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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 3, 20121 min read
Still Life With Sleeping Animals: Everday Magic, Day 559
Marvin Gaye sings “Mercy, Mercy Me,” the rain falls, and the animals sleep on this long Sunday morning, longer than usual because for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20121 min read
Attack of the Mayflies: Everyday Magic, Day 554
The mayflies are here, and they mean business. Add together a non-winter and a long, wet spring, and you get what we’ve got in our house:...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20125 min read
How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545
One of our early campouts. See if you can find Ken and me. I was 22, living in Kansas City, completely fed-up with the world of dating in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20121 min read
The Warped Joy of Cleaning the Stove: Everyday Magic, Day 538
I chose a white stove several years ago when the third of a series of used stoves we bought, hauled in, and used for a while joined that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 17, 20122 min read
Driving the Dark Backroad Home: Everyday Magic, Day 536
Leaving Kansas City tonight, where I gave a poetry reading, I headed west on 87th Street, first missing the turn onto I-35 and then...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20122 min read
The Inadvertent Rube Goldberg Contraptions of My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 531
Last night, I noticed that although Rube Goldberg’s descendants never claimed me as a relative, maybe I should claim them. This insight...