Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Stockholm Syndrome
Jul 25, 2024
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Felled by ageism, Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 campaign for U. S. President, and the country lost one of its greatest leaders. A gracious man, he put the nation above his ambition and ended Democratic anxiety about his ability to defeat Donald Trump. On the upside, his decision
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A Brief History Of Aging
Jul 18, 2024
A woman emailed to say that knowing I am in my late 80s, she admired my energy. Admittedly, I like to keep busy, but I don’t always excel at what I do. I’m bad with computers. I find them either unreliable or inscrutable, which is my way of saying I’m slow to learn their w
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Your Country Needs You
Jul 11, 2024
I’m always stunned when people confess they don’t plan to vote in the upcoming 2024 election because neither presidential candidate inspires them–as if the event was a beauty contest and the fate of the nation wasn’t at stake. Joe Biden’s poor debate performance recently
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Let There Be Shame
Jun 27, 2024
While researching material for an earlier blog, I came across an interesting statement about aging. …every decade after our fortieth birthday, our brains spend more time contemplating our own thoughts versus taking in information from the external environment. (Successful Aging by D
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Tortoise And The Hare Revisted
Jun 20, 2024
I’m going to tell a story with a moral. An old man once traveled to Saudi Arabia to plead for oil from the reigning prince. The prince, a man of middle years, enjoyed wielding power, and so he took delight in waving the old man away, certain he had humiliated his visitor. As the
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AI And The Janus Effect
Jun 13, 2024
My bank sent me a generic message about security upgrades to their electronic system. They left a line in their message for feedback. Mine was, “I hate change!” Security improvements are necessary, I know, because technology changes faster than Clark Kent can shed his business
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The System Is Rigged
Jun 06, 2024
It’s old news that a New York jury found former president Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records before the 2016 presidential election. He protested that the trial was rigged, naturally. What else can a guilty man running for the White House 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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