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Ethan Miller's blog

This blog contains a mix of personal news, thoughts, and interesting photos. I’ll try to categorize posts so that you can only see the stuff in which you’re interested. Use tags to find blog posts of particular interest. Some of the posts are password-protected; if you'd like the password, please send me an email asking for it, or send a request via the contact page.

Comments are welcome on all of the posts. I promise that I will never use your email for commercial purposes, and will not send you spam under any conditions. I might use your email address to push out an update to friends a few times per year. Hopefully, that won’t be too much email for you.

You're welcome to follow the blog if you’d like to keep up with family news and photos, since I won’t be posting them on Facebook. I encourage you to keep in touch via email or text message—see the contact page for details.

Oregon vacation house is finished!

Oregon vacation house is finished!

Feb. 9, 2024 • Ethan Miller

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Directions to our house

Oct. 3, 2023 • Ethan Miller

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Oregon house update: Winter 2023

Feb. 22, 2023 • Ethan Miller

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Oregon house update — Fall 2022

Nov. 25, 2022 • Ethan L. Miller

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Oregon house update — June 2022

June 9, 2022 • Ethan L. Miller

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I'm retiring from UCSC!

Jan. 12, 2022 • Ethan L. Miller

I will retire from my position as a tenured full professor at UC Santa Cruz at the end of June 2023, at which time I will become an emeritus faculty member. By waiting until the end of the 2022–...


Oregon vacation house details

Jan. 3, 2022 • Ethan L. Miller

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Building a vacation house

Jan. 2, 2022 • Ethan L. Miller

Lisa and I purchased three acres of land in southern Oregon on the Rogue River, and are building a vacation house there. We'd love to have friends, new and old, visit us at the new home, once ...