Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
More Secrets Than Victoria Imagined
Jan 09, 2019
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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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The Little Black Box And Other Intricacies Of The Human Mind
Jan 03, 2019
One of my computer gurus ran into trouble with his machine recently. For two days, he bent over it, wondering what went wrong inside its “little black box.” He finally fixed the problem, but isn’t certain why it occurred. I shouldn’t laugh because I depend on this guy
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New Year. Same Old Human Race
Jan 02, 2019
The beginning of a new year is a good time to take stock of the human race. Frankly, I’m surprised we’re still around, having been in one conflict or another for the past 2000 years. Beyond that, we spend a good deal of time thinking about money and are willing to gut the pl
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Abortion Rights: How Many Advocates Are Enough
Dec 31, 2018
The woman was screaming into the phone. “How about I tell you what’s under… my sink and in my medicine cabinet and you tell me how to use it.” (“Alias Jane,” by Cindy Wolfe Boynton, MS, Fall, 2018, pg. 39.) She needed an abortion and she needed it soon. The year was
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Creativity, Good Grades and Intelligence
Dec 28, 2018
Here’s a surprising comment I discovered in a magazine, recently. “Research across industries shows that while there’s a modest correlation between grades and job performance the first year out of college, after a few years, the difference is ‘trivial’” (“Straight A’s
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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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