Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Overwhelming Questions And A Simple Answer
Jun 07, 2016
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As technology shrinks our world, rubbing differing cultures together with the force of colliding tectonic plates, human beings are facing an overwhelming question: Is it better “to give wide freedoms to differing subcultures to live as they wish, or to assert a universal standard of
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Word Processing: Who Knew Its Fascinating History?
Jun 06, 2016
I sometimes marvel at the subjects some authors choose to explore. Take, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew Kirschbaum. (“Word Perfect,” by Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, June 2016, pgs. 71-73.) How large, I wonder, is the audience that
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Ballet Noir press release May 30, 2106
Jun 03, 2016
PRUnderground Press Release – May 30, 2016 – Full release here Fourth Novel From Caroline Miller: Death, Intrigue… Ballet Noir Industry: Book Publishing Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official an
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Dating Via The Internet Becoming Too Specialized
Jun 03, 2016
Several years ago, I had a male acquaintance who, depressed after his divorce, joined a dating service on the internet. He enrolled in more than one, in fact, as they were free. Once he’d signed up, images of blonde babes lit up his cell phone, so many, that when we met for coffee
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Crony Capitalism No Longer The Big Wolf At The Door
Jun 02, 2016
Suggesting that crony capitalism is in decline in this country may be an unpopular argument in our election cycle. Those bent upon reforming a corrupt system first have to believe it exists, and after 2008 and the housing bubble, it’s hard to dispute. Except the financial collap
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Money Matters: Crisis Of Trust In Our Rainbow Nation
Jun 01, 2016
We Americans aren’t the only people on the continent who are fed up with gridlock and corruption. Throughout Latin America, citizens are throwing out old regimes: Guatemala, Honduras, Argentina and most recently, Brazil. Unfortunately, the populists champions who ride into power,
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Hillary Clinton: Not Living In Anyone’s Shadow
May 31, 2016
After my blog of May 19, 2016 in support of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, a reader sent me a column by Gail Collins that appeared in the New York Times. (Click) The gist of her remarks were a warning to the presumptive Democratic candidate that she avoid wrapping her i
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Flowers, Panhandlers And Prostitute
May 30, 2016
Flowers and other plants would seem to be a part of nature. But not so, if it’s a petunia called Candy Bouquet and sold in garden shops. This flower, magenta and yellow, was bred in Germany by growers who manipulated the pollen to create a new color combination. Is the new desig
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Money Lost Down The Rat Hole Of Good Intentions
May 27, 2016
Money, like water, is fluid and not always controlled. In Brazil, for example, the corporate tax rate is 34%, among the highest in the world. One would hope so much money would flow to the public’s benefit. Instead, it has been lost down a rat hole of corruption, leaving
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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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