Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Synocronicity Versus Idiosynchronicity
Jul 07, 2017
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I recently acquired a Facebook contact who quotes the Bible daily. As I am an atheist, I’m puzzled by his reason for seeking me out. Perhaps he hopes to save my soul. More likely, however, he added my name to his list through a mutual friend. For reasons I find unfathomable, s
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Teeth: The Gaps In Our Health Care System
Jul 06, 2017
When I negotiated for a teachers’ union, years ago, I avoided the trap of arguing with School Board members about where to find money for health care or salary adjustments. I insisted the district reset its priorities. That’s why I turn a deaf ear when Republicans say there is
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A Shopper’s Guide To The Mall
Jun 29, 2017
Walking through the mall near my apartment is as quiet as walking through a graveyard. Where, I ask, have all the people gone? Worse, where are the stores? Nordstrom, Payless and Radio Shack have disappeared and Sears, given the few people wandering the aisles, seems to be hanging
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Dating Algorithms: Searching For Love In All The Right Places
Jun 26, 2017
He sat opposite me at a popular restaurant, letting his coffee grow cold. In the midst of his second divorce, he wanted to talk about a dating service he’d joined, one that matched couples using algorithms. He hoped the technology would help him find a new soul mate. I hoped h
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A New Stream Requires A New Paddle
Jun 22, 2017
The television show In Treatment, starring Gabriel Byrne as psychoanalyst who was unable to get his personal life in order, is one of my all-time favorite series. I remember saying to a friend, a therapist who was also a fan of the show, “This theater is too good for American televi
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How Sweet It Is!
Jun 21, 2017
Two men stood ahead of me in the cafeteria line at the retirement center. The first had severe heart problems, I knew. The second probably did as well for his stomach hung over his belt as if it longed to kiss his thighs. The first man bought a doughnut fritter glistening with e
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A Painting Is A Painting Is A Fake
Jun 20, 2017
” …there are experts and then there are experts, and they come in varying degrees of credibility.” So writes Milton Esterow about keepers of the canon in the art world, particularly those devoted to Pablo Picasso’s contemporary, Amedeo Modigliani. (“The Modigliani Code
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An Ethical Minefield Where Control Invites Chaos
Jun 19, 2017
When Jennifer Doudna at Berkley and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France collaborated on their CRISPR research, a gene-editing tool, (Blogs 9/11/15, 6/15/16) they little imagined they’d be starting a war. But when Feng Zang, of the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, tried to patent his
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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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