Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
These Truths Republicans and Democrats Should Hold To Be Self-Evident
Aug 27, 2018
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A former student of mine, now in his early 60s, visited me for coffee, recently. We tried to avoid discussing politics, but it was the elephant in the room. Eventually, my “young” friend admitted he found the antics in Washington, D. C. depressing. Knowing he was a liberal D
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Citizens United: Another Fine Mess We’ve Gotten Ourselves Into
Aug 24, 2018
How in the world did our Supreme Court come to the conclusion that corporations were people? Citizens United The debate over whether they are or not had been going on for 200 years, though I little knew it. As late as 1914, in a case before the Michigan Supreme Court, a brewery lo
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With Justice For All
Aug 22, 2018
As one who supports a woman’s right to choose, I listen to speculations about whether or not the U. S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that granted a woman the right to an abortion. Some pundits are complacent. They argue that after 45 years, Roe v. Wade
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When It’s Time To Come Clean
Aug 20, 2018
I once negotiated a labor contract while wearing my dress turned inside out. I didn’t realize my mistake, but after we’d concluded our session, the negotiator from the opposite site of the table walked with me to the street. “Say,” he muttered as a motorcycle growled by, “
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The Web That Matters
Aug 17, 2018
Sometimes, I forget a web larger than the world-wide web exists. You know the one I’m talking about. Nature, that place where every action has an equal and opposite reaction. That place where a butterfly flaps its wings in Argentina and Japan suffers a tsunami. To be ho
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To Be Or Not To Be A Robot
Aug 16, 2018
Recently, I got entangled with a company’s phone representative for whom English was a second language. Both her grammar and her accent made communication difficult. Finally, she brought her supervisor on the line. His, too, was hard to understand. “Do you live in the Unit
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What’s In A Name? Price
Aug 15, 2018
I might have told this story before. If so, forgive me: While on a bus, touring France, my traveling companions and I stopped at a small café. We’d been sitting for three hours, so all twenty of us made a beeline for the toilets the moment we disembarked. Confronted by two
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Come November
Aug 10, 2018
Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan professor, makes a strong case for the cyclical nature of populism in a democratic society. (“The Age of Insecurity, by Ronald Inglehart, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2018, pgs. 20-28.) He argues populism thrives during periods of change,
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YOU CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS FROM AN OLD BOOK
Aug 09, 2018
Several months ago, I broke with the last of my 4 publishers. I’ve had 4 because the first became ill and closed the business. Another bought a company that held my contract and turned out to be a crook. Law enforcement eventually shut him down. A third tried to change t
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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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