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Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075

January 21, 2023

I was fifteen years ago and miserable when I first went to a youth group Havdalah service one winter evening. I was living with my very difficult father in a big house, so much bigger now that my mother and siblings had moved out, and I was the loneliest I had or have ever been,

Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074

January 8, 2023

Juxtapositions — putting like with non-like — add zip, surprise, sometimes anxiety, and often uncertainty to our lives. They’re also at the heart of what makes poetry poetry: images and language you don’t expect together that pop open new ways to see the world. So let’s just say it’s more a more-than-poetic weekend (or life).

The Dark of the Dark, the Cold of the Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 1073

December 23, 2022

In the middle of the longest night of the year, my anxiety search dogs kept jarring me awake, running amok while looking for something to chew on. Tiny and medium-sized annoyances, worries, and sadnesses gripped me at 1:05 a.m., 3:33 a.m., and at a higher speed between 4:15-5:15 a.m. for some reason. “Chill out,” I

For the Love of Aunt Jill: Everyday Magic, Day 1072

December 4, 2022

“I’m not going to leave a message,” my sister Lauren said when she left a message Friday. I was standing in the corner of an ebullient restaurant where Ken and I were having dinner with friends. I had slipped away from the table when I saw texts from two of my three siblings to call

27 Things I'm Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071

November 26, 2022

It’s almost twilight, Moxie dog is sleeping in the corner, my ears are buzzing with low-hum tinnitus, and I’m about to make dinner. Looking into my house and glancing out the windows to see our warm lights reflected over the darkening sky, I realiz the best thing to write about are some of the things

Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?: Everyday Magic, Day 1070

November 12, 2022

Time continually befuddles me, so much so that my last book of poetry was called How Time Moves, and I’m still deep in the muck of figuring out what time is and how it keeps slipping through my fingers and surging backwards under my moving feet. Being a little number-dyslexic, I also stumble mightily when

Tuning In To Realer News: Everyday Magic, Day 1069

October 31, 2022

I’ve stopped tuning into most of what we call news until after the midterms. It isn’t because I don’t care, quite the contrary, but because I keep learning that the realer news is right out the front or back door, which is also a great remedy for tangling myself in the land of what-ifs. Unlike

Living As If We Know We'll Be Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1068

October 7, 2022

In one of my favorite movies, About Time, the main character, who can time travel, hatches a great plan: he’ll live each day with all its waking up exhausted, rushing through big halls, and navigating crowded subways where some guy blasts loud music on his phone. Then he’ll live the same day again knowing what

What Floatillas, Japanese Bullet Trains, Mishegoss, and Star Trek Have to Do With Writing a Memoir?: Everyday Magic, Day 1067

September 18, 2022

All week, I’ve been writing on the porch of one of the houses at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This is my happy place where I come regularly to immerse myself in writing up one wall and down another, or more aptly, since I spend most of my writing time

Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066

September 7, 2022

Walking to the edge of the deck this early morning to take this photo of the fog burning off the brome field and the prairie, I felt great tenderness for the hard-won: all that comes to us after or during great struggle. Here is the land where Ken and I are so blessed to live,