Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Cashless Society? No Thanks
Jan 24, 2019
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I don’t care what you think of me. I like money. I’m not talking about quantity. I’m talking about money as a form of payment. The financial industry is coaxing consumers to move to a cashless society. All I have to do is allow someone to stick a computer chip at the end o
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A Password Is A Passport To Your Life
Jan 23, 2019
Not long ago, a company where I’d done business for many years rejected the password to my account. Frustrated, I sent an email, asking if there was trouble on the site. There was none. They confirmed my password by return message. Frankly, I was stunned. I wasn’t aware t
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Passive And Active Investing
Jan 22, 2019
Recently, I sat down to tea with a longtime acquaintance. She wanted to talk about her broker. He’d earned money for her over the years, but she resented his fees each time she bought or sold a stock. She also wanted to reduce her taxes. To that end, she’d made an appointm
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Thoughts About Revolution, Reform, And Liberation
Jan 21, 2019
I opened my ACLUmagazine, recently, to read a young woman’s statement: “I realized that I didn’t want to work within the system anymore. I wanted to help reform it.” (Activists in Conservative Country,” by Tim Murphy, ACLUmagazine, Winter 2019, pg. .) I understood her wo
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Thoughts On The Trump Bull… Market
Jan 17, 2019
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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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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