Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Virtual Wars
May 23, 2012
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Background Many of us know that the Internet began as an American project after WWII when our government needed a system that would allow message authentication between various parts of the military. Vint Cerf and his team together with the help of Robert Kahn, a computer scientist, p
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The Greatest War Facing Us May Be The Virtual One
May 22, 2012
Yesterday I talked about the power of one to effect change in the world. It may have sounded a little pie-in-the-sky but there is more method than madness in my proposal. Today, I’m going to refer to the importance of one to affect upcoming changes in the Internet. A discussion
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Proposal For A Quiet Revolution
May 21, 2012
So much of what we hear on the news or read in the paper is about a world in chaos. There’s a reason for this, of course. It’s called “marketing.” Most living creatures are designed to respond to fear because survival may depend upon it. But we humans make too great a habit
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The Art Of Verbal Gymnastics
May 18, 2012
I admit, I half admire what I am about to hold up for sport. The ability to play with language, to stretch it like taffy into a gossamer thread, is a game worthy of the Olympics for there is always the real danger the thread will break and like London Bridge come falling down. James
Continue Reading →Gothic Spring Special Announcement
May 17, 2012
Persistence pays off! I’ve just received a glowing notice from the online Midwest Book Review for Gothic Spring. I couldn’t be more tickled about this. Truly, the Midwest Book Review is the gold standard for authors trying to reach an audience. ”T
Continue Reading →Humor Is A Universal Language
May 17, 2012
A friend recently sent me a short story he’d written which is about to appear in the literary magazine, “Drash.” The publicationfocuses on Jewish and/or Pacific Northwest themed material. His tale is about a boy who uses ventriloquism to convince his Jewish parents that the li
Continue Reading →Bonfire Of The Vanities
May 16, 2012
A friend sent me an article from the local newspaper, which speculated that anger was the proper fuel for art. To support his theory, the writer, David Stabler gave three examples of artists famous for their flashes of visionary fire though it alienated those around them: Adrienne Ric
Continue Reading →Out of The Fire And Into Civilization
May 15, 2012
I might be a fool, but I’ve always sided with John Locke rather than Thomas Hobbes on the question of whether man is basically good or bad. I believe human nature is good because we need each other to survive and that necessitates cooperation and compromise. Whether that understandi
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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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