Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Polemic
Jan 20, 2017
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“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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Mark Zuckerberg Had A Dream And We’re Drowning In It
Jan 12, 2017
Recently, a woman on Facebook admitted she received most of her news from social media. If true, she is making a couple of mistakes. First, she is foreclosing on ideas outside her narrow group of like-minded friends. Second, she’s vulnerable to fake news, much of it propagan
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Hail To The Chief
Jan 11, 2017
Writer Rick Perlstein draws some frightening comparisons between Richard Nixon and Donald trump, but concludes that of the two, Nixon, because he was an introspective man, set limits on his immorality. (He’s Making a List,” by Rick Perlstein, New Republic, Jan/Fe, 2017 pgs. 18-1
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The Wrong Of Doing Right And The People Who Think They can Judge
Jan 10, 2017
Yasmin Nair, in “Rights Make Might,” gives us a damning picture of Hillary Clinton, the woman who almost became the 45th U. S. president. (Baffler, Winter 16, No. 33, pgs. 37- 48.) One complaint the author levels is Hillary’s support for her husband’s welfare reforms during
Continue Reading →Unemloyment Becomes A Disability in America
Jan 09, 2017
When the housing bubble broke, taking with it the entire US economy, a number of people who thought they were middle class discovered they were poor. Worse, they also discovered the safety net was so porous that many of them ended up with no job, no health insurance and a rapidly dw
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Park West — Gypsies Of Art And The High Seas
Jan 06, 2017
My art collecting began with a student’s question. “I have to copy a painter’s style. Who would you chose?” “Van Gogh,” I said, little knowing that when finished, the piece would come to me. It has been on my wall for 40 years. The moment I hung it opposite a sun
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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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