Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
GONE FISHING
Mar 24, 2016
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Today marks the 6th year anniversary of this Write Away Blog, Tomorrow begins year number 7 of sharing my thoughts, 5 days a week, with hundreds of readers from around the globe. Some of you have been with me almost from the beginning. I am humbled by your loyalty and am always
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Advertorials– Advertising Dressed Up As News
Mar 23, 2016
Advertorial is a new word in the journalist’s lexicon. Many of us read advertorials without realizing it, unless our eyes notice the tiny word sponsored at the corner of the computer screen or see, special section in a magazine. What the reader is looking at isn’t news but a
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Women In War And Peace
Mar 22, 2016
Abuses against women abound in the world, not only in times of war but as a condition of ordinary life. Pakistan’s bill to ban child marriages recently died because the Council of Islamic Ideology “declared the legislation un-Islamic.” (Excerpted from the Washington Post by
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Medical Treatments That Make Us Sick and What To Do About Them
Mar 21, 2016
Medical treatments can be both miraculous and a curse. We’ve all marveled at commercials where a drug’s side effects seem worse than the ailment. I had a graphic experience last week. My doctor proposed shooting dye up my arm as part of an examination. Unfortunately, the d
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Charitable Giving — Its Public And Private Face
Mar 18, 2016
In the past, making an anonymous contribution to charity was the norm, according to writers, Erick Konigsberg and Ben Ryder. Many one-per centers in their day, like John D. Rockefeller, contributed large amounts of cash to colleges and other public institutions with no fanfare.
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Originalism And The Millenials
Mar 17, 2016
Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice who died recently, labeled his brand of jurisprudence “originalism,” meaning he imagined he could go back hundreds of years and peer into the minds of our founding fathers as they drafted our Constitution. (Click) For Scalia to perform as mi
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National Security And The War On Terror
Mar 15, 2016
Kade Crockford, Director of Technology for Liberty with the ACLU points out Americans spend billions of dollars each year fighting the war on terror with failed systems. In the meantime, the only disagreement between the two political parties is about “how quickly we should disp
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The Brain’s Reality — Thinking Makes It So
Mar 11, 2016
Thinking makes it so. The brain’s ability to create its world is the subject of my novel Trompe l’Oeil and that of much scientific research. I might appear to be repeating myself unnecessarily by bringing the topic up again. Nonetheless, new studies are giving us a greater
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Women And Public Office
Mar 10, 2016
Though male legislators in state after state in America continue to write laws restricting a woman’s right to end a pregnancy, some of our sex continue to insist gender has no place when considering a candidate for public office. Can they really be so complacent? Inequality lies
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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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