Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
No Parking
Feb 24, 2016
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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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Salivating For The EPI Life
Feb 17, 2016
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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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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