Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Divine Nature — A Rumination
Apr 03, 2018
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I had a long and convoluted conversation with my stock broker this morning. Times are volatile for the market and for the world, and so we bent our heads together to examine ways to preserve capital. In the end, we concluded no place was safe. Putting money in a bank, bonds or i
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The Virtual Afterlife
Apr 02, 2018
When I was a child, I’d often stand in front of the Philco radio and pretend I was a concert conductor. “Beethoven’s Fifth” and “Flight of the Bumble Bee,” gave me a good, aerobic workout as did Mussorgsky’s, “Great Wall of Kiev.” 70 years have passed and I don’t d
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Living With A Wild God
Mar 30, 2018
In August, I read a review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Living with a Wild God. (Blog 8/11/14) The work centers around an experience in her early life which she describes as a shift in her level of consciousness. Having had a similar experience in my 40s, I decided to get m
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Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman
Mar 29, 2018
Tomorrow, October 26, women of Saudi Arabia will take to the streets in their cars in a mass protest against the taboo that forbids them from driving. The current prohibition isn’t a matter of Islamic law. What women are facing is a long held prejudice that presumes driving is a pri
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A New Kind Of Choice
Mar 28, 2018
Female genital cutting (khatna) is alive and well in the United States, even though it was outlawed in 1996. (“It Happens Here,” by Tasneem Raja, Mother Jones, July, August, 2017 ,pgs. 13-15.) It survives because women, largely of the Muslim Bohras sect, (Click) protect the
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Fools Never Wonder
Mar 27, 2018
At a party years ago in Tanganyika, (Tanzania) a newly elected Nigerian official sat to my left at dinner. During the course of the meal, he leaned in my direction with a furrowed brow. “Tell me, in a democracy, when one party wins an election. why does it tolerate the e
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Do Not Look Back With Disdain
Mar 26, 2018
Understand, there are decades between me and the new arrivals to feminism. I’ve welcomed the Baby Boomers, the Gen Xers and now the Millennials. Each generation interprets the movement according to its values. For a time, there were those who thought being called a “fe
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Hope And Dreams
Mar 23, 2018
Recently, I came across a line in a news report that gave me pause. “Mexican drug cartels earn some $25 billion selling drugs in the U. S.A.” (“The World at a glance…” The Week, May 19, 2017, pg. 8.) Add the profit from the Middle East drug trade and the sum doubles, e
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“Let’s Have Lunch” — The Most Terrifying Words To My Ears
Mar 22, 2018
Let me tell you about my work day. I do so because I wish to make a point. My mornings begin at my computer, preferably before 10 am. I practice this ritual 7 days a week. Monday through Friday, I compose essays that will appear later as one of my blogs. Composing oc
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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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