Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Strategy For Networking
Apr 27, 2016
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Strategy, strategy, strategy. To reach our goals we need to have one or several. Unfortunately, planning is a lesson we don’t learn early. The young have little sense of time. They live in the moment like the hedonistic cricket in Aesop’s fable. The ant’s wisdom usuall
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Communication Skills And The American Narrative
Apr 26, 2016
A poet in China complains her country has weaker communications skills than Americans and therefore is less able to promote its core values. Students in China, she says, are taught by rote rather than encouraged to use creativity and imagination. (“Shall We Teach Creativity?”
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Guilt, Shame And Redemption
Apr 25, 2016
Guilt and shame seem to describe the same human condition. Both reactions arise from having done something wrong. According to the experts, however, the two are different. Guilt is a response to a specific action, an event external to an individual. Stealing a cookie from a shop
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Immortality And The Writer
Apr 22, 2016
Thoughts of immortality enter most people’s minds before they cross the final threshold. Presidents think of their legacy. Actors imagine their hand prints cemented into a square on Hollywood Boulevard, and no tyrant ever failed to strike a heroic pose for a statue. On the que
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Surveillance As Judge And Jury
Apr 20, 2016
Surveillance tools are everywhere. Another device is coming soon to a store near you: software that identifies individual faces in a crowd. Walk through Macy’s one afternoon and you may hear a message telling you your favorite cologne is on sale. And those greeters with their
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Literature: That Which Has No Utility
Apr 19, 2016
Literature makes a great contribution to our culture, but should it be taught in high school? That question is the genesis for a new book, Lit Up by David Denby. (“Saved by the Bell,” by William Giraldi, New Republic, March 2016, pgs. 66-68.) As a former high school English te
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Coloring Books — A Brief History Of Adult Fascination
Apr 18, 2016
Coloring books for adults are all the rage. One retired acquaintance admitted she’d recently bought a book, attracted by the elaborate patterns. She insisted a high degree of concentration was necessary to stay within the lines, a comment which made me think of the earnestness o
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The Election-Industrial Complex
Apr 15, 2016
The election-industrial complex is alive and well, as anyone can see by the amount of propaganda bombarding us through the media. The assumption is that votes can be bought if a candidate can throw enough commercials at the public. Commercials suck up money the way tornadoes suck
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Artificial Intelligence And Negative Human Influence
Apr 14, 2016
Artificial intelligence mirrors the many faces of being human. Our creations can be vicious and cruel as in The Terminator or curious and compassionate as in Wall-E. They can destroy our word as in The Matrix, betray us as in Ex Machina or give us a glimpse of miraculous possibi
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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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