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In-Between Time: Everyday Magic, Day 929
Yesterday was an in-between day taken up with driving, flying, walking long underground vortexes of color and sound, flying some more,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20182 min read
The Secret Lives of Old Quilt Tops: Everyday Magic, Day 927
Years ago, I fell in love with a massive quilt of stars hand-sewn by an old woman at her garage sale. “It’s made from those cloth sacks...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Losing and Finding My C’hai (Which is Not a Dala Horse): Everyday Magic, Day 915
At breakfast at the Swedish Country Inn in Lindsborg, Kansas, someone said she liked my tiny gold Dala horse necklace. It took me a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 9, 20172 min read
An Expansive Kansas Road Trip in a Concise Time: Everyday Magic, Day 910
Kansas Humanities Council talk on wild weather in poetry, photography and our lives at one of the great community jewels-of-a-library,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 6, 20172 min read
Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894
Photo by Stephen Locke, used with permission The kids were already in the front seats when I arrived at the Coffey County Library branch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20173 min read
On the Cusp of a Vacation: Everyday Magic, Day 873
The bed is covered in piles of clothes, the hungry suitcases are chomping at the bit, and I’m eager to clean out the car. There’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 15, 20162 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
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
Becoming a Parent Is Not What You Think: Everyday Magic, Day 865
Daniel with his grandmothers 27 years ago today, I was in labor at the with my first child at Topeka’s Birth and Women’s Health Center....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 7, 20163 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 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 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
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
Time-Travel into Fall: Everyday Magic, Day 870
Over the last month, I've been time-travelling backwards through fall. I started October in Vermont, where the temperatures lingered in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20152 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
A Perfect Travel Day: Everyday Magic, Day 863
Goodbye, Vermont! I travel a lot. Consequently, a lot of things that go could go wrong do go wrong: three-day stints flying from Vermont...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20152 min read
The Melancholy Before Leaving: Everyday Magic, Day 860
Nothing like packing a suitcase to make me wish that suitcase wasn’t leaving the house. That pre-trip sadness, lyrical enough to be...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20152 min read
A Town That Changed My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 859
With old friends, from left, Steve, Dave, and John There was a moment in 1981 when I was driving from Columbia, Missouri to Kansas City,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 19, 20153 min read
Brooklynisms, Lower-Manhattanisms, and Other Things Heard on the Street: Everyday Magic, Day 852
Roaming around Brooklyn and the city for about five days yields not just astonishing things to behold (two Chinese multi-generational...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 9, 20152 min read
