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First Morning Back: Everyday Magic, Day 386
I didn’t go to sleep until well into the first morning back, the combination of 11 hours of planes, taxis, cars and long walkways...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 13, 20112 min read
At the Cusp Between Worlds: Everyday Magic, Day 385
There’s been a lot of humidity and humility, a big thunder bolt (or two), many rehearsals for “Riverdance,” which some of us faculty...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 12, 20111 min read
Doors Of New York & Other Entryways To Other Dimensions: Everyday Magic, Day 381
We stepped out of the hotel a few days ago, glanced at a door together, and Lauren and I looked at each other, each pulling out a camera....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 3, 20112 min read
Weather Guilt & The Weather To Come: Everyday Magic, Day 380
I'm in a dorm room in Vermont with the windows open. It's 62 degrees. Fellow Kansans as well as inhabitants of Death Valley (although...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 2, 20111 min read
I'm Walking, Yes Indeed: Everyday Magic, Day 379
Forest at Artie's Deli So once again it’s New York City, and once again, it’s a walking marathon-frenzy-delight, this time with my sister...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 30, 20112 min read
The End of the Vacation: Everyday Magic, Day 358
From the 14th floor of the hotel in downtown St. Paul, my family and I watch an obscure documentary on Russia after the Soviet Union...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 3, 20111 min read
The Day Before the Big Adventure: Everyday Magic, Day 357
We're not going here The breeze is cool, the sky bright and the van back hatch open. Inside the house, there’s boxes of food and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 23, 20112 min read
When Iowa is Heaven: Everyday Magic, Day 282
Iowa has a rap for being heaven just like Kansas is forever wed to The Wizard of Oz (as the opposite of Oz). Although I traveled Iowa a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 28, 20112 min read
Travel and Non-Ordinary Reality: Every Magic, Days 276-277
Yes, Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City actually had a section called "Non-Ordinary Reality." While it mostly had books about...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 24, 20112 min read
Old Friends, New Friends & Book Friends: Everyday Magic, Days 274-275
Sitting in the cafe upstairs in Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, I feel comforted by the richness of old, new and book friends to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 22, 20111 min read
Living in the Pink Room of the In-Between: Everyday Magic, Day 273
In between home and where I'm going, I have landed in a very pink room where a suspiciously calm (but sneaky-eyed) Victorian girl stares...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 20, 20112 min read
Driving Nowhere In The Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 260
When I say I drove nowhere in the dark last night, I'm not talking metaphorically, or at least not just. I got in the car, thinking I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 7, 20111 min read
I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore, Toto….Or Are We?: Everyday Magic, Day 253
The call came at 4 p.m. yesterday: would I jump on a plane today and come back to Vermont to teach in Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20112 min read
Snow to Snow Travel, Night Clouds & Snow Fog: Everyday Magic, Day 219
What I left: Goddard College yesterday Close to 3:30 Vermont time, I walked into my home after a somewhat harrowing 30 mph drive on...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 25, 20111 min read
Suspended Animation in Cleveland: Everyday Magic, Days 217-218
Cleveland, nothing against you, but I don’t really know you, and sitting in this airport for hours isn’t helping the matter. I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20112 min read
After Falling Down the Rabbit Hole: Everyday Magic, Day 215
Residencies make their own magic, and I would even say their own reality except this reality is quite real: what happens here is a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 20, 20111 min read
Sweet Dreams from Vermont: Everyday Magic, Day 211
Dark fills the windows, wind calls around us, and the wood stove in the basement sends up and out its steady hot breath. I listen to the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20111 min read
From the Mountains to the Ocean and Back Again: Two Deaths in One Week, and a Whole Lot of Hats
A week ago, we hit the road to attend the memorial service for Woody (who I wrote about in Dec. on this blog), our very dear and beloved...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 6, 20083 min read
On Swanky Hotels and the Habitat of Being in Motion
I write this from the 12th floor of the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis.Outside, I can see other swanky hotels, apartment buildings, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 3, 20083 min read
