Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Perfect Life
Jul 14, 2015
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Many years ago, I ran an art gallery, part time. I knew I’d never make enough to live off the profits, if there were any, but I wanted to open a venue for local artists who were talented but didn’t have an “in” with established galleries. For 5 years, I launched gifted
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Building A Better Fortress
Jul 13, 2015
No matter where a feminist goes, men seem to be ahead of her. In the early days of the movement, I recall driving to California from Oregon and stopping at a road side café, one of those places with red vinyl booths and a sign as you entered that said, “Please seat yourself.”
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Living Light
Jul 08, 2015
At the retirement center, there is a “lightly used” shop where the prices can’t be beat. For a song, a buyer can find anything from a couch to a hat. Profits from the shop help residents who have fallen upon hard times, mainly because they’ve outlived their assets. The ca
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Thinking Makes It So
Jul 07, 2015
When I revealed in an earlier blog that, prior to the election of George W. Bush, I’d been a registered Republican, readers admitted they were surprised. We live in a complex world, I replied, and I’m not averse either to profits or the stock market. (Blog 5/19/15) Not to pu
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The Homecoming
Jul 06, 2015
Another of our western allies has given Edward Snowden an award, honoring him as a whistleblower of courage. This time he’s been given the Bjornson Prize for freedom of expression from the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression. (Click) The accolades he’s
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Fashion Musings Of An Infidel
Jul 03, 2015
A short while ago, Samantha Elauf won a religious discrimination case against clothier Abercrombie & Fitch. A Muslim woman, she argued she was denied employment because her religion requires her to wear a headscarf, a look the company felt was contrary to their fashion image.
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The Sun…The Sun
Jul 02, 2015
A man, while digging in a basement in Calgary, Canada found a fish fossil he thought was unusual, so he sent it off to some experts. When they reported he’d found evidence of a 60-million-year-old species, he refused to believe it. As a Creationist, he knew the world was only
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Consorting With The Aristocrats
Jul 01, 2015
I became a stock investor by accident. An acquaintance moved into the CEO position of a small, public company. As I’d worked with the man on a few projects and knew his banking acumen, I decided to buy a few shares. When the stock rose appreciably, I sold some and bought into an
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How To Survive The College Road Trip
Jun 30, 2015
I’ve written endlessly about the burden of college tuition for students. (Blog 6/16/15) I’ll say it once more. The cost of higher education is an outrage. We’re a nation blighting the future of our country by impoverishing our young. What I hadn’t considered until
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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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