Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Great Sexual Divide
Sep 19, 2016
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Sometime ago, I wrote about a few local, female politicians who picketed an “old boys’ club” in my community — a place of privilege where political agendas were set without a public process. To put an end to this exclusivity, the women decided to shine a light on what
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Clinton’s Charitable Foundation: The Real Story
Sep 16, 2016
In politics, people want access to their elected officials but when they get it, others are tempted to wonder what goes on behind closed doors. As a former public servant, I am aware of the opportunity for distrust. When I served, everyone wanted to see me, it seemed. If they
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Star Wars On A Subhuman Plane
Sep 15, 2016
“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose but queerer than we can suppose.” So observed J. B. S. Haldane, a scientist and popularizer of science who died in the 1960s. Thinking about existence, I can imagine no statement more accurate than Haldane’s. Not only are h
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Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman
Sep 14, 2016
In October 1965, Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States, held a press conference on the White House lawn to assure the public he was fully recovered from gall bladder surgery. I was glad to hear it, but watched, stupefied, as he lifted his shirt to show his scar to the me
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Waiting For Love With Lancome And Chanel
Sep 13, 2016
When I was 29, I realized I had to make a decision. Almost everyone around me was married. Was I to sail into my 30s an old maid or pick one of the two suitors available, neither of whom interested me? Despite her failed marriage, my mother wanted me to settle. She liked the you
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Maybe It’s A Woman Thing
Sep 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton has been charged by her critics with so many crimes, so many bad decisions and so many shady associations that after 40 years of intense investigations by hostile prosecutors, it’s a wonder she’s allowed to wear pants suits instead of sackcloth and ashes. The lat
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Return Of Glass-Steagall Shouldn’t Let People Sleep Well At Night
Sep 09, 2016
While making calls for Hillary Clinton recently, I encountered a man who complained that when president Bill Clinton signed the measure repealing the Glass Steagall Act, he created conditions that made the Great Recession of 2007-2008 possible. Because of it, the man refused to supp
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Banking On Proust And Plato
Sep 07, 2016
When I graduated from Reed, I applied for a job in San Francisco. I needed work that paid well because I was saving for my boat passage to England to join my fiancé. My first interview was with a company, the name of which I have forgotten, but I remember the interview was br
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What’s Best For A writer? The Hurly-Burly of Life Or A Quiet Sanctuary?
Sep 06, 2016
Who would have thought the life of former President Hamilton would make good theatre, or that T. S. Elliot’s reference to cats in, “The Waste Land” would inspire a Broadway musical? Certainly, I’d have scoffed at either project had they been suggested to me. That both thea
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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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