Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Hold The Middle — Before Things Fall Apart
Apr 19, 2017
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Chided by a woman on Facebook for my blog of 3/20/17, she informed me that the terms “alt-right” and alt-left” belong to the Nazi era and had no place in a discussion about the extreme right and left in American politics. Her comment revealed she’d done little reading on the s
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The Future: DNA, Digital Diets And Eating For One
Apr 18, 2017
If I had a dollar for every diet I’ve encountered in my life, I’d be a rich woman. Some diets, like Mayo Clinic, South Beach and Atkins, focus on weight loss. Others make suggestions for a healthy life. Mediterranean, microbiotic, vegetarian, raw food diets have all been tou
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Contraception For Men — Will Obamacare Pay For It?
Apr 17, 2017
Teenage pregnancies are down across the United States but the reason isn’t because girls have learned to say “no.” The reason is they have easy access to contraception. (Click) Girls, rather than boys, have been held responsible for unwanted pregnancies and the responsibil
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Art Shall Have No Boundaries, No Oughts, No Shoulds
Apr 14, 2017
An art furor hangs over Dana Schatz’s painting, Open Casket, on display at the Whitney Museum Biennial in New York. The work depicts 14 year-old Emmett Till in his open casket after his brutal, 1955 murder in Mississippi, the consequences of a white woman’s false accusation
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Atheists And The Spirit That Moves Them
Apr 13, 2017
The letter began, “Don’t you dare defend the Constitution because it was written by Christians for Christians.” (“Crank Mail,” FFRF Free Thought Today, Jan/Feb, 2017, pg. 27.) The comment is kinder than most which the Freedom from Religion Foundation receives on a daily ba
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Another Keeper Of The Canon Speaks
Apr 12, 2017
Here we go again, another keeper of the canon is taking arms against a sea of MFA graduates and program writing, as she calls it, work which whittles narrative to the thinness of a toothpick, which mistakes craft for art and believes true writing is a self-indulgent rumination on self
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Another Endangered Species — The Tenant Farmer
Apr 11, 2017
Bees were put on the endangered species list, recently, along with certain butterflies. Some say a virus is killing them off. Others argue the fault lies with pesticides or a decline in habitat. The way builders are carving up agricultural land to erect houses makes me think a
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Duopoly, Gerrymandering And Gridlock, Oh My!
Apr 10, 2017
Rural America must be wondering if either the Republicans or Democrats represent them. The loss of jobs in their areas has caused disruptions of epic proportions. (Blog 4/4/2013) Despite President Donald Trump’s assurances he will restore opportunities for blue-collar workers,
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Thoughts About Alternative Truth
Apr 07, 2017
Because we live in a chaotic universe, Robert Lowenstein believes we invent narratives to make sense of our surroundings. (“The Stories We Fall For,” by Roger Lowenstein, Fortune, March 15, 2017, pg. 30). I’m inclined to believe him. The world really is of our making. Here
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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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