Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Myth of Equal Opportunity
Mar 13, 2013
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Having spent the earlier part of my life as a teacher, I admit that I and, I suspect, teachers like me, are leery of each new theory intended to save public education. What makes good schools? The answer is simple. Good teachers. The other piece of the puzzle is good parenting. Studen
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New Sales Strategies for an Old or New Book
Mar 12, 2013
An acquaintance of mine recently published her first book. She’s going through the marketing phase, promoting her novel in bookstores and doing a talk show when she can. As one who has used these methods, I doubt she will generate enough sales to make Amazon take notice and certainl
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Allan Sloan’s 3 Commandments For Investors
Mar 11, 2013
Allan Sloan, as I’ve mentioned, is one of my favorite financial columnists. He’s funny, he’s clear and he majors in common sense. His latest column in Fortune reminds investors of the three rules they should follow to avoid losing great sums of money in the stock market. They ar
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Women’s Liberation: Revolution or Evolution?
Mar 08, 2013
Recently, my public television station did a documentary on The Women’s Liberation Movement and having been one of those gals, it was a treat to relive history. Some of the clips left me wanting to stand up and shout, “Right on!” Nice to know the old juices can still flow. Nonet
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I Love You, I Love You Not
Mar 07, 2013
Richard Cohen in The Washington Post offered a short rant on the cheapening of the word love in our culture. We have become a nation of phonies. We love everyone. We don’t merely like them or respect them or hold them in some esteem. We love them.” (“Viewpoint,” by Richard Coh
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A New Understanding of Urban Blight
Mar 06, 2013
Yesterday was one of those days I could have erased from the calendar and been happy. Everything and anything mechanical, from my computer, to my telephone, even my toaster, went wrong. What’s more, I lost a tooth filling and kept getting calls that were wrong numbers. Just an ordin
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Thoughts on the Tenth Anniversary of the Iraq War
Mar 05, 2013
Recently, I remembered that we’d passed the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war. I was reminded by an open letter that appeared in Harper’s magazine, written by Andrew J. Bacevich to, Paul Wolfowitz, one of the war’s chief architects. (“A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz” by Andrew J.
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Surviving the Rocky Times
Mar 04, 2013
I presume many people have a bucket list of accomplishments they’d like to achieve before parting from this life. I have 4 items on mine, all related to writing and I work toward attaining them every day. If I do succeed with any one of them, I hope I have the wit to find other goal
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The World Where Russians Rule
Mar 01, 2013
I picked up another book bargain at the Dollar Store a while ago, this time a novel by Tom Rob Smith who made the New York Times Best Seller List for an earlier work, Child 44. Smith graduated from Cambridge University in 2001 and, apparently, has enjoyed a brilliant success at an ear
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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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