Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Return Of The King?
May 15, 2025
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After solving my computer problem over the telephone, my hardware guru and I paused for a chat. Not a fan of Donald Trump, he said he couldn’t wait until the 2026 election. Though I shared his impatience, I admitted I wasn’t sure there would be another election. His reply shot acr
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Life Among The Ruins
May 08, 2025
During my interview with Willy Vlautin, for Just Read It, the writer said he couldn’t understand why working-class people imagined the rich would act in their interests. It’s a question I’ve also considered in my blogs. Pecking orders exist in Nature, so it seems natural for
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Gone Fishing
May 01, 2025
May 2025 marks two important anniversaries. This blog, Write Away, began May 19, 2010. We’ve been around for 15 years. Thank you readers for your loyalty and support. Just Read It, our YouTube book talk show first aired May 27, 2014, making this month its 10th anniversar
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It Isn’t The Economy, Stupid!
Apr 24, 2025
“Are we there yet?” A child too long confined to a car will often ask this question. Who would have guessed that as Donald Trump bends the rule of law, drawing the country near to a Constitutional crisis, we can hear a similar query on the lips of people in the streets? “Are
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To Do Nothing Is To Be Nothing
Apr 17, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), a U. S. Republican House member from Georgia is a believer. She believes in Donald Trump. She believes in MAGA’s anger. She believes in Q-Anon conspiracy theories, one of which holds that Donald Trump is secretly fighting an international cabal of
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To Be Or Not To Be
Apr 10, 2025
When Senator Cory Booker announced he would filibuster to protest Donald Trump’s policies, a woman on Facebook wondered if his actions would have an impact. She was trawling for opinions, not data, as the filibuster had yet to occur. At best, any reply would have to be grounded
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Stop The Insanity
Apr 03, 2025
What follows below is a test. Read the italicized statements and identify the speaker. Is it Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamie Dimon, or Steve Bannon? *You have to break the mindset that stock buybacks are fine, that crony capitalism is fine, and that tax breaks for
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Choosing Sides
Mar 27, 2025
A conversation on my Facebook page focused on whether or not liberals should make a greater effort to listen to MAGA concerns. Most of the contributors felt that listening is always good, and so do I. But I also feel that listening should be reciprocal. Senator Chuck Schummer (D) li
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My World And Welcome To It
Mar 20, 2025
I met Noam Chomsky in graduate school. I say “met” metaphorically. His work was required reading for my degree. He had an idea that language was natural to the human brain, then went about proving it with linguistics–an almost mathematical formulation of how languages
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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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