Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
All You Need Is Love
Mar 08, 2017
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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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Tweets, Aphorisms And Adages — When Less Is More
Feb 24, 2017
Not long ago, I had an exchange with an attorney who corrected my use of the words tactics and strategy. I replied his distinction was without a difference and pointed out the English Oxford Dictionary (OED) recognized the words as synonyms. Lawyerly language, as my attorney fr
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Nothing New Under The Sun — The Overton Window
Feb 23, 2017
The Overton Window is the current term for moving the inert political middle to the right or the left. It refers to “the range of policies on any given issue that are, at the moment, popular enough for a politician to campaign on successfully.” (“A Theory of Everything,” by
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Rutherford Classics — Cheaper Is Better
Feb 22, 2017
Opening my electronic mail, recently, I found as comment from a reader: “Each time I read Gothic Spring, or any of your novels, really, I’m reminded again that you are a storyteller extraordinaire.” I’m not modest enough to bury the compliment. Writers cherish a few kind
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College Tuition — Legacy Preference Or Walk On Water
Feb 21, 2017
Sitting down to coffee with a woman who runs a small non-profit organization, she began our conversation by thanking me for my recent contribution. Her remarks were gracious and allowed me to imagine I’d given significant assistance to her cause. Later, however, she let slip that
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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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