Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Many Women Don’t Get Feminism
Mar 15, 2017
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After three months of living with Donald Trump and hoping for the best, I continue to be dumbfounded by the strength of his support among women. We know 53% of white women supported him in the last election. (“Feminist Fall,” by Jessa Crispin, New Republic, March 2017.) Why th
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Beasts, Bitches And Masculine Rules
Mar 13, 2017
Sallie Krawcheck writes no matter what women do, if they play the game by men’s rules, they won’t win. “Women tend to get penalized no matter how they act on their way to the top. Those who get there are often set up for failure, tapped to lead only in moments of crisis, when th
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We’re No Angels — But We’re Pretty Good
Mar 10, 2017
I am wary that nerds are swallowing too many algorithms when I read interviews like the one recently published in Wired. (“The God Complex,” by Olivia Solon, Wired, March 2017, pgs. 18-19.) Yuval Harari has written a new book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, in which h
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PewDiePie — All The Rage In Every Sense Of The Word
Mar 09, 2017
I saw several references to PewDiePie on Facebook, recently, and also in the gossip area of my Yahoo page. Whether the name belonged to a person or a dessert, I didn’t know and didn’t much care. But the buzz grew until it piqued my curiosity. For my readers, many of whom are
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All You Need Is Love
Mar 08, 2017
We’ve all heard versions of the Cherokee saying, “Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.” The adage describes empathy, the ability to identify with the experience of others based on our own. The more experiences we have, the greater our emotional I. Q
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Anesthesia, The Brain And The Elderly
Mar 07, 2017
A few years ago, the father of a friend, a man in his mid-80s, required surgery under general anesthetic. The procedure was a success, but the elderly man began to suffer periods of disorientation and eventually developed full-blown dementia. Eventually, he was sent to a nursing h
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The Power Of Do-Gooders
Mar 06, 2017
The famous Guggenheim Museum began as a private collection. (Blog 2/20/17) An admirer of the old masters, Solomon R. Guggenheim was weaned away from them by a friend who took him to see the work of Vasily Kandinsky. That was the beginning of a love affair with modern art and Gug
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Technological Fatigue
Mar 03, 2017
If I’m representative of the American state of mind, then the nation is suffering from fatigue. Frankly, I’m unable to cope with technology’s rate of change. News seems to travel at the speed of light. I learn about bombings in Paris faster than I do about what’s on the lu
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The Three-legged Stool –Public Schools, Unions, The Fairness Doctrine
Mar 02, 2017
Replacing Anton Scalia on the U. S. Supreme Court is going set off some sparks. As a conservative, he dismissed the notion of a living constitution and believed that idea risked warping original intent. (Click) I understand the intellectual purity of his position but what has th
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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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