Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Billionaires Who Think Small
Feb 19, 2018
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Using wealth to build monuments to oneself isn’t easy. A person has to work to spend with panache, because bragging rights are becoming competitive. Recently, a Saudi Prince spent $450.3 million at Christie’s for Leonardo da Vinci’s, Salvador Mundi. (Click)
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Fire And Fury — Donald Trump’s Nuclear Strategy
Feb 16, 2018
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton described Donald Trump as “temperamentally unsuited” for the office. How prescient her words were. Most of us now know the holder of the nation’s highest office is, indeed, temperamentally unsuited. Neither a prudent n
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Words, Words, Words, I’m Never Sick Of Words
Feb 14, 2018
I have a program on my computer that critiques my writing. All too frequently, it gives me a red mark for sentences that are too long or for a vocabulary it says might challenge the average reader. The computer assumes I want to appeal to the average reader. And, I d
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Beauty May Be Truth, But It Isn’t Always Pretty
Feb 13, 2018
My last official portrait appears on my blog page. Seventy-three at the time, I knew I was old, but wasn’t prepared when the photographer pulled out a “soft” lens for the shoot. He said he’d take a few images with it. I might like them better. The proofs showed the
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Doubtful Hearts And Minds
Feb 12, 2018
As our society becomes increasingly automated, some leading thinkers are talking about what to do for workers who lose their jobs. I’ve written a few blogs on the subject, myself. (Click) One suggestion is to provide displaced workers a basic income. Different from unemployment
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Too Glossy For Prime Time
Feb 09, 2018
Never underestimate the power of a good cosmetic when it’s applied well. Young Joe Kennedy learned about his failure when he responded to the President’s State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 30. Having slathered himself with lip salve, the cameras picked up
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Assuming Freedom
Feb 08, 2018
Sarah Jones, a writer for The New Republic offers advice on how to seek a compromise to end the abortion war. (“Turning Pro-Life Blue,” by Sara Jones, The New Republic, Jan. 8, 2018, pgs. 9-10) Unfortunately, being young, she fails to recognize her advice is alre
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Tainted Trust
Feb 07, 2018
During a television interview about partisan politics, Republican, David Gergen, said a great divide existed between the Republican Party in the Watergate era and the one that exists today. The difference, and I paraphrase here, is that Watergate Republicans put the country before t
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The Truth About Mouthwash And It Ain’t Hogwash
Feb 06, 2018
Wishing for the good-old-days, makes me look old-fashioned, no doubt. But I wish for them, all the same. The electronic age has complicated my life in so many ways. I’m in a perpetual race to manage the upgrades, master new apps and avoid hacker traps along the way
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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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