why Phantom Thread Fails
Jun 12, 2018
Film critic Jason De Rosso makes a telling observation when he writes about the film, Phantom Thread, presumably the swan song of acclaimed actor, Daniel Day Lewis. “Maybe it’s because Phantom Thread comes close to landing flat on its face that it ends up such a breathtaking e
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Weakest Of The Weak
Jun 08, 2018
Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointments seem to be based on each candidate’s ineptitude. Rick Perry, head of the Department of Energy, forgot the department existed in his disastrous bid for president. (Click) Scott Pruitt, assigned to lead the Environmental Protection Agenc
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Women Who Are More Than Mad Hatters
Jun 05, 2018
It might be too early to worry about reverse discrimination with regard to women, but women-only colleges, like Wellesley, Mills and Smith are thriving and so are the ladies who lunch and wear extraordinary hats. They are the ones who’ve kept the women-only associations alive. M
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In His Own Words
Jun 04, 2018
In my upcoming memoir, I write about a Southern Baptist missionary I met in the 1960s, while living in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). She was a savvy woman, devoted to her work and endowed with a terrific sense of humor. Although I was an atheist, we became friends and from her, I
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The Path To Forgiveness Is Green
Jun 01, 2018
It’s not true that “Money can’t buy you love.” It can. Charities are eager to love me. Contribute to one and I hear from any of their neighbors who are within shouting distance. Each time I contribute, I’m aware I’m added to a list which is sold to other non-profit
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Upgrades Be Damned
May 31, 2018
Recently, I spent a terrible morning trying to keep up with various upgrades on my browser, on my e-books platform for Apple and for the site where I launch my blogs. “Upgrade” is the most annoying word in the English language, in my opinion. Demands for them never seem to sto
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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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