Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Lesson About Food Stamps
Apr 30, 2013
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I have a friend who’s savvy on many subjects and I’m grateful to know him. But we don’t always see eye to eye. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth and is to be admired for what he’s accomplished. But I’m also sure what he calls being raised po
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The New Hemisphere of the Blogosphere
Apr 29, 2013
I thought writing a blog was straight forward. I’ve been around the blogosphere for over three years writing 5 days a week (M-F), bouncing ideas off the thoughts of other writers. I presumed I knew my way around the territory pretty well. But Andrew Sullivan has given me a twist tha
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Taking Aim at Gun Violence
Apr 26, 2013
Perhaps, in our public debate about guns, we should talk less about “control” and more about “management.” If we thought about gun violence as a health issue, the way we do about cigarettes and alcohol, we might find we can agree upon a treatment. Certainly caring for victims
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Rape Versus Legitimate Rape
Apr 25, 2013
A teenage girl killed herself, recently, after being gang raped at a party and her pictures broadcast across the internet. (“Rape Culture Claims Another Victim, by Andrea Peterson, ThinkProgress, 4/9/13 ) The Canadian authorities were unable to pursue the case because the girl, asha
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Life on the Rubber Chicken Circuit
Apr 24, 2013
Today’s blog is personal, anecdotal and a classic example of why a writer needs a sense of humor. Yesterday I was a guest speaker at a local service club. My topic was, “Changes in the Publishing Industry.” About 25 people attended. The free lunch was a plate of “rubber” c
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360 Degrees of Integration
Apr 23, 2013
In the children’s story, Chicken Little, Henny-Penny runs around saying the sky was falling. There’s a similar cry in “Unrivaled,” an essay by Stanley Bing. In it, he lists comments by pundits, past and present, who predicted that the sky was falling for American dominance on
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Stating A Preference
Apr 22, 2013
I received a review on Trompe l’Oeil recently from a blogger who has a good following. Mainly, she liked the book, giving it a score of 4 out of 5, which is nothing to sneeze at. But she was not as happy with this novel as she was with Gothic Spring, the first of my works she review
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If the Rich Don’t Think Like Us, They Should Start
Apr 19, 2013
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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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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