Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Palace For Less Than A King’s Ransom
Dec 12, 2016
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More than once during my tenure as a politician, I voted to deed public property to private parties for $1.00. That is the minimum allowed by law to secure a financial transaction in my community. Much of the time, what was awarded was a corner lot, too small to build on, which
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Who’s Hacking Your Heart?
Dec 09, 2016
Hold on to your pacemaker. Latest news is they can be hacked. Worse news is that people are making stock bets on that vulnerability. Normally, security companies wouldn’t explore medical devices as an avenue for hacking. One supposes decoding their encryption wouldn’t take h
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Santa Shopping — Advice For the One-Percenters
Dec 08, 2016
For me, the most jaw dropping division in this wide and varied country of ours comes not from politics, religion or race but from the gap between those who have heaps of money and those who don’t. Life couldn’t be more stupefying than what passes for normal on the pages of magaz
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True Lies
Dec 07, 2016
Our president-elect has told so many lies to the public, his fibbing has taken on a transparency akin to truth-telling. What’s more, when his followers fail to notice his contradictions, they provide an example of cognitive dissonance working on a massive scale. Cognitive di
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Managing Disorder — Or Not
Dec 06, 2016
Like a person in a drunken stupor, I careen between bouts of messiness and sterile order. My physical work environment is becoming more and more sterile as I gain skills that allow me to file documents on my computer. The evolution poses a new problem, however. I sometimes get los
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The Virtue of Dog-Eared Books
Dec 02, 2016
This is embarrassing. I went to a book sale the other day and sold all my novels, including my personal copy of Gothic Spring. I sold it by mistake. The book is valuable to me because I use it when I do readings. The pages are dog-eared and marked with comments I wish to m
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Working With The Brain To Enhance Function
Dec 01, 2016
If you’re feeling jittery about where the country is going, there’s good news on the personal front. The link between physical exercise and mental acuity is real. (“Ask the Brains,” Scientific American Mind, Sept/October 2016, pg.72.) As we already know, the brain requires
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A Time To Roar
Nov 29, 2016
Before Donald Trump has been sworn into the presidency, pundits, their past failed prognostications forgotten, are predicting he will be a one-term office holder. (Click) Meanwhile, Democrats are wringing their hands and emailing to their constituents about their disappointment over
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Warning Signs
Nov 28, 2016
After the November 8 election, a friend sent me the November 11, 2016 OP Ed piece by David Brooks from the New York Times. A number of my liberal friend speak kindly of the writer. He is their token conservative, I presume. In deference to them I reprint his remarks and follow w
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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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