Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Time For An Honest Chin-Wag
Nov 24, 2017
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I have as many points of dissatisfaction with my body as there are stars in the night sky. Discontent with one’s self image seems to be a feminine curse. I recall, as a kid, finding my mother banging one hip against a bedroom wall, her face as solemn as a witness to a public hanging
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Money Has Its Price
Nov 22, 2017
Knowing the difference between good and bad debt can have a major impact on a person’s financial health. So writes Ben Steverman of Bloomber.com (Excerpted in The Week, August 14, 2015, pg. 33) Bad debt is credit card debt which imposes a higher interest rate than other types of loa
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Can Robots Make Us More Human?
Nov 21, 2017
At the retirement center the other day, I inadvertently offended a frail, elderly woman without meaning to. Looking into her eyes, I saw the distress I’d caused and offered her a smile as well as an apology. The smile seemed to have helped. Walking away, I wondered what a robot woul
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Ruminations On Good And Evil
Nov 20, 2017
After 4 years of flogging my allegory, “Agent of God,” it was selected for Under a Dark Sign, an anthology to be published in October 2015 by WolfSinger Press. The novelette had been given an honorable mention in 2012 in Allegory Magazine but otherwise had been passed over. I unde
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Beyond 1984
Nov 17, 2017
What I know best about operating my computer is how to type. Still, I dare write about technology because I suspect others will want a heads-up about coming changes in their lives. What would you say, for example, if I announced homo sapiens are approaching a transhuman condition? I
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Woman Without A Country
Nov 16, 2017
Tasllima Nasrin is a woman without a country. Born in Bangladesh, she fled her native land in 1993 because religious fundamentalists threatened her, a physician who wrote about feminine oppression. Abused as a child, her work touches not only upon gender inequality, but also on freedo
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How To Help A Sick Health Care System
Nov 15, 2017
A quiet revolution took place in medicine at the beginning of the year which patients may have noticed but couldn’t explain. The federal electronic health records regulations (HER) went into effect January 1. The regulations mandate that all medical offices go paperless, a
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Too Lazy To Breathe
Nov 14, 2017
I’m an organized person and I can accomplish much in a day, but to be honest, I’m lazy. if I could hire someone to breathe for me, I would. My ideal life would be to lounge on a Caribbean beach with a good book in one hand and a rum and coke in the other. I’ve never been t
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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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