Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Focus Hasn’t Changed
Mar 02, 2016
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Not long ago, I wrote a blog ruminating on why young women no longer heed the call for equality. (Blog 2/16/16) A day later, I received an interesting response from a reader. What politically active young women focus on today, she wrote, isn’t about women’s equality but about
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A Lustrous Life
Mar 01, 2016
Last night, after a grueling day that left me feeling as lively as an amputated foot, I slumped into a cushioned chair in the lounge of the retirement center, a cup of coffee in my hand. The clock on the wall said 4:47 p.m., a time when a number of residents cluster in the area, w
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Oprah Winfrey Gives A Leap Year Lesson
Feb 29, 2016
I’ve never been one who enjoyed meetings. I hated staff committees when I was a teacher. When I was in politics, my assistants complained we never had enough time to hammer out strategy. Now that I’m in the retirement center, I avoid meetings with the passion of one threaten
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Robin Hood’s Heart Of Darkness
Feb 26, 2016
Being either a psychopath or a narcissist is rapidly falling out of favor as a mental illness among psychiatrists. The afflictions, if they are afflictions, are far too common. (See blogs 1/18/13 and 6/16/14.) Psychopaths, for example, thrive as CEO of corporations, politicians an
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The Alchemy of Waste
Feb 25, 2016
Milk is not good for us. Meat is not good for us. Cigarettes are not good for us. Sugar is not good for us. Still, like a huge ship in a storm tossed sea, getting human nature to change its course, isn’t easy. In evolution, it may take thousands of years. The question is, do we huma
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No Parking
Feb 24, 2016
Ask a member of the Millennial generation to chose between owning a smart phone or a car and, hand’s down, the majority will choose the smart phone. All a person can do with a car is drive, but a smart phone brings the world to your fingertips. At least that’s the view writer
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Confronting The Unpredictable
Feb 23, 2016
Monday, I walked into the restaurant at my retirement center and ordered a croissant with my lunch. The new girl behind the counter said a croissant didn’t come with the meal. I’d have to pay extra. When she held out her hand for $2.00, I asked if there’d been a change in policy
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While We Were Sleeping
Feb 19, 2016
Not too long ago the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the 15 year-old Safe Harbor Agreement between the European Union and the United States. The decision didn’t make the headlines because it’s a subject that makes a person’s eyes glaze over. Put simply, the c
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A Question Of Safety
Feb 18, 2016
After World War II, Winston Churchill expressed hope for a united Europe, where movement between borders would be free and where any European in any corner of that society could say, “Here I feel at home.” (“The War for Europe,” by Henry Porter, Vanity Fair, February 2016, p
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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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