Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Hunger Game
Jan 05, 2017
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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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The Right To Read – A Freedom Neglected or taken for Granted
Dec 29, 2016
If I were allowed to interview the President-elect, I wouldn’t ask Donald Trump about his ties with Russia, or his misogynist views of women or whether or not actor Tom Arnold’s claim that the man is a racist is true. (Click) I’d ask him what he was reading. Apparently, he
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The Firehose Isn’t Just For Putting Out Fires
Dec 26, 2016
A firehose isn’t the province of firefighters anymore. A firehose is the gush of information people provide via the internet, particularly on social media like Twitter and Facebook. Twitter makes a bonanza by selling access to its firehose to interested companies. Recent repor
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Draining The Swamp
Dec 20, 2016
Recently, I described how the National Rifle Association (NRA) influences gun control laws by funneling campaign contributions to friendly legislators. (Blog 12/13/2016) Naturally, when our president-elect made a campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” I hoped he meant he’d dis
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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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