Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
What The Duchess Of Windsor Taught Us About Jewels
Oct 11, 2016
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I don’t wear much jewelry, costume or otherwise. When I was in public life, I bought a few nice pieces, mostly turquoise, which I picked up during my visits to Arizona. At the time I started collecting, the stone was semi-precious. Now, with dwindling quantities, it’s become
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The Price Of War — Let The Nation Consider
Oct 10, 2016
When a new president takes over the White House in 2017 not much will have changed except the occupant. The world will be the old world still. Russia, China and North Korea will continue to flex their nuclear muscles and, I suspect, Palestinians and Israelis will continue to speak w
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Mean Spirited Recruiter For the 19th Amendment
Oct 07, 2016
Women may owe a debt to Donald Trump. He’s done more to energize our sex in this election than the simple fact that for the first time in our history, we have a woman at the top of a major political party’s ticket. The last time women were so energized was after Anita Hill
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Rumination On The Deplorables
Oct 06, 2016
I wish Hillary hadn’t said it. Calling a person “deplorable” doesn’t invite discussion. True, deplorable people exist, but that’s the point. They exist. The question is how to deal with them. Making them feel like pariahs exacerbates the problem because they feel l
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Jack Be Nimble About Your Money
Oct 04, 2016
In October a change goes into effect concerning money market mutual funds. From an earlier blog (9/9/16), you may remember mutual funds are counted as runnable debt, accounts not insured by the FDIC but are part of a bank’s debt obligations. To shore up a bank’s ability to wit
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Deaf, Dumb And Blind
Oct 03, 2016
Mark Cuban, billionaire NBA team owner, came out strong for Donald Trump, calling him “probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.” (“A Billionaire Changes his Mind,” by Ira Boudway, Bloomberg Businessweek, Sept. 19-25, 2016, pg. 35.) What attracted
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The Siren Call Of Discontent
Sep 29, 2016
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that Phyllis Schiafly died, founder of the Stop ERA movement and later the Eagle Forum, an institution dedicated to keeping women in the home. She was a firebrand who seldom stayed at home, herself, but opened every public forum by thanking her husban
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Cyber Crimes And Misdemeansors
Sep 27, 2016
Being swatted no longer conjures the image of a rolled up newspaper and a fly. It refers to people who open their front doors to find a swat team in full gear. Swatting is the latest form of cyber bullying after Gamegate (Bog 12/9/14), harassment originally aimed at “uppity” f
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To Debate Or Not To Debate, That Is The Question
Sep 26, 2016
I took up fencing as my sport in college. Over time I learned to be quick, meaning my movements were subtle enough to fool my opponent. While I performed well with fencers who were at or above my skill level, I fared miserably among those of few skills, those who imaged a sword wa
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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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