Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Abortion Rights — RBG Got It Wrong
Jul 31, 2018
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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 weren
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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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I’m An Atheist And I Vote
Jul 18, 2018
Somewhere along my 8 years of blogging, I picked up a gaggle of folks from East Africa.. I’ve learned they are deeply religious, possibly members of the same church. Most of the time, I read their patter about what God wants from us and what we must do to be good Christians.
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A Tale of Mystery, Intrigue, And The Lava Lamp
Jul 17, 2018
For me, computers pose a mystery. They are as confusing as a black hole or as simple as a line of 0s and 1s. When we get to algorithms, life gets tricky. I haven’t a clue about computer programing, but I remember something from calculus about the difficulty of choosing random
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How Emojis Are Born
Jul 13, 2018
Six years ago, I wrote that Moby Dick was being translated into emoji. (Click) I hardly knew what emojis* were at the time. Since then, Facebook emojis have become familiar, but I’ve never given much thought to how they came into being or how there could be enough to translate a
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Art For Art’s Sake — xxxTentacion Not Included
Jul 12, 2018
During an In My Humble Opinion (IMHO) segment of Public Broadcasting Service news (OPB), Amanda Petrusich, music critic for the New Yorker, spoke about the “outdated” notion that a work of art stands apart from the person who created it. The theory is long-standing and k
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The Moral Property Of Women
Jul 11, 2018
Last week, I wrote about the return of midwifery to this country, and its underground movement to teach women to perform self-induced abortions. (Click) Another option exists for the same purpose, but it isn’t widely known. The drug, Mifepristone, can be effective if self-admini
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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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