Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
My World And Welcome To It
Mar 20, 2025
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I met Noam Chomsky in graduate school. I say “met” metaphorically. His work was required reading for my degree. He had an idea that language was natural to the human brain, then went about proving it with linguistics–an almost mathematical formulation of how languages
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Illusory Truth Versus The Media
Mar 13, 2025
Research proves that when a falsehood is often repeated, people tend to believe it. The phenomenon is called the illusory truth effect. One example is that Vitamin C cures a cold. Another is that the 2020 election was stolen. A lie about Trump flourishes among Christian Evangelicals
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Taxes: Cure For The God Delusion
Mar 06, 2025
Many are wondering why Kamala Harris, who ran a flawless campaign for President in 2024 and had a billion dollars in her war chest, was unable to defeat a 78-year-old scandal-ridden felon. A reason might be that though the economy was booming, 36.8 million people, roughly 11 percent o
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The Stampede Begins
Feb 27, 2025
When Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again, he isn’t talking about reverting to isolationism. He’s said America shouldn’t stand alone. What he envisions is a global strategy that divides the world into three spheres of influence the way the U. S., Britain, a
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
Feb 20, 2025
The Peril I will be blunt. Our Constitutional Order and our democracy are comatose. Here’s why. • We can no longer depend upon our elected leaders. The Republican Party has imploded. The Democrats are in disarray. Checks and balances in government are moribund. Bip
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Donald Trump Needs A Walker
Feb 13, 2025
On a visit to an ophthalmologist, I noticed my medical chart said I was mobility impaired. Having climbed 3 flights of stairs to get to his office, I was non-plussed. “What does this mean?” I said, stabbing an accusing finger at the chart. The doctor took a moment to read th
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Ordinary People And Power
Feb 06, 2025
Patriotism is out of favor these days, dropping from 70% support in 2000 to 38% today. (“The Strange Triumph of a Broken America,” by Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb. 2025, pg. 50.) Because we choose our leaders in a democracy, the decline says the voters are unhappy
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The Dark Lords Of Oligarchy
Jan 30, 2025
Growing up as a Catholic, taking Confession struck me as a wonderful device. Whenever I did something wrong during the week, if I confessed on Friday, the priest would assign me a few prayers to recite, and “poof”, like magic, I was absolved of sin. If I missed a week, I cou
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In Search Of Sally’s Chair
Jan 23, 2025
I am not hopeful for a country to be led by Donald Trump over the next four years. Frankly, his presidency looms like a hurricane funnel on the horizon. So, I’ve been thinking about what to put in my mental storm cellar to survive. After all, at age 88, I’m hopeful for a few
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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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