Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Circadian Rhythms Versus Algorithms
Oct 16, 2018
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A woman joined me at the retirement center where I sat drinking coffee and sighed. “My doctor wants me to lose weight, but I don’t eat that much. I skip breakfast, have a muffin mid-morning and only sit for a meal at dinner. Still, I’m gaining weight.” My companion suf
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Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
Oct 15, 2018
Before I took my seat on the county board of commissioners, my predecessor was famous for saying, “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.” In my experience, he and Mark Twain, to whom the quote is attributed, were wrong After a year of the budget cycle, I no longer believed
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A Memoir In Search Of A Message
Oct 11, 2018
While sitting with a guest for tea at the retirement center, a gentleman, to whom I’d never spoken, paused by our table. “You’re the writer, aren’t you?” As I strive to be one, I nodded. “ Well, I wanted to tell you about the greatest opening to a novel I’ve ever r
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Coffee, Tea or Tofu?
Oct 10, 2018
Someone on Facebook asked the question, “What’s the one food you won’t eat.” I replied, “animals.” Soon, a few “likes” attached to my comment. Some vegetarians were cheering me on. Or, maybe they were folks who wanted eliminate meat from their diet but haven’
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The Compliment That Insults
Oct 05, 2018
In his popular novel, The Overstory, Richard Powers creates a woman who devotes her life to the study of trees. Her diligence rewards her. She makes an astounding discovery. Trees communicate with each other through the air. Though her research is scrupulous, her male colleagu
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Algorithm For The Public Good
Oct 04, 2018
Nobody likes a multi-billionaire who stiffs his workers. Donald Trump accuses Jeff Bezos of greed and Bernie Sanders agrees, suggesting a man who pockets $157 billion a year while his warehouse workers live on food stamps is a man whose conscience is questionable.* While Trump’s
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Rethinking Educational Priorities
Oct 03, 2018
Institutions of higher learning like to advertise that a college education can add a $1 million to a student’s lifetime earnings. Lured by that promise, students blindly assume debt that can last a lifetime. One thirty-year-old man, who graduated with an MA in Literature, ca
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A View From The Soap Box
Oct 01, 2018
Weaponizing anger is a dangerous game. Bernie Sanders tried it in the last Presidential election and so did Donald Trump. Trump did it better and he remains a beacon for those who feel disenfranchised. What both candidates did was tap into the residue loathing still with us from
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They Own Us
Sep 28, 2018
Do you know your trustworthiness score? Did you know Facebook has given you one? To avoid accusations they are purveyors of fake news, the company now uses an algorithm to determine a member’s credibility. Twitter, reportedly, is moving in the same direction. (“Facebooks
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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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