Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Modern Monetary Theory 101
Apr 10, 2019
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In a February blog, I mentioned an economic idea beloved by the far left called Modern Monetary Theory. (MMT) It posits that a country with its own currency needn’t worry about accumulating debt because it can print money to pay off its interest. Sounding too good to be true
Continue Reading →Chasing Time
Apr 09, 2019
My mother, who recently turned 103, and I had an Indian Restaurant where we liked to have lunch. The moment we stepped through the door, steam rising from the kitchen, beckoned with aromatic fingers. Curry. Cumin. Saffron. Too often, we were the shop’s only patrons. Not becaus
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Transhuman
Apr 08, 2019
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX has a new dream. Beyond technology for the earth and the stars, he wants to redesign humankind. If we don’t use our know-how to enhance ourselves, he believes artificial intelligence will conquer humanity. (“Hacking mortality,” The Week
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Adrian Abramovich Thinks Nobody Cares About Him and He’s Right
Apr 05, 2019
For several months last year, I received more robot calls than there are fruit flies in a banana republic. I let them ring without answering and, recently, they’ve stopped. I don’t know if ignoring them is the reason, but I’m grateful for the silence. To say these interrup
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Finding The Right Code
Apr 04, 2019
I have a friend who is averse to reading emails. That makes it difficult for us to arrange to meet for coffee because I’m averse to telephones. As spies we’d do dismally. How would we come together long enough to arrange a dead drop, a place where we would leave and pick up
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Empty The Head That Wears The Crown
Apr 03, 2019
Want to know if you have an empathy deficit? Try this experiment. Without looking into a mirror, draw the letter E on your forehead. If you print the letter as it might appear on the back of your eyelids, rather than the way someone else might read it, you may want to consider a
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Breaking Up Isn’t Hard To Do
Apr 02, 2019
Recently, I received an email from the person who designed my web page. “Caroline, is it possible for me to receive your blogs two or three times a week instead of one every day?” Can she? I don’t know. She created the site. Never mind, I understood what she wanted.
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How Many Apps Am I Programmable For?
Apr 01, 2019
I wonder how many apps developers can create that the public will continue to buy. A new one allows Donald Trump supporters to find restaurants where they can feel safe, not from guns, but from a “socialist goon squad.” (“Only In America,” The Week, March 22, 2019, pg. 6.)
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Moving With The Time
Mar 29, 2019
Scientists are playing around with Time again. A few of them in Moscow say they’ve reversed Time at the quantum level. Those at MIT say “no.” It only looks as though Time’s been reversed. These geniuses on both sides of the argument should stop fooling around, in my op
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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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