Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Brief History of Truth
Feb 15, 2022
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Someone on my Facebook page replied to one of my blogs about atheism. He said because the world exists, someone had to have made it, which means there is a god. I replied if cause and effect governed the universe that would be true. But quantum theory challenges cause and effect as a
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The Worst And Best Of Times
Feb 10, 2022
Who doesn’t love Michael J. Fox the scallywag actor from Back to the Future? As most of us know, he’s fighting a losing battle with Parkinson’s disease and gave up acting last year because the illness now impairs his speech. Even so, he remains active, writing books whil
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Fables That Shape Our Democracy
Feb 08, 2022
A columnist wrote recently that anti-vaxxers who fall victim to the Covid virus shouldn’t be admitted to hospitals. Facing death, he said, was too late to embrace medical science. His statement contains an “either/or” proposition. Either a person takes the vaccine or forgoes t
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Life Is No Poem
Feb 03, 2022
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” lists the attributes of a rational human being. Paramount is to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… That’s a tall order these days. Robert Reich, famed economist and liberal commentator, lost his head recently. Furious
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The Fig Leaf Of Civility
Feb 01, 2022
Many fairytales are quest stories in which the hero must accomplish a task before he wins the princess’s hand. The Twelve Dancing Princesses is my favorite. Joe Manchin sent his Democratic colleagues on a quest to gain bi-partisan support for two voting rights bills he support
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On The Religion Of Unicorns
Jan 27, 2022
The article by Jaques Berlinerblau asked the question, ”Is there such a thing as a non-secular atheist?” I blinked. Do atheists come in flavors now? He went on to explain non-secular atheists are those who “embraced science as an alternative to faith” I blinked again. How ca
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Thoughts On The Admiring Bog
Jan 25, 2022
Lily Tomlin once said, “I always wanted to be someone, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” I know the feeling. Nearly ten years have passed since writer Susan Stoner and I began the book talk show, Just Read It. I had dreams of becoming the next Bill Moyers. How
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Paradise Lost?
Jan 20, 2022
“The rubicon (sic) has been crossed. The fire of revolution has been lit.” So wrote a representative of the white supremacist group the Proud Boys on Telegram, after the January 6, 2021 insurrection. (“Capitol Insurrection,…” by Cassie Miller and Hannah Gais, Southern Po
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The Problem With Jon Stewart
Jan 18, 2022
Former late-night talk show host, Jon Stewart stuck his foot in a puddle the other day and tried to retrieve it without getting his trousers wet. He said he was riffing with friends on his podcast, The Problem with Jon Stewart when he joked that the goblins at Gringotts’s Bank in th
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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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