Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Crime, Punishment And The Human Brain
Sep 15, 2017
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Situational dynamics is a proven way to seduce good people into doing bad things, a discovery that began as an experiment and was later documented in The Lucifer Effect, by Phillip Zimbardo in 2007. The study upon which the book was based, and which will be dramatized this month a
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Watson: Seeing Michelin Stars
Sep 14, 2017
Yesterday, I had lunch with my retirement center gaggle of men, all over 90. (Blog 7/15/15) As the day was sunny, they were seated near a window. One had ordered a bowl of soup; the other sat before a cup of coffee; a third had grabbed a boiled egg from the salad counter. When m
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A Life Measured In Coffee Spoons
Sep 13, 2017
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” written by a 22 year-old T. S. Eliot, turns a hundred this year. A brilliant poem, according to those who keep the cannon, though many despaired it was written by a man deemed a fascists, whose title character was named after a furniture
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Let No Man Put Asunder
Sep 12, 2017
There’s a gaggle of men, all over 90, who hang together at my retirement center. Often, I join them for coffee and the laughter can get pretty rowdy. Sometimes, though, I’ll find one of them dozing in an overstuffed chair in the lobby. Whichever one it is, I always hope he
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Beauty And The Beholder
Sep 11, 2017
In a recent interview, Nobel winner Toni Morrison talked about growing up as an African American and what color and beauty meant within the black community. At Howard University, which she attended, she said there was a test for beauty. The ideal was to have skin no darker than th
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The Wisdom of Unmanipulated DNA
Sep 08, 2017
There was a time not long ago when government funded most of the medical research in this country. (“Tech’s Quest for Immortality,” reprint from The Washington Post article by Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Week, May 8, 3/15 pg. 37.) Now, two-thirds of that research is funded by bi
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IQ and Genius: Bedfellows But Not The Same
Sep 07, 2017
When I was a senior in college, I took a class in art history from a beloved professor, Lloyd Reynolds. On the day our final exams were returned, the professor called out my name and discovering I had skipped class, he read my essay to those present. After he’d finished, he conc
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Who You Gonna Trust? Robo-Adviser!
Sep 06, 2017
I can think of nothing spookier and more like science fiction than turning to a robot for advice on my savings and retirement accounts but, believe or not, the time is neigh. Two companies, Betterment and Wealthfront are betting their robots can provide quality advice and undercut e
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The Miracle Of Silence
Sep 05, 2017
At the retirement center I’m learning the fine art of living in a community while retaining my solitude. The impulse of others to be welcoming is touching, so I am developing ways to assure my neighbors that solitude isn’t synonymous with being lonely. Solitude is a quest for a
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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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