Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Rich Man, Poor Man
Apr 12, 2013
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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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The Terminator Cometh
Apr 08, 2013
I don’t read much science fiction anymore and I don’t know why. I devoured the genre when I was young and, fortunately, with guidance from a librarian, managed to read most of the classics. Science fiction can show us the full possibilities of the good, the bad and the ugly in our
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Thoughts About Gilded Cages
Apr 05, 2013
I ran across an amusing definition of a tax haven the other day: We won’t steal your money, but we won’t make a fuss if you steal other people’s. (“A Tale of Two Londons” by Nicholas Shaxson, Vanity Fair, 4/13, pg. 105) The quote made me think about the degree to which peo
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Apr 04, 2013
During his bid for the presidency, Mitt Romney visited the mansion of John Schnatter, owner of Papa John’s International and used the opportunity to draw a comparison between Democrats and Republican. You know if a Democrat were here, he’d look round and say no one should live lik
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The Words of War
Apr 03, 2013
My blog of March 5, 2013 “Thoughts on the Tenth Anniversary of the Iraq War,” drew a response from someone who had worked on Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s policy staff at the time of 9/11. Currently the writer teaches a course at Oberlin College on historical and cultural factors
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Love It Or Leave It
Apr 02, 2013
How large should government be? That’s the question Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, asks as he lays out the traditional Republican argument for why he thinks the country is in economic free fall. Predictably, as a Republican who served in George W. Bush’s administ
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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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