Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
2017 — It Hasn’t All Been Bad
Dec 21, 2017
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Christmas is almost here, and I’m already looking forward to turning the calendar page on 2017. But it wasn’t all bad. Science had a good year. Gene therapy made inroads in the fight against cancer. Folks allergic to peanuts may soon have a treatment. Even a man, paralyz
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Last Of The Humans — May The Force Be With Us
Dec 20, 2017
Without a doubt, the digital world is taking us where no man or woman has gone before. The universe of the mind is rapidly melding with the natural one, creating infinite possibilities. Having reached the edge of the new frontier, we’re about to face unanticipated challenges, the
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Bonfires Of The Vestal Virgins
Dec 19, 2017
After 35 years on the bench, a federal appeals court judge is facing the sexual harassment charges of four women. Three staffers said he showed them pornographic photos in his office. A fourth complained he suggested she workout naked. (“The U. S. at a glance…” The Week, Dec
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The Help — And How To Comport Yourself Around Them
Dec 18, 2017
I pity the folks who will take care of me when I grow too old to help myself. Like my mother, I don’t accept assistance easily. Already, I’m having a tug of wills with the women who clean my apartment at the retirement center. I can’t stop them from scrubbing my toilet,
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The Court Of Public Opinion
Dec 15, 2017
Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Fair enough. What surprises me is how many think that opinion supersedes due process, a person’s right to impartial justice. In a recent commentary about Al Franken in The Washington Post, Anna Marie Cox, host of Crooked Media’s,
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Robin Hood Is Alive And Well
Dec 14, 2017
Tis the season when charities are making a final holiday push for money to fund their causes. They know how to tug at the heartstrings, but some folks still appear to have money to burn. Recently, I read the auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, are offering purses wit
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Is Government Ready for Amazon Prime?
Dec 13, 2017
While in public office, I opposed local government giveaways that enticed corporations to move to their communities. The promise of jobs and payrolls taxes seldom matched expectations. One company decided to build in Portland after receiving huge incentives. What the locals got in
Continue Reading →I’m Back, But Thanks to Washington D. C., I Know I Wasn’t Missed
Dec 12, 2017
While I’ve been away, no one in Washington has been sleeping. Unlike my memoir, which makes slow progress, politics never has writer’s block or worries about stopping to research facts. I’ll write some opinions about the world stage over the next few days. Then I’ll retu
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Rent-A-Friend: Human Contact For a Price
Dec 08, 2017
Japan, a country at the forefront of robotics, has come up with a solution for loneliness. No doubt robot companions are in our foreseeable future, but the Japanese, like the rest of us, know it’s no substitute for genuine contact. That’s why a company in that country has come u
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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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