Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Winning Without War
Nov 04, 2013
0 Comment
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 →
The Winds Of Fear
Oct 29, 2013
In my blog of 9/In 17/13, I wrote about the latest research on why people are drawn to conspiracy theories. Interestingly, a new book on the subject is just out, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory by Jesse Walker. It recounts some of the best imagined plots in the hist
Continue Reading →
A Peek Into The Future That Didn’t Quite Turn Out Right
Oct 28, 2013
When I was in elementary school, a stack of newspapers used to appear in the classroom every Thursday afternoon. The publication was called American Scholastic. I hated those Thursdays as we were required to read and discuss several of the articles it contained. At 11 years of age, I
Continue Reading →
Full Speedo Ahead?
Oct 24, 2013
As I read books like Lean In and contemplate what roles women should play on the world stage, I am discouraged to learn that for every step forward, women are also taking a step backward. Take, for example, the reversal of fortune for women in Australia. After ousting Julia Gillard as
Continue Reading →The Medium And The Massage
Oct 23, 2013
When Marshall McLuhan published his best seller, The Medium is the Massage in 1964, he turned our understanding of the communications media on its head. What he wrote then seems obvious today: that each medium, telegraph, radio, television for example, produces a different effect on i
Continue Reading →
A Hearty Thanks To My Readers
Oct 22, 2013
Human ingenuity never fails to amaze and amuse me. If there’s a buck to be made, someone will discover how. I’ve written many times about all the “entrepreneurs” who stand ready to help a writer part with his or her money. Most of the services offered are ineffective or writer
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.