Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Secret Laws And Anarchy
Oct 23, 2014
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While having lunch with a friend, I expressed frustration in my attempt to obtain a permit from the city that would allow a moving van to park in front of my house. The commission staffers overseeing the traffic department had no idea which division handled permits and so I stumbl
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On Broccoli And Free Will
Oct 22, 2014
While scientists attempt to map the human mind in a well-funded program called The Brain Activity Map Project (BAM), theologians and philosophers wonder if that mapping will give us a greater understanding of consciousness and free will than we have now. As writer and Pulitzer priz
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Walking Through Walls
Oct 21, 2014
We humans have curious minds and I use the word in two senses: 1) as minds that take an interest in the world around them, and 2) as minds being strange in themselves. Hamlet observed, “What a piece of work is man,” (Hamlet II, ii) and I couldn’t say it better. The entire
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The Price Of Hope
Oct 20, 2014
Each year when the time comes to renew my subscription to More Magazine, I equivocate. At 78, I’m too old to care about mascara that will make my eyelashes grow. I have naked, Mona Lisa eyes. I don’t mind. I no longer wish to paint a face “to meet the faces I shall meet.
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Spies In Sheep’s Clothing
Oct 17, 2014
Language is so wonderfully malleable. It can do almost anything except my dishes. Take Lewis Carroll’s, The Jaberwocky, for example. This tale about a fearsome beast is funny, not because of what the words say, but because of how they sound. “His vorpal blade went snicker
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This Isn’t Progress
Oct 16, 2014
By now, everyone is so familiar with genetic engineering that if we read some scientist had crossed an octopus with a watermelon to create a waterpus, we wouldn’t blink. We’d accept it because we’re already familiar with genetically altered tomatoes that look great but tastes
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Some Self Defense Is Required
Oct 15, 2014
“Don’t expect Congress to protect you against all possible data invasions,” says Sergey Feldman, a data scientist, when asked to comment on “deep learning,” the latest frontier in computing. (“Do Androids Dream of Electric Lolocats?” by Dana Liebelson, Mother Jones, Sept
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Magic In The Moonlight And In Art
Oct 14, 2014
Not long ago, I contacted a friend to ask if he was interested in seeing the new Woody Allen film, Magic in the Moonlight. His reply was terse, something to the effect that he would not support the work of a child molester, a reference I presume to Allen’s marriage to his adop
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How To Beat The Cookie Monster
Oct 10, 2014
Look out internet shoppers, two electronic systems called “dynamic pricing,” and “differential pricing,” are stalking you. Dynamic pricing is the program retailers use to adjust to supply and demand. Airlines determine fares with it, for example, and so do hotels. The
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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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