Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Don’t Poke The Dragon
Mar 22, 2019
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Cultural differences can have humorous consequences. Others may be surprising. Still others depict differences that are endearing, as does the video on same-sex marriage I encountered one cultural difference I never forgot was while traveling by train somewhere in east Africa. A
Continue Reading →Blind Ego; Willful Ignorance
Mar 21, 2019
Was it madness or was there method in it? That is a question political historians far into the future will ponder as they assess the conduct of America’s 45th President. Several months ago, I raised the potential for his madness on a local talk show, comparing Donald Trump’s p
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Rumination On A Double Chin
Mar 20, 2019
The new series for Just Read It, begins May 1. That’s the 10 minute YouTube program where I discuss New York Times Best Sellers with local writers. To give the program a facelift, I’ve been working with two new cameramen, three cameras and bold lighting. The improvements are
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Fantasy And Reality In High Fashion — When Worlds Collide
Mar 19, 2019
Sometimes the difference between fantasy and reality is the difference between a Gucci designed duvet and a lumpy mattress. The cosmetics can be eye-popping but it won’t result in a good night’s sleep. Sitting down to thumb through the latest edition of Town & Country, I o
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Welcome To My Bizarre World
Mar 18, 2019
During my conversation with a book editor, recently, she mentioned that, as yet, she’d had no morning coffee and didn’t feel up to facing our bizarre world. I felt sympathetic. The only reason I was awake at that hour was to accommodate a fire inspection scheduled for my apart
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Grappling With The Media And Public Opinion
Mar 15, 2019
The media seems to have ignored Judge Clarence Thomas’s comments during a recent libel case before the Supreme Court. He referred to a 1964 landmark decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, saying he thought it should be overturned. That ruling made it difficult for public offi
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Ruminations On The Pursuit Of Happiness AS An Economic System
Mar 14, 2019
A Facebook friend sent me a video in which a pop star proposed we create a new organization to “take back our government.” My reply, I’m afraid, was jaded. We don’t need another political organization to which we can write checks. We’re up to our ears in those, the A
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Your Truth. My Truth. Our Truth?
Mar 13, 2019
“When it’s impossible to distinguish facts from fraud, actual facts lose their power.” So writes Zeynep Tufekci in his insightful article about identifying falsehood in the media. (“Don’t Trust, Verify: Finding the Facts in A World of Fakes,” Wired, March 2019, pgs. 18
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Surviving The 45th President
Mar 12, 2019
I know what it’s like to slam my finger in a car door. The pain is intense. Yet, at the same time, I curse myself for being stupid. That’s how I feel whenever I watch the 45TH American president on television. I suffer when he lies; I curse the embarrassment we’ve heaped u
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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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