Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Big Questions About The Nano World
Apr 23, 2015
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Reading the news each morning takes raw courage. “If it bleeds, it leads,” is the media’s mantra. Disaster draws eyeballs and that means an uptick in readership numbers which can attract advertisers. Even though I understand the motive, I wonder if the media ever contemp
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Silent Language
Apr 22, 2015
Recently, an acquaintance approached me for advice on how to proceed with a book he wanted to write. The subject was non-fiction and on a topic I knew little about, but I agreed to meet him for coffee and listen to his ideas. He’d researched his subject and had so many thoughts,
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Those Darned Lost Emails
Apr 21, 2015
Everyone’s attention is locked on to Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. But what about Edward Susterich’s enquiry concerning the emails of Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin? Walker claims God advises him on the major decisions in his life, so Susterich decided to get to
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Another Inconvenient Truth
Apr 20, 2015
In a recent blog, I quoted a Muslim woman who expressed her shock at the immodest use of a woman’s body in western advertising. (Blog 4/9/15) She considered such women as slaves, doing the bidding of corporations. I disagreed and offered a brief rebuttal, but I should have wai
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The Great Bette Midler Speaks About Failure
Apr 17, 2015
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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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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