Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Harold Pinter, Humor and Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy
Oct 29, 2018
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Recently, someone posted a remark by playwright Harold Pinter on Facebook. It read, “How can you write a happy play? Drama is about conflict and general degrees of perturbation, disarray. I’ve never been able to write a happy play…” I did a thesis on Pinter when I was
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Blockchain — The New Entanglement
Oct 26, 2018
A new wave of innovation is hitting cyberspace which few of us know about and fewer will probably notice — though the effect on everyday lives will be profound. I write of Blockchain. Blockchain “…concatenates (or chains) cryptographically verified transactions into seq
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An Atheist Ruminates On Piety
Oct 25, 2018
Not long ago a celebrity made news by dying peacefully in his sleep. A woman on Facebook noted his passing with the observation that people are destined to die the way they lived. Her words were meant as a tribute to the deceased, but the statement went too far. Normally, I’d ha
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Tinkering With Mother Nature
Oct 24, 2018
Years ago, actress Dena Dietrich, dressed in Greco-Roman garb, her dark hair encircled in a crown of daisies appeared in a commercial for Chiffon margarine. “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” she warned. Then she stared into the camera, her eyebrow arched, leading us to un
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For The Price Of A Single Night At The Theater, I Could…
Oct 23, 2018
Last week, I asked a retired friend how she planned to close out the summer. She said she’d do what she always did, join friends at the annual play festival in Ashland, Oregon. Ashland is a quaint town in the middle of rural Oregon, dedicated to recreating Shakespeare’s Elizabet
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A Simple Formula For Good Education
Oct 22, 2018
If there is one area of expertise everyone feels they have, it’s in education. All of us have been students in the classroom, right? We’ve all experienced good and bad teachers. We know what we’d like to change. But how to do it remains the question. After Bill Clinton
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We Hold These Truths To Be
Oct 19, 2018
When I was in the 4th grade, I went from being a good student to being a dunce. For some reason, I couldn’t master long division. I fell to the bottom of the class in my teacher’s eyes and in my self-esteem. The harder I tried, the more my frustration grew, ending in fear.
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Snafus And Nonesense That Pays
Oct 18, 2018
Susan Stoner and I have been producing, Just Read it, a 10 minute YouTube book review series for over two years. When I first proposed it, I doubted Susan or her cameraman husband, George, would be keen. But they agreed to give it a try, and we’ve been having fun ever since. W
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Wikipedia Meets The Girls, Alexa And Siri
Oct 17, 2018
Before the internet and Wikipedia, when I needed information, I dialed the reference librarian at my local library. The materials I needed could be wide-ranging. How to spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is one example. Or, I might want to know the population of
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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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