Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Sixth Estate Controls The Future. Who Controls The Sixth Estate?
May 24, 2017
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As recently as May 15, I questioned where the young techies, building their virtual worlds, are taking us. Certainly, they live a schizophrenic existence. On the one hand, they purport to be bringing people together and creating a democratic agora for ideas. On the other hand, t
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Wi-Fi, Routers and Gizmos, Oh My!
May 22, 2017
I know so little about today’s blog topic, I should blush with shame. I’m so ignorant about technology, I’m not certain where my Wi-Fi lives. Remember me? I’m the woman who secretly believes the algorithms installed on my computer do more harm than good. (Blog, 5/17/2017)
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Salad Dressing Is The Price Of Freedom
May 18, 2017
How petty can I get? Very! Right now I’m in a pique because the manager of the food service where I live has added another restriction. I can have a salad, but I must ask for the dressing. The manager explains he hides it to save counter space, an excuse that might convince
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To Break Or Brake With My Algorithm?
May 17, 2017
My blog platform comes with an “editor” that is unreliable. If I were to write, “I brake for animals,” fifty percent of the time it would suggest “break” with the word underlined in red. That substitution would have earned a student an F in my English class. The progra
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19th Century Brain In A 21st Century World
May 16, 2017
The circle of coffee gals at the retirement center (Blog 5/3/2017) had already arrived for their morning break when I entered their magic circle, sputtering a few words about the appalling leadership in the country. A 94 year-old women wheeled up with her walker to join us. Barb
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Mark Zuckerberg Has A Dream — Heaven Help Us!
May 15, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg and his nerdy cohorts have a dream to turn the internet into a global village that will spread ideas and possibly democratic seeds to all parts of the world. (“Connection can breed contempt,” by Jamelle Boule, excerpted from Slate in The Week, May 5, 2017, pg.
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Too Much Information And Too Little Public Good
May 12, 2017
Unlike a declining number of people on the planet, I can remember when my life wasn’t documented. I can recall researching the subject of ear wax at the library without finding my mailbox stuffed the next day with discount coupons for drops or scrapers to facilitate its removal.
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Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
May 11, 2017
With a billionaire in the White House, people around me are talking about money and privilege and blaming the rich for most of our social ills. Is it any wonder the upper class suffers from paranoia? If you doubt my observation, consider writer Jessica Pressler’s report that sec
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Anger, Righteousness And Outrage — Only One Empowers
May 10, 2017
The saying has been around for a long time: “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.” A number of people seem to be angry on Facebook, lately. A group of women dumped on Ivanka Trump the other day for defending her father when she was Angela Merkel’s guest at t
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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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