Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Brave New Dystopian World
Mar 03, 2022
0 Comment
The Flynn effect is over. That’s the trend whereby human intelligence increases by about 3 points a decade. Recent research reveals the trend is in reverse. Humans are getting dumber. Scientists speculate the reasons are varied: changes in our education systems, nutrition, the c
Continue Reading →
Putin And The Dead Poets Society
Mar 01, 2022
The anniversary may have escaped many of us, but 2022 is the year in which the film, Soylent Green is set. The story depicts a time when human activity has so depleted natural resources, humans can no longer grow crops to sustain themselves. The living survive by eating the dead.
Continue Reading →
New Frontiers Of Money
Feb 24, 2022
Everyone knows about the split between left-wing Democrats in Congress and moderates. The left wants to redistribute wealth by raising taxes on the rich. Moderates who come from politically divided districts want to move more slowly. Some, like Senator Joe Manchin, openly worry th
Continue Reading →
Who’s In Charge Of Reality?
Feb 22, 2022
While Russia persists in its ambitions for world dominance, I wonder if Putin notices technology is inventing other realities. First, there was the worldwide net. Next came virtual reality. Now there is the metaverse. According to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, the metaverse
Continue Reading →Curious About Indonesia For A Start
Feb 17, 2022
Who reads this blog? This May will begin “Write Away’s” twelfth year, so I’m curious about its audience. Some subscribers have been with me almost the full time. The site has never gone viral but its readers seem to be loyal. Few have unsubscribed while visitor numbers gro
Continue Reading →
A Brief History of Truth
Feb 15, 2022
Someone on my Facebook page replied to one of my blogs about atheism. He said because the world exists, someone had to have made it, which means there is a god. I replied if cause and effect governed the universe that would be true. But quantum theory challenges cause and effect as a
Continue Reading →
The Worst And Best Of Times
Feb 10, 2022
Who doesn’t love Michael J. Fox the scallywag actor from Back to the Future? As most of us know, he’s fighting a losing battle with Parkinson’s disease and gave up acting last year because the illness now impairs his speech. Even so, he remains active, writing books whil
Continue Reading →
Fables That Shape Our Democracy
Feb 08, 2022
A columnist wrote recently that anti-vaxxers who fall victim to the Covid virus shouldn’t be admitted to hospitals. Facing death, he said, was too late to embrace medical science. His statement contains an “either/or” proposition. Either a person takes the vaccine or forgoes t
Continue Reading →
Life Is No Poem
Feb 03, 2022
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” lists the attributes of a rational human being. Paramount is to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… That’s a tall order these days. Robert Reich, famed economist and liberal commentator, lost his head recently. Furious
Continue Reading →
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
To access and subscribe to my videos on YouTube, Click Here and click the Subscribe button.