Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
No Fanfare For The Common Man
Apr 06, 2017
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Like Paul Revere, I and others have spent time shouting, “The robots are coming. The robots are coming.” I’m unsure what to do about it, but as writer Jennifer Alserver notes, these machines are becoming smarter, more people sensitive and more versatile. (“Is This Ro
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The Internet — No Place For Sissies
Apr 05, 2017
The article reads like a John le Carré spy thriller. (“Chasing the Phantom,” by Garrett Graff, Wired, April 2017, pgs. 52-63) Writer Garrett Graff recounts the hunt for the world’s most successful and notorious hacker, who, with his code, walks through bank vaults as if they
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Carnival Of Insanities
Apr 03, 2017
The current political climate in the United States can only be described as jaw-dropping. At the moment, all eyes are focused upon our newly elected president who seems to have come from nowhere to gain both the nomination of the Republican Party and the White House. By no means sho
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Not All Vaginas Are Pink
Mar 30, 2017
When politics gets tough, American’s cope by using laughter. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert lead the way, of course. Michael Moore and Rachel Maddow get in a few good licks, as does Garrison Keillor. But for street genius, there’s nothing like a protest sign. Here, I’ll
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Education’s Holy War
Mar 29, 2017
Experiments are always happening in public education. During my brief years in the classroom, I remember fads like team-teaching, schools-within-schools, open classrooms, magnet schools, alternative schools and, finally, charter schools. What these variations held in common was
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The Sixth Estate — The 21st Century’s Pied Piper
Mar 28, 2017
Just as science and art have long debated the social consequences of their activities, (Blog 2/10/17), it’s time for technology, the Sixth Estate, to grapple with its responsibility. Not only are its innovations transforming society, but they are doing so faster than in the past, ef
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Trump Slump In Tourism
Mar 27, 2017
My Facebook page is rife with pictures of crocuses and daffodils springing from the damp soil. Temperate weather is ahead, my friends want to assure me I see their selfies as they stand in waiting lines at airports or pat a camel somewhere on the African continent. Winter is l
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Gone Fishing
Mar 24, 2017
Today marks 7 years of daily blogging, 5 days a week. Monday, I begin 8. Thanks to all who have joined me and welcome to any who are curious. But today, I’m gone fishing.
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The Truth Behind The Blue State Conspiracy
Mar 23, 2017
Writer Keven Baker’s modest proposal, tongue-in-cheek, is spiked with enough telling arguments to make me wonder why blue states go on funding the insanities of red states. (“Bluexit,” by Keven Baker, New Republic, April 2017, pg. 19-25.) In 2015, when Texans circulated 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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