Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Twenty-Six Percent Of The American Population
May 11, 2018
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I joked with a friend, recently, that if religious conservatives have their way, abortions will be illegal at the point of coitus. We both laughed. But I’m not laughing anymore. Iowa’s woman governor, Kim Reynolds, has signed a bill that makes abortion illegal at the first
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Down The YouTube Rabbit Hole
May 10, 2018
I have a friend who thinks whatever appears on YouTube must be true. Though a sensible woman in all other respects, she thrives on conspiracy theories, and YouTube abounds in them. There, she can find fake news on the cabal to poison our water systems; a threat to destroy organic fo
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A Brief History Of Stephen Hawking
May 08, 2018
If the young want to know why the old keep looking to the past, I’ll tell them. Sometimes, we old folks don’t like where the future is taking us. Our measuring stick is Time and being longer than theirs, the old can recognize the difference between progress and change. W
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The Relative Comfort Of Prison
May 07, 2018
When I served in public life, common knowledge was that the number of jail inmates swelled in winter. Desperate to come in from the cold, the indigent resorted to petty crimes and waited for the police to arrest them. Law enforcement officers became social workers. Their job was
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The Right To A Room Of One’s Own
May 04, 2018
Recently, Ben Carson, head of Housing and Urban Development, proposed reducing rent subsidies almost threefold for the poorest of the poor. If his proposal were to pass Congress, it would mean the indigent would have to spend almost 2/3 of their income for housing, leaving 1/3 for
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Donald Trump’s Sleight Of Hand To Pervert American Justice
May 03, 2018
President Donald Trump will probably appoint a Supreme Court Justice during his presidency. That appointment will tilt the current balance between liberal and conservative justices on that bench. His choice will be of great concern and keep journalists up to their elbows in ink fo
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The Infinite Black Holes Of The Mind
May 02, 2018
I bumped into an acquaintance at the grocery store the other day. He said the previous weekend he’d attended a conference for writers. What he learned from one book agent surprised him. According to her, some authors are finding inspiration by using Google’s search engine. T
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A Blogger’s Life
May 01, 2018
I live two lives, one as a writer of books and the other as a blogger. I love both. The memoir I’ve been working on has been intensely satisfying. But to complete the memoir, I’ve obliged my readers to live on blog re-runs. I am thankful for their patience. During the in
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FREE IS A VERY GOOD PRICE
Apr 30, 2018
Happy to say the memoir I’ve been working on is now in the hands of an editor, and I can return to my blog. Thank you all for sticking with the re-runs and for you patience. But before I return to my usual routine of social comment, I want to extend an invitation to all writ
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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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