Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Doubtful Hearts And Minds
Feb 12, 2018
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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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Ruminations On The Face Of Human Kind
Feb 05, 2018
In a recent opinion piece, Clive Thompson begins with the question, “What do you do when you discover you are wrong?” (“Retraction Heroes,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, Feb, 2018, pg. 034.) He goes on to extol the merits of an evolutionary biologist, Daniel Bolnick, who pub
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Yet Another Inconvenient Truth
Feb 02, 2018
NBC TV host Megan Kelly and Jane Fonda squared off recently during an interview in which Kelly asked Fonda about her cosmetic surgeries. (Click) Fonda was caught off guard. She’d come to promote her latest theatrical venue and wasn’t expecting a girly snarl. The question str
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Guaranteed Gambol
Feb 01, 2018
For the very rich, collecting art isn’t for love but for money. (Blog 2/20/17) In today’s world, investors are looking for guarantees. (Blog, 6/20/17) They want a fixed price for a famous work they put up for sale. Otherwise, they risk lowering
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Love In A Time Of Change
Jan 31, 2018
In 1952, a man flew to Denmark and came back as a woman. Her new name was Christine Jorgensen, and she made headlines around the world. I was 16 at the time and, until Christine made her sex change public, I never understood people could be uncomfortable with their gender. Sadly
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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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