Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
We Don’t Want To Live In A Borg World
Sep 25, 2013
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In an earlier blog (8/28/13), I poked fun about NSA spying. But, at heart, I don’t find the subject funny. As an older person, I feel obligated to remind the young, who may know little of life before “virtual reality,” that walking into the world wide web is fun and convenient,
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The Brain/Hand Connection
Sep 24, 2013
As prehistoric as it may seem, I’m considering the purchase of a fountain pen. When I was in grammar school, my stepmother used to lend me her special pen to do my homework. The nib was the size of a needle’s point, yet it allowed the ink to flow across the paper with a smooth mov
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Opting Out
Sep 23, 2013
In the closing chapters of her best seller, Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg makes the following observation about her generation’s attitude toward feminists. In our defense, my friends and I truly, if naively, believed that the world did not need feminists anymore. We mistakenly thought
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How To Study In A Flat World
Sep 20, 2013
Sometimes I feel like I’ve dropped to earth from another planet. The impression is strongest when I discover scientific conclusions that run counter to my personal experience. I felt that way, recently, after reading an article on how to study in Scientific American Mind. As Septemb
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A New Paradigm
Sep 19, 2013
I dropped by the community library box in my neighborhood the other day and among the offerings, I found the 1997 best seller, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. I’d always meant to read the novel, so I scooped it up and brought it home. The story is about Dinah, a woman in Biblical
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Sep 18, 2013
Just want readers to know, I goofed in my dating, September 18. So, no blog today. Look for me again tomorrow. First time in almost four years. Sorry
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Conspiracy Theories And Cabals, Oh My!
Sep 17, 2013
When I was in public life, I became friendly with a journalist from my city’s daily newspaper. She was an excellent writer and while I didn’t always agree with her, I respected her research and her insights. When we were seated together one afternoon for an interview, I let slip t
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In Gut We Trust
Sep 16, 2013
Marcel Proust once wrote, “We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.” (3Quarks Daily, 5/30/2013) How right he was. Of the number of cells in our anatomy only 10% are human. The rest are microbes. (“Happy Microbes, Skinny Jeans,” by Moises Ve
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Is Higher Education Worth The Price?
Sep 16, 2013
Almost everyone’s complaining about the high cost of college tuition, but little is being done about it. Worse, writer Jeff Madrick takes a hard look at the value of a college degree given that institutions of higher learning are being forced to “operate much more like ordinary co
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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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