Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Terminator Cometh
Apr 08, 2013
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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
Continue Reading →Symbolism Matters
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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Words To Live By
Apr 01, 2013
Today, I’m going to reverse myself a bit about the value of women’s magazines. No, I still don’t want to read another article on how to organize my closet or kitchen. I don’t want to be reminded of how to spot ovarian or breast cancer or more advice on how to diet successfully
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Library Week — Bread Box or Bird House?
Mar 29, 2013
There’s a battered blue mail box, shaped like a bread container, that leans precariously on a post on a busy street not far from my home. For a number of years, I never knew its purpose. One day a friend told me it was a citizen’s lending library — a place where folks leave
Continue Reading →Senator Elizabeth Warren — A Bubble of Hope
Mar 28, 2013
James C. Scott, a Yale political science professor, has just published, Two Cheers for Anarchism. In it, he invites readers to consider the possibility that the greatest gains for human freedom have come not from the orderly exercise of democracy but from the “disorderly unpredictab
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Liar or Truth Teller?
Mar 27, 2013
Last month, my mother celebrated her 97th birthday. As a special treat, an acquaintance, the proprietor of a restaurant, offered to prepare a special meal in honor of the event. I thought it would be a wonderful treat, but as they say, no good deed goes unpunished. When the proprietor
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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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