Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Going Wild With A Kernel
Dec 19, 2016
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One of the advantages of being a troglodyte is a person has fewer worries than those who keep up with trends. For example, traveling by horse and buggy, like the Amish, means the price of gasoline is unimportant. I gain a similar advantage with my flip top cell phone. This dinos
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Peter Pan Alive And Well In Oklahoma
Dec 16, 2016
Regarding the 2016 presidential election, writer Clara Jeffery sums the results best: …a small electoral majority chose a candidate who openly embraced bigotry, who slurred war heroes and mocked the disabled, who bragged of sexual assault, who said he’d ro
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No Place In Hell
Dec 14, 2016
At 16, I knew everything. Had I been truly wise, I’d have dropped out of school and kept my good opinion of myself. As it stands, the older I get, the less I know. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, seems to share my state of bewilderment. (“From 9/11 to 11/9” by Gra
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ATF — Anything But A Farewell To Arms
Dec 13, 2016
I’ve admitted I grew up in a National Rifle Association (NRA) household. I’ve admitted I owned a gun for years, a Remington 22 which I used to bring home my share of competition medals. The NRA teaches gun safety and provides a multitude of services to its members, but like th
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A Palace For Less Than A King’s Ransom
Dec 12, 2016
More than once during my tenure as a politician, I voted to deed public property to private parties for $1.00. That is the minimum allowed by law to secure a financial transaction in my community. Much of the time, what was awarded was a corner lot, too small to build on, which
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Who’s Hacking Your Heart?
Dec 09, 2016
Hold on to your pacemaker. Latest news is they can be hacked. Worse news is that people are making stock bets on that vulnerability. Normally, security companies wouldn’t explore medical devices as an avenue for hacking. One supposes decoding their encryption wouldn’t take h
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Santa Shopping — Advice For the One-Percenters
Dec 08, 2016
For me, the most jaw dropping division in this wide and varied country of ours comes not from politics, religion or race but from the gap between those who have heaps of money and those who don’t. Life couldn’t be more stupefying than what passes for normal on the pages of magaz
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True Lies
Dec 07, 2016
Our president-elect has told so many lies to the public, his fibbing has taken on a transparency akin to truth-telling. What’s more, when his followers fail to notice his contradictions, they provide an example of cognitive dissonance working on a massive scale. Cognitive di
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Managing Disorder — Or Not
Dec 06, 2016
Like a person in a drunken stupor, I careen between bouts of messiness and sterile order. My physical work environment is becoming more and more sterile as I gain skills that allow me to file documents on my computer. The evolution poses a new problem, however. I sometimes get los
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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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