Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
By Your Pupils You’ll Be Caught
Aug 08, 2018
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Of course it’s true, the rich are different from you and me. They have more money. That aside, if you look closely into any tribe, you’ll find quirkiness.  The art world is no exception. Where else but there would an expert who is in jail for art forgery, hold court with di
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Tim Berners-Lee And One Giant Step For Mankind
Aug 07, 2018
Despite the growing loss of personal privacy on the world wide web, a number of idealists are fighting against the trend. (Click) They are trying to give users command over their personal data. In India,  “ a group of activists successfully blocked Facebook from implementing a
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The Best You Can Be
Aug 06, 2018
Recently, a former student contacted me. She was organizing a high school reunion which included several of my former pupils. She provided the time, date and location of the gathering, then asked if  I’d care to attend. I was flattered, naturally, but more touched by her clos
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Cloak and Dagger Stuff Without A Trench Coat
Aug 02, 2018
With colleges and universities touting their science and technology departments over humanities and the arts, a person could forget how much fun living the life of Indiana Jones (Click) can be — minus the poison darts, of course. Â But it is possible to live the life if one has
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Political Ideals And Economic Realities. Is Democracy Doomed?
Aug 01, 2018
In the 1960s, I toured Makerere University in Uganda. Later, during that visit, I found myself seated at dinner beside one of the African instructors. The country had recently won its independence, and the gentleman was not only ebullient about the future, he was a virulent critic
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Abortion Rights — RBG Got It Wrong
Jul 31, 2018
In a recent article, Megan McArdle, a onetime Ralph Nader supporter now turned Libertarian, argues the time has come to throw out Row v. Wade, the High Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States. (Click) To support her position, she points to Ruth Bader Ginsberg
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Steady As She Goes, The Ship Of State
Jul 26, 2018
In  recent primaries around the country, several left leaning or socialist candidates won their elections handily. The biggest upset was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s defeat of fellow democrat and longtime incumbent, Representative Joe Crowley from New York’s Bronx district. Her
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Civility In A Civil Society
Jul 25, 2018
Recently, House Representative Maxine Water’s exhorted right-minded people to confront President Donald Trump’s cabinet members in public places to protest his unconscionable policy on immigration. (Click) Several Facebook friends agreed. One man remarked if others werenâ€
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Fake News And The Other Fake News. The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Jul 23, 2018
Recently, I opened my Facebook page to take the temperature of the comments left overnight. At the top of the news feed was an msn.com article someone shared (Click) about North Korea’s continuing efforts to strengthen its nuclear capability. The article came from Fox News. Th
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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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