Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Great Bette Midler Speaks About Failure
Apr 17, 2015
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I came across a comment by the singer, Bette Midler, recently which caught my eye. The caption was “Ignore the Critics.” (“Voices,” More Magazine, April 2015, pg. 51.) Surprised that the glorious Bette gave any thought to critics, I stopped to read what she had to say.
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No Need To See You In Court
Apr 14, 2015
Edward Snowden’s leak about NSA data collection has raised a question for Americans to consider: “In a technological world how do we defend our right to privacy?” But Sarah Ellison’s article, “The Man Who Kept The Secret,” raises a more pertinent one. “Are we fools to
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What’s In A Word?
Apr 10, 2015
I came across another example of the way our government parses words to obscure rather than clarify meaning. In the past, readers may recall I had an exchange with a former staff member for Under Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who served in the George W. Bush administration.
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Bikini Versus Burka
Apr 09, 2015
On Tuesday, I quoted the comment of a Muslim woman who felt western commercial interests had enslaved women, convincing them to use their bodies to sell products. “And they are made to believe that this is freedom.” (Blog 4/7/15) Certainly, there is more than a grain of truth
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Two Halves That Made A Hole
Apr 08, 2015
The cliché is that “fact is stranger than fiction.” It isn’t, of course. Fiction is unbounded by place, time, space and the laws of physics. Yet when truth presses against the limits of reality, the effect can seem larger than fiction, overturning what we think we know. M
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Writing Posthumously
Apr 06, 2015
Last Friday, I wrote about the importance of solitude in an artist’s life. Today, I’m following up with a similar theme based on a review of H. J. Jackson’s, Those Who Write for Immortality. (”Immortal Beloved,” by William Giraldi, The New Republic, March 2015, p
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At The Close Of Women’s History Month
Mar 31, 2015
Though it was a belated recognition, Rosalind Franklin is acknowledged to have determined the overall B-form of the DNA helix (Wikipedia) for which Francis Crick and James Watson were awarded the Nobel Prize. Men taking credit for women’s ideas isn’t new. But a new book by M
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A Crude Gamble
Mar 30, 2015
Several years ago, I bought an oil stock that ended up a gusher and pumped up my portfolio nicely. Later, I sold it at its peak which made me and the IRS happy. Since that time, the company has lost value because there’s an oil glut around the world. In fact, the United Stat
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Technology: Humans On a Stick/Virtual Family Visits
Mar 27, 2015
Not long ago, a reader sent me an article from The New York Times, “Among the Disrupted,” by Leon Wieseltier. He was writing about the many ways technology invades our culture, calling the effect a tyranny of technology. (Click) Below are two examples of recent advances. I
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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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