Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Conundrom
Nov 25, 2015
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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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A Government We Deserve
Nov 18, 2015
Everyone on my Facebook page was seething with anger when 32 year-old entrepreneur Martin Shkreli bought the rights to Daraprim — a generic HIV drug –and raised the price from $13.50 a tablet to $750. He’d done the same with another drug while working for a different com
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P@$$ed Out by 2 Many P@$$words
Nov 16, 2015
Over the weekend, I had to open a new web account which required my email address and a secure password. I hate thinking up passwords. I hate recording them in a notebook, which is becoming as large as the English Oxford Dictionary. And I hate having to look up a password up each time
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How Trump Trumps
Nov 13, 2015
For a wonderful example of how the elite bring contempt of the masses upon themselves, look no further than Grayson Carter’s editorial attack on Donald Trump. (“Steel Traps And Short Fingers,” by Grayson Carter, Vanity Fair, November 2015 pg. 68.) Trump is an easy punching b
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Hamlet Must Die
Nov 12, 2015
Recently I came across a reference to a literary classic of which I was totally ignorant. I’m sure there are many great works lost to historical memory, but out of curiosity, I looked this one up. The work is Orlando Furioso written in 1516 by Ariosto, the man who coined the term
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The Nudge
Nov 10, 2015
Subliminal messaging contends the unconscious mind can be reached by tricking the conscious one. Want to sell more popcorn at the movies? Flash popcorn on the screen fast enough so that the word seems invisible and wait by the cash register for your customers. The theory had its heyda
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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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