Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
To Be Or Not To Be A Robot
Aug 16, 2018
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Recently, I got entangled with a company’s phone representative for whom English was a second language. Both her grammar and her accent made communication difficult. Finally, she brought her supervisor on the line. His, too, was hard to understand. “Do you live in the Unit
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What’s In A Name? Price
Aug 15, 2018
I might have told this story before. If so, forgive me: While on a bus, touring France, my traveling companions and I stopped at a small café. We’d been sitting for three hours, so all twenty of us made a beeline for the toilets the moment we disembarked. Confronted by two
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Come November
Aug 10, 2018
Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan professor, makes a strong case for the cyclical nature of populism in a democratic society. (“The Age of Insecurity, by Ronald Inglehart, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2018, pgs. 20-28.) He argues populism thrives during periods of change,
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YOU CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS FROM AN OLD BOOK
Aug 09, 2018
Several months ago, I broke with the last of my 4 publishers. I’ve had 4 because the first became ill and closed the business. Another bought a company that held my contract and turned out to be a crook. Law enforcement eventually shut him down. A third tried to change t
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By Your Pupils You’ll Be Caught
Aug 08, 2018
Of course it’s true, the rich are different from you and me. They have more money. That aside, if you look closely into any tribe, you’ll find quirkiness. The art world is no exception. Where else but there would an expert who is in jail for art forgery, hold court with di
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Tim Berners-Lee And One Giant Step For Mankind
Aug 07, 2018
Despite the growing loss of personal privacy on the world wide web, a number of idealists are fighting against the trend. (Click) They are trying to give users command over their personal data. In India, “ a group of activists successfully blocked Facebook from implementing a
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The Best You Can Be
Aug 06, 2018
Recently, a former student contacted me. She was organizing a high school reunion which included several of my former pupils. She provided the time, date and location of the gathering, then asked if I’d care to attend. I was flattered, naturally, but more touched by her clos
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Cloak and Dagger Stuff Without A Trench Coat
Aug 02, 2018
With colleges and universities touting their science and technology departments over humanities and the arts, a person could forget how much fun living the life of Indiana Jones (Click) can be — minus the poison darts, of course. But it is possible to live the life if one has
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Political Ideals And Economic Realities. Is Democracy Doomed?
Aug 01, 2018
In the 1960s, I toured Makerere University in Uganda. Later, during that visit, I found myself seated at dinner beside one of the African instructors. The country had recently won its independence, and the gentleman was not only ebullient about the future, he was a virulent critic
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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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