Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Money In A Time Of Panic
Mar 27, 2020
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A friend emailed me recently. She wanted to increase her contribution to her IRA but her broker didn’t return her calls. What should she do? Well, since the market had dropped 2,000 points that day, I suggested she send him a box of chocolates. Of course, no one should try t
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Life In A Time Of the Coronavirus
Mar 25, 2020
With everyone’s eyes glued to statistics about the coronavirus, our attention to other upheavals falls by the wayside. Three prominent men accused of sexual crimes against women are facing the consequences. Woody Allen lost his book deal. Prince Andrew faces a criminal investigati
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Silence Of The Lamb
Mar 23, 2020
The matter was small, yet I was annoyed by it. Even a little despairing. After fifty years of fighting for women’s equality, what did I have to show for it? Or others of my sex who had faced jail time and forced feedings to champion women’s rights? That afternoon, as I visited m
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It’s The Little Things That Bug Me
Mar 20, 2020
Rudyard Kipling’s poem IF is a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson, a Victorian war hero who led the failed Jameson Raid against the Transvaal Republic. I know this history because in the 1960s I taught at Jameson High School in Zimbabwe. The school was named in the man’s honor
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The Short Circuit Court
Mar 18, 2020
Because the U. S. Supreme Court has a 5-4 divide between conservative and progressive jurists, the country is holding its breath as the highest court prepares to weigh in on the abortion issue. Whatever they decide, the ruling is likely to send a shock wave across the country. Their d
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We Love Her Now She’s Gone
Mar 16, 2020
On Monday, March 5, Katie Porter, Democratic congresswoman from California, disagreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Speaker had earlier commented that because a candidate was a woman it was no reason to vote for her. Porter disagreed and so do I. All things being equal, wo
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Shortening My Bucket List
Mar 13, 2020
As it’s Friday the 13th, I might as well consult my bucket list and think about something pleasant. One dream I’ve had for some time is to spend a couple of weeks at a luxury spa. Paying more to eat smaller food portions might seem foolish, but I like the idea of pampering, the
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A U. S. Woman President Is Possible
Mar 11, 2020
As news outlets reported the final count in the South Caroline primary, I wrote on my Facebook page, “not a single woman,” suggesting neither Elizabeth Warren or Amy Klobuchar *would survive after Super Tuesday. Certainly, they picked up no delegates in South Carolina, putting a
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A Devil’s Bargain
Mar 09, 2020
When I headed a teacher’s union, I was part of a coalition of other labor groups that negotiated wages and working conditions with the public school system. That was in the 1970s, at a time when the U. S. economy had slowed. Unable to make a case for wage increases, union represen
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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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