I’m reading two books for an upcoming taping for Just Read It, a book review program fellow writer, Susan Stoner and I air on YouTube.  One book is a dystopian novel about life in a space ship after humans have destroyed planet earth, The Book Of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch.  The sec

What frightens me about the generation that is building technologies to exploit the internet is its youth.  I fear these visionaries are too inexperienced to be left in total control.  Mark Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things,” reflects the same rebellious attitude

The day I was to meet a friend for coffee, an unexpected email arrived from him.  As the message was about a contract and included an  attachment — my friend being a real estate agent — I assumed he had sent the message in error and forwarded it back to him.  When we me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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