Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Laying Happy Trails
Sep 13, 2018
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been adapting to a new computer. Some mischief-makers attacked my old one. The new machine has a hard drive the size of a pack of playing cards, and it’s faster, too The bad news is, I never entirely committed all my passwords to paper,
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It’s More Than A Litmus Test
Sep 12, 2018
Around three o’clock each afternoon at my retirement center, a gaggle of residents gathers around the coffee machine to discuss, for an hour, the state of the world. I don’t usually join them because it’s the time I exercise. Sometimes, I pause long enough to grab a
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Democracy Depends Upon The Weather
Sep 11, 2018
September 11 is a day when our nation remembers one of the worst foreign attacks on its soil, a day that ushered in a never-ending war against terrorism. But there are other ways to threaten our democracy besides bombing our structures. In fact, one political threat goes
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Conspiracy Theories — Fear That Hides In Plain Sight
Sep 10, 2018
Is America becoming more conservative or more liberal? That depends upon how you read the demographics. Four out of five Americans live in urban areas, (“Notes” The Week, August 17/24, 2018, pg. 16), and if your believe a report in the Washington Post, urban areas tend to vote
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A Level Playing Field
Sep 07, 2018
I may have been born before my time, but at 82, I’m not too old to rejoice in the recent development of fertility phone aps. How wonderful that a young woman can have at her fingertips a device to help her decide when and if she wants to become pregnant. Or, how to avoid p
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Smarter Than Dinosaurs
Sep 03, 2018
Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 65 million years. They may have managed it because they had small brains. They didn’t possess enough grey matter to imagine how to tinker with their environment. Homo sapiens used theirs to disrupt the planet. So many changes are far f
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Close Encounters Of The Unimagined
Aug 31, 2018
Scary as it sounds, we humans have the capacity to change the course of evolution. That’s the opinion of Jennifer Doudna, one of the discoverers of CRSPR technology. (The Ultimate Life Hacker,” by Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, May/June, 2018, pg. 158.) CRSPR is the ability t
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Keeping The Rich Full Of It
Aug 30, 2018
I know what dehydration means, especially among the old. More than once, I’ve sat in a local hospital’s emergency room while my ancient mother has needles stuck in her veins to restore bodily fluids. She never was good at drinking water. A cup or two of heavily sugared tea i
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Another Stitch In Time
Aug 28, 2018
With Congress expressing so much concern about Russian interference in the 2016 election, it’s surprising to read the U. S. Senate turned down a proposal to spend additional money to secure our voting system. Certainly, we have fallen behind in maintaining both it and the nation
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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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