Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Quiet Corners, Hidden Adventures And A Bucket List
Feb 09, 2017
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One of my favorite movies is the 1986 film, 84 Charing Cross Road starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. The story is based on real events and is a simple one. Bancroft’s character is a writer who lives in New York as World War II looms on the horizon. Unable to find some r
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I Am A Member Of The Zebra Party
Feb 08, 2017
I’ve admitted that until the election of George W. Bush, I was a lifelong Republican of a moderate stripe. I believe in a lean government but also give strong support to social security, national disaster relief, the defense of the country and a free education for all. I’d lik
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True Lies, Alternate Truth, Fake News And Diogenes
Feb 07, 2017
Donald Trump’s truth varies minute by minute. It’s like listening to Variations of a Theme of Paganini but less pleasant. Trump doesn’t seem to worry about these variations, which his critics call lies. Rather, he twists the truth, I suspect, to convince his subjects that one
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Trump Lost In The Tulgey Wood While Republicans Gloat In The Trees
Feb 06, 2017
A good chunk of American voters are standing aghast as Donald Trump engages in a scorched earth presidency. While I live in a state of shock, I am convinced the Republicans are enabling him for two reasons. First, they want him responsible for the final axing of programs like Obama
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Phyllis Schlafly Lives
Feb 03, 2017
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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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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