Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Laugh Clown, Laugh
Nov 04, 2021
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Dick Van Dyke’s quote made me laugh. At age 95, he said he doesn’t spend a minute being depressed because at his age he needs to be “enjoying himself.” (AARP Bulletin, October 2021, pg. 46.) At 85, I understand his urgency. When the road is short, it’s wise to en
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Fair Share
Nov 02, 2021
Even In the worst of times, politics can be funny. Joe Manchin, Democratic senator from West Virginia, filled me with mirth when he said he would oppose President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” budget. He didn’t want to foster an “entitlement” culture, he
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We Hold These Truths
Oct 28, 2021
After Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45h President of the United States, officials in his government began to replace information they didn’t like with false information that supported their political viewpoint. They called these changes “alternative facts.” Many of us laughed
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Bless The Birds
Oct 26, 2021
The warning came gently on a warm afternoon. Richard Cabe, one-time economist, and now sculptor, peered up at the sky and wondered aloud about the flock of birds circling overhead. Beside him, his wife, plant biologist Susan J. Tweit, looked up from her labors and gasped, but for a
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Biology Isn’t Destiny
Oct 21, 2021
At twilight, when the sky was a faint wash of blue, my mother sometimes caught me sneaking out of our apartment for one last game of hide-and-seek with neighborhood pals. “It’s not safe, after dark,” she’d scold, shaking her finger at me. “But mama, plenty of kids are arou
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Unfriended On Facebook
Oct 19, 2021
Last week, 3 Kenyans on my Facebook list unfriended me. I’d mentioned I was an atheist which caused one woman to call me a fool before disconnecting. I wasn’t surprised by her reaction. For centuries, non-believers have suffered contempt or even death at the hands of those with fa
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A Reality We Mustn’t Forget
Oct 14, 2021
Each evening when I turn off my bedside lamp, I pause to consider the cataclysmic shifts that will occur while I sleep. Somewhere in the universe, a planet may drop into a black hole or a pair of distant stars collide. From the sea, crabs might scramble toward the shore to lay their e
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Stalking The Future
Oct 12, 2021
“To go where no man has gone before,” was Geoff Hinton’s hope when he continued to pursue deep learning while other computer wizards abandoned the idea. His eventual success made him wealthy and opened new possibilities. Automated fusion, is one example, the model for managing a
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Corrupt Patriotism
Oct 07, 2021
“We are a storytelling species, every bit as much as a tool-using one,” writes the author of The English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience. I agree. As a teacher, I would tell my students, “If you want to see how your mind works, write something.” Composition exp
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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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