Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
The Sixth Estate — The 21st Century’s Pied Piper
Mar 28, 2017
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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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What Begins As Fake Usually Ends As Fake
Mar 22, 2017
My Yahoo news page came up with the following headline, recently: “Bernie Sanders followers are among the smartest… They don’t believe anything. The post must have proof…” I didn’t read further. I’m not a Bernie Sanders fan, though some of my Facebook friends hav
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Eating Our Way Into The Future
Mar 21, 2017
A magnet given to me by a friend sits on my refrigerator door. It reads, “If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?” Anyone who doubts good nutrition is important only needs to look at the role it played in the development of our species. As writer Suzana H
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The Lost Dividend Of The Alt-Right And Alt-Left
Mar 20, 2017
James Wolcott in a recent essay pokes his finger at the thorn of my discontent. We are in a period of hysteria where the political alt-right and alt-left, overblown with fears and secretly hoping for a revolution, begin to sound the same. As Wolcott explains, the two sides may not
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A Cyborg Sense Of The World
Mar 17, 2017
By the time a person reaches their 80s, many will have had hip or knee replacement surgery and possibly a pacemaker inserted under their skin to moderate heart beats. I often write about robots becoming more human with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but the question might
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Edward Snowden’s Got Our Back
Mar 16, 2017
Part of me identifies with Donald Trump. When a politician wants to get something controversial done, the media is as welcome as mosquitoes at a fishing hole. Sometimes journalists do a shoddy job of covering the issues. Sometimes the headlines are out of cinque with the story,
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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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