Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Our Duty To Ourselves
Jul 31, 2025
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Christmas Eve in 2024, I was walking home after a delightful brunch with friends. The iron-grey sky promised either rain or snow flurries, so I hunched forward, cutting through the chill air like the boat’s bow, determined to avoid a downturn in the weather. Ahead of me, a man st
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With Malice For Some
Jul 24, 2025
If I were a social scientist studying human behavior, I’d want to understand why wealth tends to bestow status on people. Wealth has its uses, true. But it has limitations, also. Being lost in the desert, would a lump of gold quench my thirst, heal my blistered feet, or provide a
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Truth Or Consequences
Jul 17, 2025
Not long ago, a friend on Facebook posted a false comment. I responded with a Snopes link that refuted the statement. The friend shot back, “I don’t fact-check other people’s comments if I agree with them.” O-k-a-y. Good to know, I thought. That was a MAGA sentiment if ever I
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Not A Time To Sit And Stare
Jul 10, 2025
Former Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter observed that “democracy cannot survive too much ignorance.” (FFRF, June/July 2025, pg. 17.) He’s right. Uniformed voters returned a failed former president to the Oval Office in the last election, thinking that change for the sake
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The Cavalry Is Us!
Jul 03, 2025
A drizzle, more like a fog, dampened the pavement where I stood holding my “Stop Trump” sign. Minutes later, the drizzle became a downpour. Fortunately, I was prepared for a change, having buttoned my raincoat to its lapels and covered my sign with heavy plastic. Drivers had
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Never Ask, “What’s In A Word.”
Jun 26, 2025
A young worker came to replace a light plug in my apartment the other day. I’d complained about the switch before, but he’d never found the trouble. This time, it sparked in his hands like a firecracker. “See,” I laughed, amused by his startled expression. “I wasn’t
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The Power Of One
Jun 19, 2025
A woman in her mid-50s, whom I’d known for two decades, recently dropped me from her Facebook circle. Once an advocate for women’s rights, she acquired a boyfriend, and not long after, I noted changes in the tenor of her remarks. Each time she defended MAGA values, I countered
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If Not Now, Matriarchy Will Come
Jun 12, 2025
The anthropologist Margaret Mead spent her life studying humans and came up with observations that go unchallenged today. One of them is, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has. But, like the
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Sacred Values Or Survival
May 29, 2025
Last week, my blog was about finding our better angels in the worst of times, a term Abraham Lincoln coined in his first inaugural address. I am familiar with my darker ones, anger, impatience, and vanity among them. Less aggressive are the purer spirits. Sometimes, when I’ve
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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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