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Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?: Everyday Magic, Day 1070
Time continually befuddles me, so much so that my last book of poetry was called How Time Moves, and I’m still deep in the muck of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 12, 20223 min read
The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055
Sometimes I feel like I’m at a sudden still point between waves of motion and change. Like right now as I sit in a floral chair in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20222 min read
“Life Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031
“This is probably the last time we’ll be able to do this,” we nervously joked with each other a year ago. We were friends, gathered at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20213 min read
A Year From Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1014
A year ago, driving a mountain cabin to Denver to see old friends, we had no idea. It just seemed that life would go on like this with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20203 min read
What is a Year?: Everyday Magic, Day 1009
A year ago, I was positively radioactive. On June 14, I had surgery to insert a tiny gold disk of radioactive pellets in my right eye,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 17, 20202 min read
A Letter From the Post-Pandemic Future: Everyday Magic, Day 1004
Dear You, Yes, I hear you knocking on my door at all hours of the day and especially night, calling me out of my sleep because you’re not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20205 min read
Are We All Just Dust in the Wind?: Everyday Magic, Day 995
That’s the question I kept asking myself as I replayed “Dust in the Wind” on my quickly-wearing-out but relatively new copy of Point of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 30, 20202 min read
Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981
Arm-in-arm, Vicky, Eduardo, Ralph, and I walked down the snowy country road, belting out “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and doing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20194 min read
A Lightening Up: Everyday Magic, Day 967
Daylight Savings Time, beside being a kick that keeps kicking our sleeping patterns for a while, heralds a kind of lightening up,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 10, 20192 min read
In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962
I can’t remember when I first encountered Oliver’s poetry, but I know this: it wasn’t when I was doing a PhD in poetry despite my comps...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20194 min read
I’m in Love With a Great Lake: Everyday Magic, Day 946
I’m in love with Lake Superior, and the more I visit, the deeper I fall. Not only is this the greatest of the Great Lakes, containing 10%...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20183 min read
Equinox Quirks in East Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 933
Nothing like a brisk walk on the first day of spring in East Lawrence with a good friend. Along the way, we saw many more friendly sites,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20181 min read
First Lightning of the New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 925
The thunder comes rumbles to east, the lightning flashes irregularly in the southwest corner of my window, and the air is full. I open...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20181 min read
The Peace of a Late Autumn Day: Everyday Magic, Day 916
One of my and maybe your ongoing problems with fall as well as spring — especially in these regions where we have four distinct seasons —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 17, 20172 min read
Ocean View to Porch View: Everyday Magic, Day 868
Yesterday morning, I walked acros This morning, I walked to my front porch, put my feet up, and stared into the Osage Orange tree and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20161 min read
A Tale of (at Least) Two Quilts: Everyday Magic 894
I started the bright blue quilt with the crazy quilt squares — controlled chaos is how I see this design glimpsed and phone-photoed from...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 9, 20162 min read
A Year of Reunions: Everyday Magic, Day 882
In the arms and lap of Suzanne, one of my oldest friends Stay around long enough, and you’ll meet yourself and everyone else you love...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20154 min read
30th Anniversary for the Royals and for Us: Everyday Magic, Day 871
Of course, there’s huge differences. Marriage is not about winners and losers, unless that marriage is not really all about marriage....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20153 min read
What Is a Year?: Everyday Magic, Day 833
If 2014 was a mouse, I’d let my cats kill it, and then I would, like I do with all their usual triumphs, pick it up by the tip of its...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20143 min read
Maggie, the Heartbeat of What It Means to Be Alive: Everyday Magic, Day 796
Although I didn’t know Maggie for decades or pal around big-time for her, whenever I saw her, we got right down to it: cancer (first...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 9, 20142 min read
