Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A New Game Afoot
Dec 03, 2015
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One of my readers, unhappy with my last two blogs on political correctness (blogs 6/23/15 & 8/10/15), sent me an article from the Atlantic Monthly which opposed my view. (“The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Kukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, Atlantic Monthly, September 2
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Smartphones: The Rise And Fall Of Humanity?
Dec 01, 2015
I may have mentioned earlier that the house cleaning chicks at the retirement center where I live laugh at my flip top cell phone because it does nothing but allow me to make phone calls. Yesterday I found the pair of them on a break, crouching against a wall. Neither was talking.
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Unicorns And Ladies Of The Night
Nov 30, 2015
Do unicorns exist? In Silicon Valley, they do. Unicorns are tech start-ups that begin with a billion dollars or more of venture capital behind them. In fact, there are more unicorns there than Harry Potter has seen in his world because, at the moment, tech is ripe with specula
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Venture Capitalism For The Poor
Nov 27, 2015
I wish I could mandate that only those who have lived in poverty be allowed to make laws regarding the poor. In “Getting Jobbed,” Virginia Sole-Smith outlines the absurdities that result when myths about the poor are translated into law by the Congress. (Harper’s, October, 201
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Conundrom
Nov 25, 2015
I want to pose a question: How can we develop Artificial Intelligence when our own intelligence is questionable; when we can’t agree on standards of behavior or ethical goals; when we know little about how our brains work; can’t define intelligence and have no idea what consciou
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A Salute To Greece And Grappa
Nov 24, 2015
I’ve said nothing about the tragedy unfolding in the Middle East and the refugees who are fleeing from almost certain death. What have I to contribute to the discussion? Failed solutions of the past are already being revisited. We can harden our hearts to the misery, as Isra
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The New Face Of Feminism
Nov 23, 2015
One of my blog readers is a baby boomer. We’ve never met but sometimes he comments on a blog, particularly in support of women’s issues. Being curious, I emailed him one day to ask how he came to be so sensitive to the goals of feminism. His answer: “I’ve got daughte
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Heart Of Darkness Revisited
Nov 19, 2015
Fear and ignorance make a powerful cocktail for evil. Add personal ambition to the mix and what emerges is a concoction so dark, angels weep. When I hear talk about building walls between nations and separating children from their parents by enforcing immigration laws, I whiff the p
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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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