Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Dirt Cheap Prescriptions Not Always Good For Patients
Nov 06, 2019
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Recently, I left my dental office with a generic drug prescription and paid less than $3 for it. Medicare paid the major portion, but I admit, I had reverse sticker shock. After the EpiPen scandal, where a generic drug that normally sold for $50 suddenly shot up to $300, I
Continue Reading →Women — Last In Line But Up To The Challenge
Nov 05, 2019
The easiest way to affect social change is to affect the flow of money. Talking about women’s rights and equal pay may get lip service from politicians and civil rights groups but it won’t move the pay needle a jot until Wall Street sees a reason to respond. Universal
Continue Reading →A Hymn To Fruitcake And Traditionally Built Women
Nov 04, 2019
I love sinking into a new book from Alexander McCall’s First Ladies’ Detective series. Set in East Arica’s Botswana, the area around which I lived for two years, I am well acquainted with the rhythms of life in that part of the sub-Saharan desert. Each new book is like a t
Continue Reading →Robot-Advisers Face Conflicts Of Interest
Nov 01, 2019
Turning your investment money over to a robot, with its almost infinite database, may lead you to believe the advice you receive is objective. (Blog 4/15/15) Why shouldn’t it be? Robots have no personal interest at stake. An added plus is no middle man fees. Banks
Continue Reading →Georgia O’Keefe: Who Controls The Narrative?
Oct 31, 2019
Georgia O’Keefe, “…laughed at the idea that anyone would care what she ate for breakfast, yet she understood that the mythology surrounding an artist’s practice was useful material.” (“Self-Made Woman,” by Rachel Syme, New Republic, July 2017, pg. 59.) Ernest
Continue Reading →Finding The Grailed
Oct 30, 2019
I’ve always loved high fashion. I consider it an art form, though you’d never guess to look at me. In my retirement years, I might pass for a bag lady. If I could, I’d wear pajamas all day. Dominique Browning, former head of House and Gardens, befor
Continue Reading →Hidden In Plain Sight
Oct 29, 2019
A few days ago, I left my hairdresser’s shop feeling happy. When a woman’s hair looks good, she feels good, too. Then I reached my car and discovered my keys were missing. Suddenly I felt as if I’d swallowed a live gerbil. Of course, my keys had to be near. I’d driven to the s
Continue Reading →Stranger Than Fiction
Oct 28, 2019
One of my favorite novels of all time is Patrick Süskind’s, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. The protagonist is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born to a woman who was a fishmonger in 1738. Having had 6 children, all still-born, she tries to abandon the 7th but is caught and hanged for
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New Beginning For Just Read It
Oct 25, 2019
The month of May marks a new beginning for Just Read it and for me. Just Read it is the 10 minute YouTube video program Susan Stoner and I have co-hosted over the last 4 years. During each show, a Portland, Oregon author joined us to discuss a book from the New York Times B
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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 four novels
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