Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Incalculable Cost
Jan 29, 2019
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Though it occurred many years ago, I’ll never forget the day when, as a teacher, I walked into the woman’s lounge at school and found a rape victim, a young student, collapsed on a couch, her taffy colored hair cascading over a blue, velvet cushion. With her pupils thrown far ba
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Money Can’t Buy Everything
Jan 28, 2019
Let me assure doubters that mud at the bottom of a pond is as dark and deep as any to be found in a lake. By mud, I’m talking about power games as they are played from rural Alabama or New York. Near the end of my final term as a county commissioner in a midsize city, I became pri
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Donald Trump 101
Jan 25, 2019
There’s a university professor in Canada who is teaching an introductory journalism course, unique because it focuses on Donald Trump’s ability to keep the media and everyone else off-balance. (“From Tocqueville to Trump,” by Joel Stein, Vanity Fair, Feb. 2019, pgs. 36-37.)
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A Cashless Society? No Thanks
Jan 24, 2019
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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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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