Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Media Is The Message
Sep 05, 2016
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If you believe Donald Trump intended to incite someone from the NRA to shoot Hillary Clinton in his off the cuff comment recently, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you. Whatever the man’s flaws, he isn’t stupid enough to publicly engage in a conspiracy to commit mu
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A Significant Moment In Time
Sep 01, 2016
What is it going to take to convince voters that a woman can lead this nation? I’ve heard complaints about Hillary Clinton’s character, unfounded suspicions that have survived the scrutiny of a hostile Congress for the last 40 years. I doubt many voters could undergo such sc
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Schizophrenia And Life In The Cities
Aug 31, 2016
I’m certain I’ve recorded this story in an earlier blog, but it bears repeating. Several years ago, two of my neighbors suffered from schizophrenia. They were bright and highly educated women. One was a poet and the other an oil painter. Though extraordinarily talented, both
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Cell Phone Novels
Aug 26, 2016
When Prerna Gupta decided to take a year off to write fiction with her husband, the couple experimented by crafting stories for cell phone apps. Though the pieces were short, no more than a 5 minute read, only 15% of viewers finished them. That’s when the pair decided to experimen
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Women’s Progress — Real Or Illusion?
Aug 25, 2016
While having lunch with a former student the other day, I reminisced about my childhood. Mine was far from ideal, being raised in Los Angeles in the 1940s and subjected to racial prejudice because my mother was a Latina. Nonetheless, as I approach the 80th decade of my life, I
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A Time To Remember
Aug 24, 2016
Like many people, this election year has left me confused. Strong man Donald Trump changes his mind the way the rest of us change our socks, but he has been consistent in his view that America is weak. (“The Strongman Trump Wanted,” Excerpted from The Washington Post, July 20, 2
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What Men Want And Women Want In Underwear
Aug 23, 2016
For proof positive that men and women don’t think alike, consider the way each buys underwear. A woman would think twice before buying a bra over the internet unless she knows the product. From cup size, to the underwire, to the straps that dig into your flesh, there are too man
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The Good, Bad and The Ugly Of Technology
Aug 22, 2016
Passing from the popular scene without much fanfare is the VCR. Japan’s Funai Electronics has announced it will stop making the machines because it has difficulty finding parts and because sales are on a sharp decline. In its heyday, Funai sold up to 1.5 million units annually.
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Feminism: Back To The Future
Aug 19, 2016
When she accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton admitted she had every intention of playing the woman’s card during the campaign. That’s code for saying women’s interests in health, safety and child development would be front and center i
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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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