Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Drilling With Tax Money
Nov 12, 2013
0 Comment
A friend who lives in South Africa sent me a clipping from her Cape Town newspaper. The article complained about the growing bureaucracy in that country and called for reform. That bureaucratic bloat was beginning to show its ugly head there came as no surprise to me. Bloat is a natur
Continue Reading →
Death by Bolero
Nov 11, 2013
In an earlier blog (10/4/13), I wrote that I’d come home from the neighborhood library box with the work of Gabriel García Marquez, The General In His Labyrinth. The book is a fictional account of the last days of Simón Bolívar, the man who liberated Latin America from Spanish ru
Continue Reading →
The Roads That Lead To Rome
Nov 08, 2013
If the Catholic Church has its way, the argument over women’s reproductive rights will be won not in the courts but through business acumen. How? By quietly taking over medical facilities, nursing homes, and insurance plans. According to Stephanie Mencimer, writing for Mother Jones,
Continue Reading →
The Rise Of The Investor-State
Nov 07, 2013
A new word in the English language has recently been coined: investor-state. The term refers to corporations who have the power to sue nations before an jurisdictional tribunal for infringements on their commercial interest. Phillip Morris, for example, has sued Australia over that co
Continue Reading →
Passing Inspection
Nov 06, 2013
My November Vanity Fair came in the mail today and I have to say vanity is the operative word. This edition reads like a gossip column. It’s lead article is, “The 2013 New Establishment: Who’s Up, Who’s Down and Who’s Roadkill,” — to which I’d have liked to add,
Continue Reading →
Winning Without War
Nov 04, 2013
Marin Alsop is one of the few women to break the glass ceiling as a music conductor. After a period of controversy, she was chosen to lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and she silenced her critics with a show of leadership, feminine style. (“She Shattered a Classic Glass Ceiling
Continue Reading →
Can Women Have It All? It’s A Silly Question
Nov 01, 2013
Debora Spar, president of Barnard College has written a book about women having it all, fresh on the heels of Sheryl Sandberg’s, Lean In. It’s called, Wonder Women, Sex, Power and the Quest for Perfection. Like Sandberg’s work, Spar confesses we women can’t have it all. We mus
Continue Reading →
Are We In Need Of An Intervention?
Oct 31, 2013
The English are worried about us. They fear we are addicted to guns. Henry Porter, writing for The Observer, notes that “If another country were killing its own people at such rates, the U. S would demand an intervention.” (“American needs an intervention,” by Henry Porter, Th
Continue Reading →
That Are The Odds?
Oct 30, 2013
While in public life, I opposed “sin taxes.” Sin taxes are the fees governments collects on alcohol sales, gambling enterprises and state lotteries. In my view, government shouldn’t be in the business of promoting addictions even if part of the pot is set aside for treatment pro
Continue Reading →
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
To access and subscribe to my videos on YouTube, Click Here and click the Subscribe button.