Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Treacherous Aspects Of Power
May 02, 2017
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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” historian John Dalberg wrote at the end of the 19th century. A truism today, but scientists have begun to wonder if power is to blame for corruption or if people who seek power have aspects of character that are corr
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Hillary Clinton — Out Of The Shadows Too Soon?
May 01, 2017
I’ve never been clear how Hillary Clinton, who left the Secretary of State’s office with a 65% approval rating, could fall into disgrace the moment she decided to run for President of the United States. (“Hillary: Should she just go away?” The Week, April 21, 2017, pg. 17.)
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The Heresy In Deductive Reasoning
Apr 28, 2017
The political upheaval that put Donald Trump into the White House has left me pondering. Why did so many women ignore his sexists attitude when they voted for him? Why do his supporters remain loyal, insisting he is fulfilling his promises, when by any objective measure, he has betr
Continue Reading →A Shooting Star Looses His head
Apr 26, 2017
Shooting stars are noted for a sudden burst of light that soon disappears. Their conduct is a metaphor for the lives of many in the public eye. Still, actors, musicians, politicians and the like, all strive to leave their mark upon the world. Are we mortals foolhardy in our immo
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Hold The Middle — Before Things Fall Apart
Apr 19, 2017
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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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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