Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Keystone Pipeline — Pipe Dream?
Jul 10, 2019
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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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Padding Retirement In Small Increments
Jul 03, 2019
Sometimes financial advice sounds like science fiction. Saving for retirement with IRAs and 401(K) plans aren’t going to make anyone rich. The market is too choppy. What’s more, since the 2008 debacle, employees are saving less and dipping into their retirement accounts more t
Continue Reading →The Meat Paradox: How We Can Eat The Animals We Love
Jul 02, 2019
Cognitive dissonance is a term psychologists use to explain how the human mind protects itself from its inherent contradictions. Smokers deny a link between cancer and cigarettes so they can go on smoking, for example. (Blogs 3/17/16, 3/17/16) We all behave the same way. We’re h
Continue Reading →Chats, Libraries, Conventions: How A Writer Makes Friends
Jul 01, 2019
As an author, I get several invitations a month from my publisher to participate in library and book conventions. They all come with a price tag, some of them reasonable and some of them out of this world. None of my previous publishers presented me with this “opportunity,” so
Continue Reading →Half A Double Date
Jun 28, 2019
(Introducing guest blogger, Sydney Stevens a history writer who also publishes a daily blog about life in a small community. I hope my readers might enjoy a change of pace and meet a wonderful blogger. www.sydneyofoysterville.com) Yesterday my husband and I went with good friends on
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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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