Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
No Idle Questions
Sep 09, 2014
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I’ve often wondered why our form of democracy is so difficult to transplant in Africa and the Middle East. One reason might be because of our diversity. We began as a nation of differing cultures rather than a homogenous one. To get along we had to build a tent large enough to
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It’s A No Brainer
Sep 08, 2014
When we read about the high wages earned by CEOs of corporations the justification is always the same. Those high salaries are necessary to attract and keep good management. But doesn’t the same logic apply to workers? Aren’t good wages and good benefits part of keeping empl
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Genius And Insanity
Sep 05, 2014
Several years ago, I read a medical expert’s analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses. He concluded that the book exhibited not genius but the workings of a diseased mind. If the doctor’s theory had been treated seriously, a number of literary critics and scholars who claim to
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Beasts Of The Fields
Sep 04, 2014
While the world rejoices in Pope Francis’ vow to return the Church to its mission of mercy for the poor and the weak, writer Mary Gordon points out he continues to keep American nuns in the critical spotlight for doing just that instead of taking a stand against abortion, homosexual
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When Profit Shouldn’t Be King
Sep 03, 2014
When I graduated from college my first job interviewer looked at me askance. “What can you do with a philosophy degree?” he asked. “Think,” I replied. I didn’t get the job but never regretted my liberal arts education. As William Deresiewicz wrote in a recent ess
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Back To The Future
Sep 02, 2014
Recently, I deplored the way Twitter symbols had infiltrated our language. (Blog 8/26/14) But I was an innocent. I’d no idea how emojis, those little symbols used to clarify an electronic messages, had exploded into a complete language seen not only on social networks but
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America The Beautiful
Sep 01, 2014
The face of the migrant worker is no longer solely that of the Latino or the undereducated. It’s the face of the elderly who were caught in the tsunami of the 2008-09 Great Recession. They are school teachers, white collar executives, or couples with nest eggs that were demoli
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No Apology Necessary
Aug 29, 2014
Recently, two-term Congresswoman, Renee Ellmers of North Carolina gave a speech on the topic of how to bring more women into the Republican Party. Her comments, however, were directed toward her male counterparts: Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level… Many o
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The Invasion Of The Inversion
Aug 28, 2014
Recently, I wrote that if corporations are people, they need to be better Americans. (blog 8/15/14) They need to pay their taxes, for example. Allan Sloan’s new article in Fortune explains one way some companies are shirking their duty. (“Positively Un-American,” by Allan
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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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