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Dance Like No One’s Watching: Everyday Magic, Day 480
I was the girl who, at age six wearing my Russian peasant bright orange tutu, lost her balance and knocked over the whole line of little...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 11, 20123 min read
Back to the Drawing Board: Everyday Magic, Day 477
I took drawing classes (for kids) at Brooklyn College when I was about 7, studied painting with someone in our suburban New Jersey...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20122 min read
Why I Won’t See Scary or Disturbing Movies (Except If They’re About the Holocaust): Ever
Last night, Ken and Natalie were astonished that I refused to watch “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” with them, although I’ve been conveying...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 3, 20122 min read
Poem for Ken Irby: Everyday Magic, Day 439
Poem for Ken Irby And the clearing, if it is clearing, from the North comes on in the brain like running out barefoot in it as fast as...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 7, 20112 min read
Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas Marches With the Zombies: Everyday Magic, Day 421
Our friends Rachel & Jonathan out for an autumnal stroll “Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20112 min read
Porubsky's in Real and Reel Life: Everyday Magic, Day 406
My days of first getting to know and fall and in love with Ken were entwined with frequent trips to this part of the world to check on...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 9, 20112 min read
News of My Demise Is Greatly Exagerated: Everyday Magic, Day 389
Well, I’m still poet laureate, and as I’ve written before, I still plan to finish my term, which ends next July, and to pass on this post...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20112 min read
In Memory of Peter Berg & Celebration of Real Time: Everyday Magic, Day 384
Peter at the Texas bioregional gathering in 1992 “We didn’t play it for the Big Time. We didn’t play it for the Small Time. We played it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20113 min read
How Much Love We Can Show Together, From Kansas To Norway: Everyday Magic, Day 378
When bad things happen -- whether at the personal, community, state, national or world level -- how we rise up again comes down to coming...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20112 min read
Why I Keep Seeing "Buck": Everyday Magic, Day 376
Okay, so seeing one m Despite not growing up on a horse or near them very much, I love “Buck” — the documentary based on the real horse...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20112 min read
Why Poetry Matters: Everyday Magic, Day 371
When it was mentioned in a newspaper article that the poet laureate read a poem at a rally, someone remarked sarcastically, “Yeah,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 21, 20112 min read
Remembering How NFTY Saved My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 369
NFTY — the National Federation of Temple Youth — was the national organization that helped fuel youth groups of reform Jewish synagogues,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20112 min read
"These Are the Best Days of Our Lives": Everyday Magic, Day 362
Kelley's new album, which features this song (and we co-wrote 8 of the 12 songs). Click here to buy the album. Last night, right in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 9, 20112 min read
In Memory of Clarence Clemons: Everyday Magic, Day 355
Both Clemons and Springsteen tell the story of how they met: Bruce was playing a club in Asbury Park when Clemons came to check out this...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 20, 20112 min read
Supercell in Poetry & Video: Everyday Magic, Day 344
As Stephen Locke an Supercell for Stephen Did you think your life was straight as this road, something that could be time-lapsed into a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20111 min read
Strange Days Indeed: Everyday Magic, Days 339-340
The storms have settled down here…..at least a little……at least for a moment, but that anything-can-happen feel permeates everything from...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 3, 20112 min read
Ad Astra per Aspera and the Kansas Arts: Everyday Magic, Day 334
Ad Astra per Aspera: That’s the Kansas state motto, “to the stars, through difficulty.” It’s also the motto for any artist, writer,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 28, 20113 min read
What Is Wrong With This Picture, and Will the Real Kansans Please Stand Up?: Everyday Magic, Day 296
Today I felt like I was punched in the stomach when I read the news: the governor put on administrative leave the five employees of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 11, 20112 min read
Finding Our Cardboard Totem Animals: Everyday Magic, Days 287-88
Friday, I had one of the quintessential Lawrence nights out, wandering downtown on a perfect spring evening with Ken, Anne and Bruce,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20111 min read
The Language of Art: Everyday Magic, Days 224-225
With Llewellyn Crain, the visionary and hard-working Kansas Arts Commission executive director Last night, along with about 400 other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20113 min read
