Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
No Grounds For Complacency
Jul 24, 2015
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Some women in the United States believe equal rights for women is an accomplished fact. In other parts of the world, it’s clear the issue has never been addressed. Women continue to be targets of war and rape remains a common act of terror. In Argentina, tens of thousands of w
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If Women Ruled The Tech World
Jul 22, 2015
Listen up all young women who think feminism went out with the dinosaurs. Discrimination against females in the workplace is alive and well. So says Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In. Never mind that Ellen Pao, former partner with venture capitalist firm, Kleine
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Banking On Discrimination
Jul 20, 2015
We have a social club in my town where the rich and powerful gather to make decisions for the public without the public’s knowledge or consent. It sits, like an exclamation point, at the end of a long, leafy park block near the center of town — white pillars and red brick
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Jul 17, 2015
One function technology has yet to mimic is the brain’s ability to see color. Yes, machines can identify wave lengths associated with color, like 400 nanometers for violet and 590 for red, but the optical illusion the human brain creates to interpret the environment can’t be r
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A Perfect Life
Jul 14, 2015
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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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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