Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
How Isis Runs
Nov 18, 2014
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I admit I have little knowledge about Muslims or their faith. At best, I brushed shoulders with a few while traveling in East Africa. My most memorable encounter was with my safari guide in Uganda. During one of our many chats, he mentioned a custom in his country that obliged a w
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Dawkins Versus A Gray Area
Nov 17, 2014
Richard Dawkins has published the first of his two part memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, and John Gray, emeritus professor of European thought at the London School of Economics, has taken the work apart with surgical deftness. He depicts Dawkins as a man who is facile in his thinking
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Facebook’s Brave New World
Nov 13, 2014
We have a new reason “to despise Facebook,” says Jay Barmann of SFirst.com. (“Talking Points,” The Week, October 3. 2014 pg. 16) The company has long had a policy that requires users to subscribe under their real names. But what’s in a name some Drag Queens are beginni
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Nov 12, 2014
One of my blog readers sent me a writer’s comment on the art of blogging. Barry Ritholtz has been producing a financial blog, Big Picture for over 10 years. As chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management and the author of Bailout Nation, the writer has credentials whi
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A Blogger’s Life
Nov 12, 2014
One of my blog readers sent me a writer’s comment on the art of blogging. Barry Ritholtz has been producing a financial blog, Big Picture, for over 10 years. As chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management and the author of Bailout Nation, the writer has credentials wh
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Good Enough
Nov 11, 2014
Yesterday a friend called and by her hesitant manner, I knew she wanted a favor. Eventually, she got to her point. She wanted me to have coffee with her friend who was writing her first book and who wanted my advice on how to proceed. I agreed to meet this friend, of course. A
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Courage At Any Age
Nov 10, 2014
During a recent lunch date with my mother, who is 98, she admitted to a growing sense of vulnerability. Her memory was fading and she had difficulty finding the words she needed. This loss of self, she admitted, was a cruel penalty for having a long life. Stunned by her candor
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Publish And Perish
Nov 07, 2014
Nearly a year ago, I wrote a blog about a group of scientists who decided to break the stranglehold research journals have in deciding whose work receives public recognition and whose work doesn’t (Blog 1/1/13) What emerged was a suite of journals covering all areas of science a
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Black Holes In The Universe
Nov 06, 2014
A small news item with huge potential consequences appeared in the press the other day. It touched upon the unified theory of everything, the quest for an understanding that would explain how electromagnetism, strong and weak forces in nature and gravity work together. (Blog 10/21/1
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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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