Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Salivating For The EPI Life
Feb 17, 2016
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Like the Marsh Hare from Alice In Wonderland, Extremely Important People (EPI) are wringing their hands and fretting. “There’s nothing to buy. There’s nothing to buy.” That’s because large scale luxury providers have “sanded down” their merchandise and shifted thei
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I Forgive You, Gloria Steinem
Feb 16, 2016
When I served in local politics, I, and some of my predecessors, worked hard to shut down a local nursing home in the eastern corner of the county. It was rickety and posed health hazards for the residents, but it had an antebellum grandeur and its patients, who had lived there ma
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China: Waiting For The Hiccup
Feb 10, 2016
As I wrote in a recent blog, one of the big worries in the US stock market is the fallen price of oil. (Blog 1/16/16) The second worry is China, our trading partner. When that nation hiccups, investors here pay attention. At the moment the country poses a two-pronged worry. Firs
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A Truth To Remember
Feb 09, 2016
As the 2016 presidential campaign shifts into high gear, my Facebook page has become a minefield of political rhetoric. People are choosing sides and a few are strident. Nonetheless, at a time when opinions appear to be pulling the country apart, Ronald Inglehart, professor of Pol
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We’re Doomed
Feb 08, 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI): Will it bring in the best or the worst of times? That is the question futurists, philosopher, techies and scientists are debating. Recently, Stephen Hawking chipped in with his opinion: we are doomed. Certainly, robotics is turning our economy on
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Crafty Isabel Allende
Feb 05, 2016
Isabel Allende has many fans, though I’m not among them. Nonetheless, I did stop to scan a short article she’d written for AARP Magazine. (“Beads, Books and Bijoux,” by Isabel Allende, AARP, Dec 2015/Jan 2016, pgs. 60-61.) In it, she reveals that creating jewelry enhances he
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A Novelist Comes Uncorked
Feb 03, 2016
Unlike chocolate, I can’t say I’ve never met a wine I didn’t like. A few exist. That said, I only imbibe when I’m out to dinner with friends, and more specifically, with a couple who have more vintages aging in their cellar than there are stars in the sky. What’s more, t
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The Artist Can’t Be Trusted
Feb 01, 2016
I’m going to tell a story on myself in the hope of making a point. Last week I went to pick up a new pair of glasses. Twice I went back to the store to have the frames adjusted. On each occasion, I was assisted by the same clerk. Neither adjustment worked. When the young man
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A Little Peace At The Table
Jan 29, 2016
I came across an amusing essay by Katie Roiphe, recently, in which she advised the hostess of a dinner party to include single people in the mix. (“Odd One In,” by Katie Roiphe, Town&Country, Feb. 2016, pg. 82,86.) Couples, she insists, “rarely engage in electrifying tal
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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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