Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
I Didn’t See It Coming
Oct 03, 2014
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From time to time, I’ve speculated about how changes in technology will affect the future. (Blogs 7/25 & 2/14/14) Some consequences I hadn’t foreseen, however, until The Week brought them to my attention. (8/29/14) Let’s think about prostitution for a moment. Even the
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Fear Robots? Not Me.
Oct 02, 2014
In his new book, Super Intelligence, Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, issues a warning about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Huffington Post One of the problems lies with language which can been dangerously ambiguous. Tell a robot its mission is to m
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Alone At The Table
Oct 01, 2014
Not long ago, I received an email from a writer whose book I’d rated as 3 stars on Amazon. She complained that my ranking was too low and countered with the opinion of someone I did not know but whose reputation she considered to be greater than mine. He said her novel was a mas
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Anatomy Of A Play – Part VI
Sep 30, 2014
The evening I met with the actors who would read my play, I was nervous, as if I were auditioning for a part. The drama requires 5 actors — 2 men and 3 women – so, with the director and me, 7 of us gathered round a table to get acquainted. I’d eaten earlier but the o
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Ladies Of The Night
Sep 29, 2014
Literature has been no more kind to its prostitutes than real life has been. While fallen wives have made memorable heroines — Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina among them — few novels feature the travails of working girls. Fannie Hill and Moll Flanders are the exception
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The Thickness Of A Prison Wall
Sep 26, 2014
When it comes to inversions, (Blog 8/28/14) — corporate shell games to avoid U. S. taxes — some defenders of the practice tie themselves in knots to excuse unpatriotic behavior. Diana Furchtgott-Roth of Market Watch.com, for example, insists the fault behind this behavio
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Winners And Wing Nuts
Sep 25, 2014
The war over the price of eBooks between Amazon and the large publishing house, Hachette, still rages. Hanchette wants more money for its books. Amazon wants to charge the public less. Recently, a petition signed by nearly 900 of Hanchette’s most prominent authors appeared in
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Wicked
Sep 24, 2014
Yahoo news recently carried an article about a college student who lived in his car during his Freshman year because he couldn’t afford housing. He talked about the embarrassment he faced because of it, but his experience is far from unique. Homelessness is a condition too man
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The Bag-Lady Syndrome
Sep 23, 2014
As time grows shorter until my move to the retirement center, I become increasingly nervous. I worry about the ongoing costs over time and how inflation will eat into my savings. Almost everyone shares some worry about money, given our sluggish economy. Much of my anxiety stems
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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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