Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Weakest Of The Weak
Jun 08, 2018
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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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Technological Updates
May 29, 2018
Crispr is a technique that has added a large body of knowledge to our understanding of the human genome. (Click) (Click) It is a gene-editing technique which allows human DNA to be altered in the hope of ending deadly diseases like cancer and sickle-cell anemia. Two women worked tog
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Mocking Does Not Become Her
May 28, 2018
My morning began, as it usually does, by taking the pulse of Facebook. England’s royal wedding got most of the comments, which didn’t surprise me. What did raise my eyebrows was a gentleman’s remark, someone who is usually supportive on women’s issues. “Just can’t
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After The Fall, Don’t Blame The Women
May 25, 2018
After the 2008 financial crisis in the United State — the result of Wall Street bundling bad mortgages together and selling them as investments — writer Michael Lewis wrote, The Big Short, a best seller about what happened. Primarily, he focused on the few canny invest
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Blame The Robot
May 24, 2018
I’ve done some hand wringing about robots, wondering about the degree to which they will change our world. Take self-driving cars, for example. Who is responsible if a self-driving car has an accident. The designer? The manufacturer? The automobile owner? Or, can we blame a
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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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