Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Smarter Than Dinosaurs
Sep 03, 2018
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Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 65 million years. They may have managed it because they had small brains. They didn’t possess enough grey matter to imagine how to tinker with their environment. Homo sapiens used theirs to disrupt the planet. So many changes are far f
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Close Encounters Of The Unimagined
Aug 31, 2018
Scary as it sounds, we humans have the capacity to change the course of evolution. That’s the opinion of Jennifer Doudna, one of the discoverers of CRSPR technology. (The Ultimate Life Hacker,” by Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, May/June, 2018, pg. 158.) CRSPR is the ability t
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Keeping The Rich Full Of It
Aug 30, 2018
I know what dehydration means, especially among the old. More than once, I’ve sat in a local hospital’s emergency room while my ancient mother has needles stuck in her veins to restore bodily fluids. She never was good at drinking water. A cup or two of heavily sugared tea i
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Another Stitch In Time
Aug 28, 2018
With Congress expressing so much concern about Russian interference in the 2016 election, it’s surprising to read the U. S. Senate turned down a proposal to spend additional money to secure our voting system. Certainly, we have fallen behind in maintaining both it and the nation
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These Truths Republicans and Democrats Should Hold To Be Self-Evident
Aug 27, 2018
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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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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