Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
What’s In An Alphabet?
Nov 15, 2018
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It’s a joke so old, I don’t remember the punch line. A guy stands up in a town hall meeting and shouts a number. People around him laugh. A second person calls out another number and again those present break into applause. The community is so accustomed to one another, they’v
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The Human Condition Can Be measured By Its Treatment Of Women
Nov 14, 2018
Sometimes the burden of lifting women’s status around the world seems too great to achieve. Still no alternative exists but to try. In some countries large numbers of women are little more than slaves. This is the case for North Korean women when they are caught trying to reac
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Social Security, Retirement And The Young
Nov 13, 2018
The government wants people to work into their 70s to relieve social security’s debt obligations. But doing so has numerous effects, most dramatically on the young. When older workers prolong their employment, younger ones can’t find jobs or are forced to take those with low w
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Brain Training With Games — A Follow-Up
Nov 12, 2018
Brain training with games, I wrote in an earlier blog, (Blog 9/17/15) showed little evidence the activity could make our thinking sharper. The skills learned weren’t transferable to other activities, the argument went. Despite these conclusions, some researchers continued wi
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Aging: A Lesson For The Young
Nov 09, 2018
Aging is a stealth process. We hardly recognize it’s at work until we see surprise in the eyes of someone we’ve bumped into after many years. “You’re Caroline Miller, aren’t you?” Have I changed so much, I wonder. Apparently I have. Come to think of it, so has the
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The Matrix, The Dreamer And Hot Fudge Sundaes
Nov 08, 2018
An article popped up on my computer the other day which suggested we live in a Matrix. Like the film by the same name, our lives may be no more than a dream which we are allowed to think is real. (Click) A few scientists have given the idea enough credence to propose experiments to d
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A Summer Read
Nov 07, 2018
Heart Land is a fictional memoir of a bright and reckless boy growing up in rural Ohio in 1939, at the close of the Depression and before America’s entrance into World War II. Ockley Green is a sleepy farming community where a kid with an active imagination is as likely to trick h
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Pimping For Amazon And Facebook
Nov 06, 2018
This morning a notice from Amazon popped up on my screen. The message said a customer had liked my review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant but made no mention of whether or not he or she actually bought the book. (Blog 5/5/15) Next I was reminded I’d written 13 reviews on Amaz
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The First Lesson Of Reality
Nov 05, 2018
I came across an excerpt from Barbara Ehrenreich’s latest book, Living with a Wild God, recently. (“Zapped by the Invisible World,” The Baffler, Vol. 25, 2014, pg. 13.) I’ve never read her any of her works but this segment spoke to my interest in mystical experiences. Sh
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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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