Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Ruminations On The Face Of Human Kind
Feb 05, 2018
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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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The Social Media Wars
Jan 29, 2018
We’ve come a long way from the Arab Spring when Facebook’s technology and that of other social media platforms stirred and facilitated freedom lovers. Those who supported democratic movements thought they were witnessing technology’s miracle: the ability for ordinar
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Libertarian Elitism
Jan 26, 2018
Recently, there was a dustup at Reed College, my alma mater. Like elsewhere, the students are balking against the curriculum. In particular, they resent being dragged through the Humanities, a survey course on western culture that begins with ancient Greece. To focus
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Numbers Don’t Lie
Jan 25, 2018
Recently, I spent an hour dealing with one of the companies that provides credit score histories. I didn’t have a problem. I was trying to prevent one after the business was hacked. I’m not clear how these enterprises came into existence, or why they’re allowed to track my
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Deneuve And Bardot — Frozen In Time
Jan 24, 2018
When one woman raises her voice to push forward the boundary on women’s rights, other women stand ready to play whack-a-mole with her head. (Blogs 2/3/27, 11/7/17) Most recently, two former French sex goddesses of the 1950-60s, Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot, (Click) ha
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A Question For My Readers
Jan 23, 2018
Not long ago, a blog reader wrote that the titles of my essays often hooked her into reading the text. But of course! That is my intention and I especially like it when I can draw a connection between my humble text and the work of a great artist. Unfortunately, the new dictat
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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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