Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Little Cowardice
Oct 09, 2014
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A blog reader wrote to thank me for sharing the latest PEW Research Center’s survey about Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations. In the main, the attitudes expressed there were similar to those found in the PEN survey I discussed earlier. (Bog 12/2/13) Snowden’s revelations about t
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Throwing Out The Welcome Mat
Oct 08, 2014
Who knew? While some members of Congress are fuming about immigration across our southern border, the US is opening the gates to other folks, primarily from China. Over the past few years nearly 48 million of that nation’s wealthiest citizens have migrated to other countries
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The Enemy Lies Within
Oct 07, 2014
Who doesn’t love a clash of Titans? Not Hollywood certainly. But in the world of economics, something in that vein is going on as Nobel laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, takes on Thomas Piketty and his recent best seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty’s tome is 700 p
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Huh?
Oct 06, 2014
After spending an August afternoon shopping with her granddaughter for back to school clothes, a friend sent me an email saying that all the child talked about was her determination not to be a chatterbox in the coming year. A month has passed since that conversation and I’m wonde
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I Didn’t See It Coming
Oct 03, 2014
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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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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