Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Cult Of Fear
May 22, 2018
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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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May 11, 2018
I joked with a friend, recently, that if religious conservatives have their way, abortions will be illegal at the point of coitus. We both laughed. But I’m not laughing anymore. Iowa’s woman governor, Kim Reynolds, has signed a bill that makes abortion illegal at the first
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Down The YouTube Rabbit Hole
May 10, 2018
I have a friend who thinks whatever appears on YouTube must be true. Though a sensible woman in all other respects, she thrives on conspiracy theories, and YouTube abounds in them. There, she can find fake news on the cabal to poison our water systems; a threat to destroy organic fo
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A Brief History Of Stephen Hawking
May 08, 2018
If the young want to know why the old keep looking to the past, I’ll tell them. Sometimes, we old folks don’t like where the future is taking us. Our measuring stick is Time and being longer than theirs, the old can recognize the difference between progress and change. W
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The Relative Comfort Of Prison
May 07, 2018
When I served in public life, common knowledge was that the number of jail inmates swelled in winter. Desperate to come in from the cold, the indigent resorted to petty crimes and waited for the police to arrest them. Law enforcement officers became social workers. Their job was
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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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