Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Mark Zuckerberg Had A Dream And We’re Drowning In It
Jan 12, 2017
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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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The Hunger Game
Jan 05, 2017
I opened the January issue of Wired hoping to learn what magical algorithms were on the horizon for the coming year. What I found was a publication stuffed with science fiction. The editor explained, “to get a greater sense of reality,” he’d turned to stories. (“The Power
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Leadership’s Morality Factor
Jan 04, 2017
As researchers probe into the secrets of our brains, we learn more about the characteristics of leadership. Surprisingly, being smart isn’t high on the list Good character tends to produce better workers and better leaders. Does a person feel bad about a transgression, for
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Part II – Ms Magazine
Jan 03, 2017
Continuing remarks from Monday’s January 2, 2017 blog. (Drawing the Red Line edition. “Not Going Back,” by Gaylynn Burroughs, Ms. Magazine pgs. 20-25.) Other woman’s programs to be affected. Women’s Programs Title IX – The Obama administration used Title IX to hold
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The Evil Of Unexamined Good Intentions
Jan 02, 2017
You can’t make America great again if you intend to suppress the freedoms of women, who are half the population. Last night I watched vice-president elect, Mike Pence, vow to remove birth control subsidies for women under the Obama care act. Why, he questioned, should people w
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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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