Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Mark Zuckerberg Has A Dream — Heaven Help Us!
May 15, 2017
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Mark Zuckerberg and his nerdy cohorts have a dream to turn the internet into a global village that will spread ideas and possibly democratic seeds to all parts of the world. (“Connection can breed contempt,” by Jamelle Boule, excerpted from Slate in The Week, May 5, 2017, pg.
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Too Much Information And Too Little Public Good
May 12, 2017
Unlike a declining number of people on the planet, I can remember when my life wasn’t documented. I can recall researching the subject of ear wax at the library without finding my mailbox stuffed the next day with discount coupons for drops or scrapers to facilitate its removal.
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Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
May 11, 2017
With a billionaire in the White House, people around me are talking about money and privilege and blaming the rich for most of our social ills. Is it any wonder the upper class suffers from paranoia? If you doubt my observation, consider writer Jessica Pressler’s report that sec
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Anger, Righteousness And Outrage — Only One Empowers
May 10, 2017
The saying has been around for a long time: “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.” A number of people seem to be angry on Facebook, lately. A group of women dumped on Ivanka Trump the other day for defending her father when she was Angela Merkel’s guest at t
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Warning: Don’t Invest In Hot Air
May 09, 2017
Donald Trump’s promise to revive the coal industry gives a false hope to miners who haven’t seen a paycheck in a while. Fossil fuels are on their way out and coal, being the dirtiest, is already feeling the effect. Oil will be around a while longer, but if I were a young inves
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Ivanka Trump, Delusion And The Paris Agreement
May 08, 2017
I was going to write about oil today, until I came across a scathing article about Ivanka Trump. At the Berlin conference on women entrepreneurship, which she attended as a guest of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, the audience booed when she responded to a question about her fa
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The 21st Century And The Dark Ages Of Reproductive Rights
May 05, 2017
A jealous boyfriend murders his pregnant lover and is charged with a double homicide. Two lives are lost, are they not? 38 states believe this is the case and have enacted fetal homicide laws. (“Some Form of Punishment,” by Nina Liss-Scultz, Mother Jones, May/June 2017 pgs. 48-5
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The Handmaid’s Tale And Other Facets of A Woman’s Life
May 04, 2017
Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, shows us a world where women’s roles can change overnight as might soon be the case in Turkey. Tayyip Erdogan, his power rooted in the conservative Islamist AK Party, has recently managed constitutional changes that make him a near
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Getting Serious About Laughter
May 03, 2017
Yesterday, I sat down in the midst of a circle of women at the retirement center. Mine had been a long day and I was inwardly chortling about an email I’d received from a young woman. Laughter is best when shared, so I told my companions about my invitation to a writer to appear
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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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