Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
I Think That I Shall Never See A Tree In Court
Sep 23, 2016
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Under the law corporations are people, right? That ruling, by the way, wasn’t the outcome of Citizen’s United. It appeared in the 1886 case of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. While the Supreme Court didn’t settle the railroad case on the question of personhoo
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The News Media: Bread And Circus In A Time Of Crisis
Sep 22, 2016
A column by Leonard Pitts appeared in the Miami Herald recently entitled, “The End of Objective Truth.” (The Week, September 9, 2016, pg. 12.) His point was that falsehoods repeated over and over again gain an emotional credence that has “wrecked the idea of objective, k
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Why I Like My Stockbroker Better Than A Mutual Fund
Sep 21, 2016
Warren Buffett, the second richest man in America, says if he dies before his wife, she should invest her money in Vanguard’s Index Mutual Funds. That’s a conservative investment that isn’t likely to go far wrong but is it advice for everyone? A danger exists in being to
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While I was Sleeping Either I Or The World Fell On its Head
Sep 20, 2016
Sometimes I feel like a bat, viewing the world while hanging upside down. Let’s begin with the small absurdities: that some universities are allowing African-American students to re-segregate, allowing them to choose all black housing so they can avoid, “insensitive remarks.”
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The Great Sexual Divide
Sep 19, 2016
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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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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