Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Thoughts On The Trump Bull… Market
Jan 17, 2019
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Trump has always been a president untroubled by his contradictions. When the stock market is up, he takes his bow center stage. When it’s down, he blames Jerome Powell, his appointment as Chair of the Federal Reserve Board. Conventional wisdom discounts either position. “…
Continue Reading →The Heart Has A Lonely Hunger
Jan 16, 2019
A friend I hadn’t seen for almost a year dropped by for tea the other day. As the leaves steeped in the pot, she folded her hands in front of her. “I’ve decided to get a dog.” The quizzical look in her eyes made the statement seem more like a question. “Should I?”
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There Is No Them And Us
Jan 14, 2019
With the Democrats in control of the U. S. House, President Donald Trump seems to be reviving his base with fiery rhetoric. We all know who members of that base are — Woebegone innocents of earlier days, a time when, if corn prices flourished, so did the nation. As a kid, my f
Continue Reading →Science, Social Science And Jelly
Jan 11, 2019
Wherever there are humans, there is a pecking order. In the field of research, the dividing line lies between science and social science. Hard science works with data that can be measured and the results verified by others. Social sciences can sometimes seem a little more like j
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Crypto Money — Virtual Or Real?
Jan 10, 2019
Living in the real world and the virtual one may be more than my simple mind can handle. My fear gets worse when I realize the virtual world is split in two — between the worldwide web and the dark web. Add to that bifurcation, my need to remember there are two kinds of mo
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More Secrets Than Victoria Imagined
Jan 09, 2019
Daniela Karnuts, a fashion designer with Safiyaa in the U. K. observes “A woman is never attractive if she is not comfortable in her skin.” (The Modest Moment,” by Paula Knight, Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec. 17, 2018, pg. 69.) Karnuts is not talking about real skin, of course
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When Free Is Less Than A Good Price
Jan 08, 2019
Over the holidays, a couple introduced me to their son who was visiting from Boston. As he was a young man, I asked what he did for a living. He said he was a medical researcher and was working on a drug for multiple sclerosis. A lump hardened in my throat as I remembered a br
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Donald Trump Isn’t A Typical Politician. Happily This Isn’t a Typical Country
Jan 07, 2019
Donald Trump doesn’t reason like a typical politician and has no fiscal discipline, says David Hoppe, Paul Ryan’s former chief of staff. (“Hey, Paul Ryan, What’s Up?” by Anna Edgerton, Bloomberg Businessweek, Dec. 17, 2018, pg. 40.) Hoppe blames Trump for a looming finan
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Facebook Owns Us
Jan 04, 2019
The title of this blog says it all. On Facebook, our data doesn’t belong to us. Ditto our “authorial rights” according to information scientist, Amelia Acker at the University of Texas at Austin. (“Preservations Acts,” by Nora Caplan-Bricker Harper’s Magazine, Dec.
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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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