Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Technological Updates
May 29, 2018
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Crispr is a technique that has added a large body of knowledge to our understanding of the human genome. (Click) (Click) It is a gene-editing technique which allows human DNA to be altered in the hope of ending deadly diseases like cancer and sickle-cell anemia. Two women worked tog
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Mocking Does Not Become Her
May 28, 2018
My morning began, as it usually does, by taking the pulse of Facebook. England’s royal wedding got most of the comments, which didn’t surprise me. What did raise my eyebrows was a gentleman’s remark, someone who is usually supportive on women’s issues. “Just can’t
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After The Fall, Don’t Blame The Women
May 25, 2018
After the 2008 financial crisis in the United State — the result of Wall Street bundling bad mortgages together and selling them as investments — writer Michael Lewis wrote, The Big Short, a best seller about what happened. Primarily, he focused on the few canny invest
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Blame The Robot
May 24, 2018
I’ve done some hand wringing about robots, wondering about the degree to which they will change our world. Take self-driving cars, for example. Who is responsible if a self-driving car has an accident. The designer? The manufacturer? The automobile owner? Or, can we blame a
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The Cult Of Fear
May 22, 2018
In 1936, Aldous Huxley observed that if democracy is to work, one must govern with the consent of the people. (“Modern Despots,” by Aldous Huxley, reprinted for a 1936 article in Harper’s, February 18, 2018, pg. 37.) Thanks to gerrymandering and the Electoral College, who co
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Is Thirty Tool Old?
May 18, 2018
Four years ago, I wrote a blog in which I quoted 29- year-old Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, as saying young people were smarter than anyone else. (Click) By my math, he turned 34 on May 14 of this year, and when I read his recent testimony before Congress, I had to smile. (Clic
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Memoir, Truth And Beauty
May 17, 2018
Writer Geoff Dyer recounts a lunch where George Orwell’s wife, Sonia, and her husband’s biographer, Bernard Crick, almost came to blows over whether the famous writer did or didn’t shoot an elephant in Burma. (Nothing But,” by Geoff Dyer, Harper’s, May 2018, pgs. 73-74.) A
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And The Children Shall Lead
May 16, 2018
Folks in the business world sometimes survive the political one by appeasing both sides of the aisle. When I sought corporate contributions for my campaigns, I wasn’t surprised to learn my opponent had left some office with a check before me. I felt no ill-will. I usually left
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Words From The Wise
May 14, 2018
Make no mistake, after a writer completes a book, the work is less than halfway done. Of course, there’s the editing and the publishing, but the greatest piece is the promotion. As publicist Joanne McCall made clear in the first of my free summer seminars for writers, the tric
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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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