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After the Party: Everyday Magic, Day 336
Like many people, we love holding parties for for the parties, but also for that clean and open breeze they bring to us after everyone is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 30, 20111 min read
The Girl and the Luna Moth: Everyday Magic, Day 289
When Natalie was 10, our friend Coco took a beautiful picture of her with a lunar moth on her birthday, April 28, which happens to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 5, 20111 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
I Love Lilac: Everyday Magic, Days 280-281
There are days that vanish too quickly, particularly many days populating the month of April when there are floral explosions so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 28, 20111 min read
It's Its, Not It's: Everyday Magic, Day 271
Okay, at the risk of being a grammar Nazi, please forgive me: It drives me crazy when I see it’s when it should be its and visa-versa....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20111 min read
Why Passover Is Christmas, My Birthday & A Broadway Musical All Rolled Up Into One Meal: Everyd
Last year south of the Wakarusa Take your light-encrusted pine trees, bright birthday bows on mystery packages and belting out...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 18, 20113 min read
Lightning Bolt In Rearview Mirror: Everyday Magic, Day 267
I kept driving, but told myself about the storm as well as about the big bright green, alighting on every branch except for those ones...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20111 min read
What Not To Think About When Trying to Fall Asleep: Everyday Magic, Day 266
Here’s a partial list: If it’s worth waking up early and making gluten-free pancakes from scratch. How many cars I’ve owned in my life....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 13, 20111 min read
What IS On My Mind?: The Lunacy of Spring Fever: Everyday Magic, Day 265
Not much evidently. It's a crisp day interspersed with big wind gusts, heartbreaking bright, pale green all directions, and the explosion...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 11, 20111 min read
Homesickness & The Squeaky Swing Bird: Everyday Magic, Day 259
Back to my room mid-morning after a wonderful meeting with students, I lay on the bed, trying to power-nap myself back to full...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 6, 20111 min read
What Kind of Kitchen Appliance Would You Be?: Everyday Magic, Day 256
Staying up last night in the faculty dorm at Goddard, I trotted out my proverbial party question, one that only draws groans from the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 3, 20111 min read
The Miracle of Coffee: Everyday Magic, Day 255
I used to be a tea person, but after a naturopath told me to take a break from black tea, assuring me coffee was fine, my little...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 2, 20111 min read
Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254
The snow’s job is to fall steady and thick all night and all day. The sky’s job is to let it. Meanwhile, my job is to talk with BFA...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 1, 20111 min read
Will This Winter Never End?: Everyday Magic, Day 252
Dear Winter, I’ve had it with you. Not that I don’t love your snowy fields of peace and pizzazz in late December, the wicked winds that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 30, 20111 min read
Depressing Day & Astonishing (Virtual) Aurora Borealis: Everyday Magic, Day 251
This long, fast-moving time-lapses video in the borderlands between Norway and Russia shows dazzling arrays of stars as green waves shoot...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20111 min read
Rock Chalk Please Hawk: Everyday Magic, Day 249
“The game starts at 1:20,” I told Ken, who burst out laughing. “Now, when you know when the game starts, I know it’s everyday knowledge.”...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20111 min read
Happiness: Everyday Magic, Day 245
The cold front powered through, the abnormal summer weather gave way to true spring, and the days of persistent sinus/ear/whatever pain...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20111 min read
How Can You Not Love Kansas Basketball?: Everyday Magic, Day 241
It’s overwhelmingly thrilling. It’s astonishingly sweet, even the losses. It’s dramatic as all get-out, and you get to see people fly. So...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20112 min read
The Entertainment Value of Bad Food: Everyday Magic, Day 240
It looked like cat food. It smelled worse. “Try just a taste,” Ken said, and so I did. It was more horrible than I imagined. We were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20111 min read
Fog Day: Everyday Magic, Day 230
I don’t function well in fog, the blurring of sky and earth and pressure of the air something I feel inside as well as all around me. It...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 9, 20111 min read
