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What the Heat is Driving Us To: Everyday Magic, Day 593
Today’s high: 107. Strange things happen when the temperature lingers here, such as these moments. At Target, where we went to get our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 28, 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
Jun 3, 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 24, 20121 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
May 3, 20125 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 20, 20121 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 17, 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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20122 min read
Ronda, Grandma Barb and the Long Way Home: A Miracle of Poetry: Everyday Magic, Day 525
Why the poetry caravan went to St. Francis for a reading had everything to do with one of the town’s prodigal daughters, Ronda Miller....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20122 min read
The Wild West Poetry Channel: Everyday Magic, Day 524
“Hunters skinning animals in their room should ask for black plastic bag,” read the sign in the motel Ronda decided we best not stay at,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20122 min read
The Prodigal Dog Returns and Brings with Him All Joy: Everyday Magic, Day 522
The phone rang right after Kelley and I finished our sushi and tempura on this rainy Tuesday. “I better get this. It could be about the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20122 min read
Hankering for Shay to Sashay Home: Everyday Magic, Day 519
Shay vanished while Ken was with him on the hill in the woods today. Ken turned his back, and the dog, who had been following a scent in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 17, 20121 min read
Naming the Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 516
Natalie with Miyako when she was still a kitten The old story goes that Eve named the animals, but we know better when it comes to what...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 12, 20122 min read
Leader of the Pack: Everyday Magic, Day 514
One dog, and you’re a person with a dog. Two dogs, and you’re part of the pack. I’ve been learning this vividly since Shay moved in with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 9, 20122 min read
The Complexity of Kindness: Everyday Magic, Day 511
“It’s because you’re trying to be a good person,” a friend told me when I said I must have been an idiot to call back someone looking for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20123 min read
Davy Jones: RIP, My First (Kinda, Sorta) True Love: Everyday Magic, Day 510
The Monkees hit their peak at the exact point that the pre-teen hormones overtook my little person. I say “little” because I was small...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 3, 20122 min read
Trying to Find a Moment of Calm in Air-Travel-Hell: Everyday Magic, 505
Maybe hell is too strong a word, I told myself, but after the last update (“We don’t know if the plane will go out, and if not, there are...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20121 min read
A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a place for the curious, eccentric and more-than-easily amused. So...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20122 min read
Prayer Balloons: Everyday Magic, Day 496
When our family was in a terrible car accident, and Forest was life-flighted to the children’s hospital, after his miraculous recovery,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20121 min read
Imagining Time Travel to Columbia, Missouri: Everyday Magic, Day 495
I just booked a night in a B & B on University Avenue in Columbia, Missouri, on the same block where I once lived 32 years ago. Thanks to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 8, 20123 min read
Easily Amused: Everyday Magic, Day 494
Many years ago, my first boyfriend told me I was “easily amused,” which is true, and as it turns out, becoming truer as I age. The bar...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20122 min read
