Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Far Too Old To Give Up
Jul 19, 2016
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A recent edition of AARP magazine featured three Hollywood stars who are disrupting the perception that as women age, they become invisible. Unlike the Brits who cherish older actresses like Maggie Smith, Judy Dench and Helen Mirron, Americans are slow to embrace the notion of cha
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When Women Collide, Synergism Happens
Jul 18, 2016
I had an enjoyable lunch the other day with Jane Vogel, President of Age & Gender Equity in the Arts, (AGE) an organization dedicated to challenging stereotypes about aging and gender in the arts and theater in particular. The group awarded $30,000 this year to organizations tha
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Psychology, Science And Truth
Jul 15, 2016
The debate goes on about whether or not psychology and other branches of social sciences are true sciences. Can their research be subjected to rigorous  methods and the data verified by other researchers? The argument, pro and con, gathered intensity, recently, over the theory of â
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Pogo Keeps Getting It Right: The Enemy Is Us
Jul 13, 2016
If you were cast away on a deserted island with only one choice for a companion, who would you chose? The thief, the murderer or someone morally righteous? I’d chose either the thief or the murderer. The thief would have nothing to steal and the murderer would have already
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The Supreme Court: Another Blow For Women’s Rights
Jul 12, 2016
Women and society as a whole had a great day recently, when the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that regulated  abortion clinics so stringently, the rules would have run them out of business. (Blog 6/30/15) Texas insisted the regulation was intended to protect women’s heal
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Bio-Electronics May Be The Answer To Drugs, Pain and Cost
Jul 08, 2016
We’ve all heard the commercials promoting prescription drugs. Take a pill to reduce a headache but the side effect could cause a heart attack. Not only is the pharmaceutical approach to illness, risky, but the cost of the drugs can be astronomical. One company, Glaxo-Smith-Kline
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Food Boards, Gag Laws and Mayonnaise
Jul 07, 2016
Who knew there are 14 food boards, presumably regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that receive a billion dollars in taxpayer money to promote agri-business? Who knew these funds were used to stifle negative information about the quality of food products? Agricultural ga
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Don’t Cry For Us, Venezuela: New Experiments With Wealth Distribution
Jul 06, 2016
More than once, I’ve shared concerns that technology is reducing the number of jobs in our society and allowing money to pool in the hands of billionaires who use it to make decisions  better left to the community.  My solution is to disrupt the money pool and allow it to flow to
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Alzheimer’s: Some News But More Mystery
Jul 05, 2016
The latest research on Alzheimer’s hasn’t pulled back many veils about the disease but it has uncovered a few puzzling facts. For example, some people who have the neuron-killing tangles associated with the illness, never display symptoms. Others aren’t so lucky. To explain
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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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