Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
If the Rich Don’t Think Like Us, They Should Start
Apr 19, 2013
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I keep thinking about Scott Fitzgerald and his remark that the rich don’t think like the rest of us. Unfortunately neither do their sycophants. Geoff Colvin wrote a column in Fortune recently that portrays the Occupy Wall Street movement as a collection of air heads who don’t know
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Politics by the Numbers
Apr 18, 2013
Recently, I read an interview with the Lieutenant Governor for California, Gavin Newsom. He was commenting on the importance of technology to foster two-way communication between the government and its citizens. According to him,” Technology, more than anything else, democratizes vo
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Forget Cup Size. Think Density
Apr 17, 2013
Frankly, I’m tired of thinking about breasts. I’m tired of looking them, too. Women have breasts as do some men. Preteen girls want them. Older women live in fear of their annual mammogram. In between, women have surgery to increase or decrease their cup size or they buy wired or
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What’s Left and Right About Revolution
Apr 16, 2013
T. M. Luhrmann traces a surprising line of political evolution. It stems from the hippy movement of the 1960s to the conservative wing of the Republican party today. (“Blinded by the Right?” by T. M. Luhrmann, Harpers, 4/13 pps. 39-44) Flower children, he contends, were rebels wit
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The Right Stuff or Stuffiness?
Apr 15, 2013
Having taught English a number of years, I suppose I’m expected to be a little stuffy about language, and I confess I am. So I have to remind myself constantly that language changes almost at the speed of light. The editor of Harper’s could use a little reminding, too. In a recent
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Rich Man, Poor Man
Apr 12, 2013
When I was in my senior year of high school, I was looking for a summer job, hoping to put away a little money for college. I’d worked the previous summer in a hospital kitchen, preparing food trays for patients. This time, I wanted something more glamorous, something that didn’t
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A Simple Discovery
Apr 11, 2013
A couple of weeks ago, March 29, to be exact, I wrote about citizen libraries, little facilities no bigger than a bread box where one can leave or take a book to read, courtesy of a neighbor. The blue box in my area got run down the other day, but someone set it up again and though it
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The Least Among Us
Apr 10, 2013
What I learned while serving in public office is that no system is more unjust than the criminal justice system. One of the most neglected classes of people on the planet aren’t those living impoverished lives in third world countries, but men coming out of prison after having compl
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Let Them Eat Twinkies
Apr 09, 2013
A friend looked a little shocked the other day when I told him I didn’t read the local newspaper and never watched the local news. He asked how I managed to stay informed. I replied that the best way to become uninformed was to rely on local media. Local news has shrunk to covering
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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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