Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
On International Women’s Day
Mar 16, 2023
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The 1972 film, The Candidate starred Robert Redford as a neophyte California politician running for the U. S. Senate. Scripted in documentary format, viewers get an up-close look at the twists, turns, and disappointments of running for public office. Fortunately, Redford’s character
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All Ye Need To Know
Mar 09, 2023
Retired scientist Ronald Mallett continues to work on the possibility of time travel. Like Albert Einstein, he believes time and space are interconnected. That’s why he is tinkering with technology that will allow him to bend time as if it were in a black hole. Despite this seem
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The Human Stain
Mar 02, 2023
Cancer’s plasticity, meaning its cells can change from one form or function to another, gives the disease its endurance and makes it difficult to cure. Big tech has the same plasticity, morphing to address new conditions. Big tech isn’t a disease, of course, but it does have a d
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The Story Of Wicked
Feb 23, 2023
We know how it feels…to be a non-being, confined in a cage..to always be known by the name of our father, brother or husband, and have no identity of our own. This lament from an Afghan girl could be chiseled on the gravestones of most women throughout human history. Female oppr
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One True Thing About Democracy
Feb 16, 2023
Many artists have recorded the song “You’ve Got to be Taught” from the musical South Pacific. Barbara Streisand is among them. It’s a song about hate. Actor John Kerr in the original film version explains. ”It happens after you’re born.” The philosopher John Locke would
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Sexual Apartheid
Feb 09, 2023
I’d been a teacher in the classroom for little more than a year when I came to a crossroads, either I should strike for teacher’s rights or cross a picket line. My impulse was to ignore the strike on behalf of my students, but when a senior teacher heard my decision, he shook hi
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Thoughts on Human Silos
Feb 02, 2023
Are writers soon to be replaced by Artificial intelligence (AI)? A reader sent me an article that raised the question. Its genesis came from a story about a man who wrote a children’s book using AI. Once released, reports of the publication raised hoopla in the writing community.
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Feminine Manefesto
Jan 26, 2023
Checking the headlines, my eyes fell upon an article about President Joe Biden’s delight in ghostbuster burgers. Ghostbusters are toxic towers of meat, cheese, red onion, pickles, and sauce. While some wonder if Biden is too old for a second presidential term, a better question
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Perchance To Dream # 16
Jan 19, 2023
The would-be author asked me how to publish her book. I should have replied, do you know your market? Instead, I gave her the name of someone who might help. Why point to the pitfalls ahead? The woman had completed a book. She deserved kudos instead of advice. I wasn’t the one
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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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