Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Labiaplasty And Female Liberation
May 03, 2016
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Labiaplasty may be one of the saddest words I’ve ever heard and only just learned. It refers to plastic surgery performed to alter the folds surrounding the female vulvae with the intent of giving them a clam-like appearance. In the case of a birth deformity, the procedure has i
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Data Dumps, The Media And The Myth Of Transparency
May 02, 2016
Data dumps aren’t the sole province of whistle blowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. In the name of transparency, our government unloads reams of data on a regular basis, so much so, that the search for specific information is like a forced to march though the dessert i
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Encryption And Human Nature
Apr 29, 2016
Encryption, which makes our electronic communications secure, is only as good as three things: human nature, human nature, and human nature. After Edward Snowden leaked information about government surveillance on our citizenry, Congress amended the USA Freedom Act to end NSA’s
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Fracking Needn’t Be A dirty Word
Apr 28, 2016
Fracking is a dirty word in my circle of friends and I admit, I am as eager as they are to see this country decouple from fossil fuels. But when Hillary Clinton was criticized for taking money from the fracking industry, a donation amounting to less than 1% of total contributions,
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Strategy For Networking
Apr 27, 2016
Strategy, strategy, strategy. To reach our goals we need to have one or several. Unfortunately, planning is a lesson we don’t learn early. The young have little sense of time. They live in the moment like the hedonistic cricket in Aesop’s fable. The ant’s wisdom usuall
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Communication Skills And The American Narrative
Apr 26, 2016
A poet in China complains her country has weaker communications skills than Americans and therefore is less able to promote its core values. Students in China, she says, are taught by rote rather than encouraged to use creativity and imagination. (“Shall We Teach Creativity?”
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Guilt, Shame And Redemption
Apr 25, 2016
Guilt and shame seem to describe the same human condition. Both reactions arise from having done something wrong. According to the experts, however, the two are different. Guilt is a response to a specific action, an event external to an individual. Stealing a cookie from a shop
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Immortality And The Writer
Apr 22, 2016
Thoughts of immortality enter most people’s minds before they cross the final threshold. Presidents think of their legacy. Actors imagine their hand prints cemented into a square on Hollywood Boulevard, and no tyrant ever failed to strike a heroic pose for a statue. On the que
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Surveillance As Judge And Jury
Apr 20, 2016
Surveillance tools are everywhere. Another device is coming soon to a store near you: software that identifies individual faces in a crowd. Walk through Macy’s one afternoon and you may hear a message telling you your favorite cologne is on sale. And those greeters with their
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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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