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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 16, 20171 min read
Tucked into the Clouds: Everyday Magic, Day 888
But what there is: a dog napping on the couch behind Christmas lights adorning shelves for the cats to climb and sleep on, skillet corn...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 19, 20161 min read
Right Before the Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 869
The sky is steely blue and getting steelier as the silver-gray of the coming storm flushes the expanse from horizon on up. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 24, 20161 min read
Insomnia with Stars, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning Bugs: Everyday Magic, Day 866
There’s something to said for seeing in the dark especially when the first rain in weeks makes both a dramatic and gentle entrance,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20163 min read
Charles Is A Force of Nature: Everyday Magic, Day 862
Charles was one of the first Lawrencians I ever met, in about 1981 when I was a member of the Kansas City Sufi community, where Charles...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20162 min read
Yup, It’s Hot Out, But It’s Also Kind of Lovely: Everyday Magic, Day 861
It’s hot, and it will be hot for the foreseeable future with highs in the 90s through most of the rest of June. Then it turns July, when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 31, 20161 min read
The Growing Pains of Wild and Woolly Too-Muchness: Everyday Magic, Day 859
This Memorial Day weekend, I wrote and revised an obituary and memorial service after meeting with my friend’s family, organized some of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20161 min read
Just Another Kansas Night Cleaning the Basement and Tracking Tornadoes: Everyday (and night) Magic,
It’s been a whirl of excessive humidity, insomnia, drawings of monsters from another planet, long-track tornadoes, and rusted ice cream...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20162 min read
The Wild Weather of Dying: Everyday Magic, Day 892
For the last 11 days, my family’s life has been wrapped around the last phase of my mother-in-law’s life, first in the hospital, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 12, 20153 min read
Why Would Anyone Leave Lawrence, Kansas?: Everyday Magic, Day 869
Last night I dreamed that we had just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where our oldest son now lives, because Ken got a kick-ass job...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20152 min read
An Abundance of Cicadas, Hackberry Butterflies, and Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 853
So much comes so thick and fast sometimes, like this June when the 17-year cicadas hatched at the same time as the unleashing of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20151 min read
Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 839
Meanwhile, there is the need to get from Point A to Point B, which required vast planning and exact execution of many layers of clothing,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 8, 20152 min read
Stomping Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 838
How close to the house? Very. I wanted to eat pizza with friends. Instead, I stomped fire. Maybe that’s a strong narrative thread in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20152 min read
Back to the Pool, Whining All the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 837
I wanted to go. I didn’t want to go. I figured I might, but probably wouldn’t, yet just in case, I tossed the bathing suit and towel in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20143 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 14, 20144 min read
Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829
Jerry with me shortly after I finished chemo in 2002 When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, I discovered what many already know...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 10, 20142 min read
The Astonishing Beauty of the Last Drop of Autumn: Everyday Magic, Day 824
There's something about this afternoon: the autumn colors still brilliant, maybe even more brilliant than usual against the backdrop of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 1, 20142 min read
The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819
There’s nothing like listening to Wagner while lightning illuminates a vast, dark grey monster you’re driving right into at highway...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 2, 20142 min read
Northerning: Everyday Magic, Day 815
Hello, my name is Lake Michigan Usually summer aims me west, the direction any self-respecting Kansan wants to go when the temperatures...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20142 min read
A Good Rain in a Time of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 814
I’m sitting in the middle of my screened-in-porch while thunders roars to my east, and wind swooshes from my west. The sound of the rain...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20142 min read
Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811
As a kid, I lived on my bike, a daily ritual of pouring down the hill where I lived or trudging back up when it was time to go home. My...
