Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Too Special To Grasp The Ordinary
Dec 19, 2014
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Despite the increased number of women on the Supreme Court and one black and one Latin jurist, there is a remarkable sameness in the backgrounds of the members. So writes, Dahlia Lithwick in a recent essay. (“Nine of a Kind,” by Dahlia Ltihwick, New Republic, Nov/Dec 2014, pgs.
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A Fetus Is A Fetus Is A Fetus
Dec 18, 2014
Some people may not know that Margaret Sanger, champion of a woman’s right to choose in the early 20th century, was opposed to abortion. She felt the procedure too much endangered the life of the woman so she promoted contraception instead. (“Women Before Fetuses” by Rebecca T
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The Glass Cliff
Dec 17, 2014
“It’s no surprise some cynical observers have concluded that the glass ceiling has been replaced by a ‘glass cliff.” So writes Alan Murray, managing Editor of Fortune Magazine, as he notes that in the corporate world, women have faced a ”hyper-Darwinian struggle” to reac
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Only Hardware
Dec 16, 2014
I wonder how long I can go on being amazed at the way our wealthiest citizens collect paintings without regard for whether or not the work and its price have any direct relationship. How valuable can a canvass covered with paint be? All things being relative, I admit an object
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The Well-Wrought Urn
Dec 15, 2014
I’ve long been a fan of writer, Edith Wharton, so when I came across a reprint of her essay, first published in March 1938, naturally I stopped to read it. In the course of her remarks, she made a number of observations, some of which were curious. What, for example, did she m
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Anatomy Of A Play — IX
Dec 12, 2014
The second round of auditions for my play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, came two weeks after the first. Though the director, Cassandra Schwanke, thought we had found our leading lady in the earlier audition, I wasn’t so sure. The woman she favored was too young. Somewhere, th
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Feminism And The Invisible Poor
Dec 11, 2014
What was touted as a debate, turned out to be a love-in as Judith Shulevitz and Rebecca Traister reviewed the gains and losses of the feminist movement. (We Are All Feminists Now,” by Judith Schulevitz and Rebecca Traister, New Republic, 9/28/14 pgs 14-23.) While the goal of total
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Evolution And The Bible
Dec 10, 2014
Recently, Pope Francis issued a statement which not only accepted science’s “Big Bang” theory on the origin of the universe but embraced Darwin’s theory of evolution as well. He concluded that neither of these suppositions contradicted the idea of divine intervention. On the c
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Gamegate: Another Glass Ceiling
Dec 09, 2014
A new frontier has come to light where women continue to face discrimination and it has a name: Gamegate. Like so much in the electronic age, games have largely been the province of males, both as consumers and designers. But lately a few women have entered the field and their p
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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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