Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Phyllis Schlafly Lives
Feb 03, 2017
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Newton’s third law of motion, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, extends from Mother Nature to human nature. Any mass movement will attract a large number of nay-sayers. Just as Phyllis Schlafly opposed the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1960s, some wo
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Hillary Clinton At Donald Trump’s Inauguration
Jan 30, 2017
Two days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United State, a woman on Facebook had a freak-out. Did she blame the Tea Party for his election, the Republicans, the rust belt, the Evangelicals? No, she blamed Hillary Clinton because she shot down Bernie
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The Federal Crime Victim’s Fund – Not Just For Victims Anymore
Jan 25, 2017
In my final years of public service, I’d become somewhat adept at finding places in our county budget where administrators could hide money. I don’t blame them. Managers long for stability and politician’s hunger to create new programs for which they can take bows. Even so, when
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A Religious Tourniquet For Medical Care
Jan 24, 2017
Three years ago, I warned a religious war was being fought and won under the guise of medical acquisitions and mergers. Catholic hospitals were buying secular hospitals and imposing religious restrictions on procedures that had previously been available. (Blog 11/8/2013) S
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Getting Old But Still Moving Forward
Jan 23, 2017
A Facebook friend put up a snapshot of me attending a writer friend’s book signing. I had braved a dark and stormy night to get there so when I spied my picture on social media, I wrote, “It looks like Albert Einstein and I have the same hairdresser.” Yes, at my age, I can l
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A Polemic
Jan 20, 2017
“A Polemic,” may be too grand a title for this blog. While not intending to be impassioned, I would like to lay out the reason why I labor each day to put a few ideas, most of them not my own, in to print. I owe that explanation to myself as well as to my readers. I write my
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Is Appalachia Happy?
Jan 19, 2017
Since Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land, the stock market has jumped to new highs. The president attributes that rise to his win but there is another explanation. As Liz Ann Sonders, a strategist of Charles Schwab, explains, companies are anticipating a ri
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When A. E. Houseman Speaks, This Author Listens
Jan 18, 2017
As technology keeps drawing people around the globe together, tribal instincts that once served us well, are putting us in danger. Some of the examples of tribalism are near to insanity: The owner of a convenience store in New Mexico put up a sign recently: “Obama and other Mu
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The Wizard, The Bitch And The Economy
Jan 13, 2017
A reader commented on my blog of January 4, 2017. The topic was about leadership. In it, I referenced an article where researchers had concluded values, above intelligence or experiences, was the primary quality for a statesperson. The woman recounted a discussion she’d had wi
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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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