Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Human Rights — More Progress Than We think
Aug 05, 2019
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Recently, I wrote a blog that expressed a belief the nation would rebound from its current nationalist contraction and emerge as a more inclusive society. (Click) During the interim, the danger is that we lose faith in our nation and its institutions. My hope for the future may
Continue Reading →Barbara Ehrenreich, I Don’t Believe You
Aug 02, 2019
I don’t know whether Barbara Ehrenreich is entirely sincere in her new book, Natural Causes. Gabriel Winant thinks she is and argues the author’s intent is to “refute the idea that it’s possible to control the course and shape of one’s biology or emotional life…”
Continue Reading →A True Believer
Aug 01, 2019
In True Believer, Eri Hoffer writes this about cataclysmic times and the wisdom of stepping outside a rising tide. When conditions are not ripe, the potential leader, no matter how gifted, and his holy cause, no matter how potent, remain without a following… There is a period of w
Continue Reading →Silence Of The Demagogues
Jul 31, 2019
I admit it. The older I get the more stupid I become. It has nothing to do with an aging brain and everything to do with having experienced enough to know life is complex. Designed to interlock right down to the mud of matter, the quantum level, if one part of the universe shive
Continue Reading →Food And The Roulette Of Life
Jul 30, 2019
I’m always of two minds when I write about diet and health. I don’t want people to feel guilty if they are ill. But I’d like to give them hope if I can. Some diseases, like diabetes, can be reversed or prevented with a change in eating habits. That’s why I am willing
Continue Reading →The New Lexicon Of Sex
Jul 29, 2019
No, it’s not nostalgia. Life was simpler in the good old days. Sex for example. When I was growing up, people were either heterosexual or homosexual. Then male homosexuals and female homosexuals had a falling out and we had three divides: heterosexual, gay and lesbian. I had
Continue Reading →Questions Worth Considering
Jul 26, 2019
On the corner of my large writing desk, I’m collecting a stack of articles written by women about what it means to be a woman. One day, I hope to write a feminist manifesto based upon these essays. I say a manifesto and not the manifesto,” because my intent is to open possib
Continue Reading →Failure To Plan For The Future Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Come
Jul 25, 2019
A few weeks ago, my mother turned 102. After the celebration, she kissed my cheek and said, “You are a good daughter.” I always feel guilty when she says that because I’d promised myself, years ago if she lived long enough to need round the clock care, I’d refuse to allow
Continue Reading →Where Are You, Dracula, When I Need You?
Jul 24, 2019
Movies were central to my life as a child. For ten cents, I could hit the Saturday cartoon matinée and for two hours escape my poverty. Sunday afternoons, mom paid fifty-cents for two tickets to the grown-up flicks. After that, we had a cheap dinner, probably Chinese, and went ho
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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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