Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
How Sweet It Is!
Jun 21, 2017
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Two men stood ahead of me in the cafeteria line at the retirement center. The first had severe heart problems, I knew. The second probably did as well for his stomach hung over his belt as if it longed to kiss his thighs. The first man bought a doughnut fritter glistening with e
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A Painting Is A Painting Is A Fake
Jun 20, 2017
” …there are experts and then there are experts, and they come in varying degrees of credibility.” So writes Milton Esterow about keepers of the canon in the art world, particularly those devoted to Pablo Picasso’s contemporary, Amedeo Modigliani. (“The Modigliani Code
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An Ethical Minefield Where Control Invites Chaos
Jun 19, 2017
When Jennifer Doudna at Berkley and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France collaborated on their CRISPR research, a gene-editing tool, (Blogs 9/11/15, 6/15/16) they little imagined they’d be starting a war. But when Feng Zang, of the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, tried to patent his
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You Can Talk But Fat Cats Are Indifferent
Jun 15, 2017
Ingrham’s, a large publishing and distribution company for writers’ works, sent me an email yesterday. They were raising rates for their services. The attachment was a long, single spaced document with several pages of contract changes. I am careful about material like thi
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Let Conscience Make Cowards Of Us All
Jun 13, 2017
As I wrote in an earlier blog, petty tyrants exist everywhere, even at the salad bar. (Blog 5/18/17.) Young, old, dark, fair, tall or short, they hold certain traits in common, according to writer Joshua Kurlantzic. (“Return of the Strongman,” by Joshua Kurlantzic, Bloomberg B
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Falling In Love Can Cost You Money
Jun 12, 2017
In the past, when I’ve written about buying art, I’ve said, purchase what you like and don’t think about your purchase as an investment. In fact, most of us aren’t investors. We’re looking to cover the walls of our homes and offices with pleasant images. I have, howeve
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Silicon Valley, The Ancient Egyptians and Passwords
Jun 09, 2017
Know what 123456 is? It’s the world’s most popular security password. (“To Fix Your Terrible Passwords, Kill them,” by Nate Lanxon, Bloomberg Businessweek, May 29-June 4, 2017, pgs. 36-37.) Understand, I mock no one for lack of originality. For a time, 000000 worked for
Continue Reading →Art As Truth In The Trump Era
Jun 08, 2017
Because artists pursue their passions whether or not anyone pays them, art thrives in the best and the worst of times. And, as Charles Underwood reminds us, like a weed, it gains strength during periods of adversity. (“Art in the Age of Trump,” by Charles Underwood, Town&C
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Qualified Immunity — Necessary, But Not Always Nice
Jun 07, 2017
I have held two publicly elected offices in my life. I served as a counselor with a regional government known as Metro. Later, I won a seat on the Multnomah Board of County Commissioners. Both times, the governments I served defended me against lawsuits while I performed my pu
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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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