Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Life’s Journey — It’s All About Time
Jul 16, 2019
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Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, is changing the toy’s image. Today, instead of the anorexic model of the past, she’s manufactured in different body shapes and varying skin colors. Also added to the line is Barbie’s Inspiring Women, likenesses of accomplished w
Continue Reading →I Am An Immigrant And I Love America
Jul 15, 2019
Keeping democracy healthy, despite tribal instincts and where change is the constant, isn’t easy. Witness the number of democracies that have died in recent years. (Click) “Justice for all” isn’t a part of the human genome. Nor will you find it in any slave agreement or
Continue Reading →On Bee-ing
Jul 12, 2019
Someone on Facebook posted a clip about a woman who’d found an injured bee and decided to take care of it. In return for her kindness, the creature responded with a trust near to affection. This cross-species communication opened the woman to a new perspective on life. (Click)
Continue Reading →Wanted: A Cure For The Cost Of Medical Treatments
Jul 11, 2019
GlaxoSmithKline has a cure for the “bubble boy” affliction, an ailment that attacks people’s immune systems. The price tag? $634,000. (Ibid, pg. 22.) Spark Therapeutics, Inc. has a gene therapy to cure a rare form of childhood blindness. What is the value of gaining one’
Continue Reading →Keystone Pipeline — Pipe Dream?
Jul 10, 2019
When President Barrack Obama rejected the application for the Keystone XL TransCanada pipeline, he had more on his mind than the environment. The project made no economic sense. According to the U. S. Department of State, bringing heavy oil sands across our border, among the mos
Continue Reading →Financial Map For The Bumpy Road Ahead
Jul 09, 2019
I sat down to coffee in the retirement lounge, recently, needing a time out. My head was spinning from my conversation with my stockbroker. Exasperated, I said to the woman next to me, “How can I leave my money in the hands of someone who approves of Donald Trump?” The woman,
Continue Reading →Corporate Welfare — A Bad Idea Any Way You look At It
Jul 08, 2019
While heading my teachers’ union in the 1970s, I was appointed to the Mayor’s Economic Advisory Council. I had no background in economic development but I satisfied a necessary profile to round out the committee. I was a woman and I was a union leader. I soon learned my role
Continue Reading →Beauty And The Best
Jul 05, 2019
We’ve often been told that appearance is linked to success: first impressions stick and they affect how we’re treated. Women tend to take these admonitions seriously. After all, so much of their place in history has been the consequence of their looks. Promise a woman a “f
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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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