Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Talk of Cabbages And Kings
Mar 11, 2019
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On March 11, 1483, Charles VIII (the l’Affable) became king of France. Only a handful of historians will remember the fact. Far worse, to my thinking, is that a smaller number will note I published my first blog, March 24, 2010. Even so, I feel chuffed about the 9 year accom
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About Our Economy: Figures Lie And Liars Figure
Mar 08, 2019
The man I succeeded in public office liked to say, “Figures lie and liars figure.” I won’t speak about liars but figures can be slippery. After 8 years of grappling with a county budget, I gained a healthy understanding that numbers have a plasticity. Many assumptions are bu
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Purloined Letters
Mar 07, 2019
My activities on the internet have expanded to a degree that I require 3 email addresses, not counting messaging on Facebook. Initially, I hoped different addresses would make storing my correspondence easier to find later. My experience has proved the opposite. Of course, I shoul
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The Unspeakable Pronoun
Mar 06, 2019
While I’ve been thrashing around for a transgender pronoun, it appears the transgenders have solved the problem. The preferred word is they. (Brain Nonbinary,” by Virginia Heffernan, Wired, March 2019, pgs. 11-13.) Writer Virginia Heffernan posits they is appropriate because i
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The Good Old Days
Mar 05, 2019
Sometimes, the good old days were just that: good. Doctors made home visits — a blessing when the weather was frightful and you had a temperature of 102. In the good old days, when the thermometer hit triple digits, a kid like me could grab shards from the back of an ice truck
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Becoming An Entrepreneur In the Technology Age
Mar 04, 2019
I admit it. Some mornings, I dedicate time to cursing my computer. Overnight, some dark magic has rendered my passwords useless or an old blog has risen from the grave to republish itself on Facebook. On those days, I call my guru. Usually, he’s good at sorting out the probl
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Estonia Has Our Back
Mar 01, 2019
In the 1950’s, during the height of the cold war, the United States had an active civil defense corps, volunteers young and old who protected the nation’s borders without a wall. As a teenager, I joined the air defense program. Twice a week, I drove to a hilltop in southern Ca
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Manners Or Morals?
Feb 28, 2019
Manners or morals? That’s the question Brits are struggling with as the argument about leaving the European Union comes to a boil. With the March 29 deadline for departure looming, many in England seem to have lost their cool. It’s damn the torpedoes, among upper crust and f
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Is Roe V. Wade On Death Row?
Feb 27, 2019
The future of Roe v. Wade, a woman’s right to an abortion, in most people’s minds, is hanging by a thread. A recent Supreme Court ruling on a Louisiana law, one that severely restricted abortion clinics, was decided on a 5-4 split. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the more libera
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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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