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Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912
I’m perched on this lovely porch on the last day of the year, at least the last day according to the Jewish year, which ends at sundown....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 20173 min read
Endings and Beginnings at Midnight: Everyday Magic, Day 906
It is 12:04 a.m., and I”m writing this from our back deck where I sit cross-legged in a chair and stare up at two enormous trees. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 12, 20172 min read
Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam!: Everyday Magic, Day 902
While the buffalo didn’t arrive, getting to share the news on Facebook, not nearly as exciting as getting a small herd, did have it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20171 min read
Calicoco, the Flying Ninja Cat, or Why You Shouldn't Put a Feral Kitty in Your Bathroom: Everyd
There’s white fur on the bathroom mirror, bath curtain rod, and bedroom windows from Calicoco, the feral cat I stupidly thought I could...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 16, 20174 min read
Beyond the Dark Tunnel of Mid-December: Everyday Magic, Day 881
As a kid, I dreaded the stretch between New Jersey and New York City when our family station wagon would descend into the underworld,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20162 min read
A Beautiful Moment in a Time of Despair: Everyday Magic, Day 876
As I turn away from the news of collapsing politics and ecology, I also see this: the sky to the west is filling with clouds, the wind is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20161 min read
A Charm of Teenager Hummingbirds: Everyday Magic, Day 872
A bunch of hummingbirds is called a charm, a delight and an adornment, and for the last few months, I’ve been blessed to have my view...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 10, 20162 min read
Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860
Celebrating Claudia’s birthday at the concert with Michel Loomis Listening to the astonishingly spirited Claudia Schmidt perform a house...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20164 min read
Digging into What’s Mine to Chill Out the Fixer-Bee: Everyday Magic 856
In the past week, because I was on a mini vacation (when the shit always seems to especially hit the fan), I kept bumping into my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 5, 20162 min read
The Light, the Dark, and a Road Trip to Western Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 890
I first presented the book to the marvelous Pioneer Memorial Library, which brought together close to 80 people in the basement for lunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20162 min read
A Traveling Water Ritual: Everyday Magic, Day 888
At the Kansas Area Watershed Council, we regularly have a water ritual. Standing in a circle around some springtime prairie plants in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20162 min read
Generations: Everyday Magic, Day 884
Columbia was where we met in college, or more to the point, because of what we did in our many non-college hours: potlucks with too much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20162 min read
A Wonder Made of Time and Staying Put: Everyday Magic, Day 883
A few days later, while wandering through the Merc to get a crapload of delicacies for friends facing serious medical woo-hah, I ran into...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 13, 20163 min read
Karma, a Disgruntled Cat, and the Bob-Tailed Squirrel: Everyday Magic, Day 881
If the windows are Cat TV, the squirrel was a daily reality show designed to inflame cat desires and piss them off. As such, it had high...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 19, 20152 min read
When the Ocean is There, Jump In: Everyday Magic, Day 875
Living in Kansas, where both swimming in salt water, let alone oceans, and seeing dolphins (which I saw both days) is usually something...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20152 min read
Why Would Anyone Leave Lawrence, Kansas?: Everyday Magic, Day 869
Last night I dreamed that we had just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where our oldest son now lives, because Ken got a kick-ass job...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 12, 20153 min read
Grateful to Be Back On the Old Road Home: Everyday Magic, Day 867
Last night, instead of going west to the new route home, I turned left, following a line of cars down a new road without being sure if I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 26, 20152 min read
Three Rattlesnakes and Three Kids Gone: Everyday Magic, Day 865
On one hand, all is good. My heart is full and calm this morning as a hidden pond as I sit on the porch surrounded by soft rain, cats and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20151 min read
Pairs of Rattlesnakes, Kayaks, and Beloveds: Everyday Magic, Day 856
Mr. Rattlesnake just hanging in his pillow case (outside of course) before moving to his new home. It was a weekend of unlikely pairs....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 5, 20153 min read
Stomping Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 838
How close to the house? Very. I wanted to eat pizza with friends. Instead, I stomped fire. Maybe that’s a strong narrative thread in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 8, 20152 min read
