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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 8, 20142 min read
Can’t Get There From Here: The Outrageous Traffic Catch-22 of Lawrence, KS: Everyday Magic, Da
This is kind of understandable although not a happy thing: we still have, or at least had, Iowa St. to the west of us only now Iowa is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20142 min read
Finishing the Last Poem for Chasing Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 794
As a poet, I’m not used to writing a body of poems on deadline although there have been plenty of times I’m pushing and praying through a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20141 min read
The Winter That Could Not End: Everyday Magic, Day 789
Adding to my winter kvetching has been a five-day virus, just now ebbing after nights of making me shiver so much that piles of down...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 18, 20141 min read
Sparkling Night Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 787
The daytime snow doesn’t glitter like the nighttime snow, but it’s ruffled with ridges Tonight as I walked from the center of campus to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20141 min read
The Oncoming-Snow Drive for Groceries: Everyday Magic, Day 783
The woman in front of me turned when she had all her food on the conveyer belt and said, “I don’t know why I even bought this much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20131 min read
Last Days of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 755
“There’s something very special about this week after Christmas and before the new year,” Anne told me today as she, Natalie and I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 8, 20131 min read
Driving Through the First Winter Snow of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 750
The darkness is soft and vast, cold and blurred at its edges, and seemingly encompassing everything. I drive down the long road linking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20131 min read
A Quiet Moment in the Morning: Everyday Magic, Day 746
Again, the dogs and cat sleep, some curled into a ball on worn-out cushions, others stretched on sofa arms in the sun. The light, caught...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 19, 20131 min read
A View of the Full Moon From the Almost-Home: Everyday Magic, Day 741
Over 20 years ago, pre-radio tower and pre-housing development, I spent hours in this very field, figuring out my kitchen view of the sky...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20131 min read
A Spin of the Seasonal Wheel: Everyday Magic, Day 737
When the world is like this, I feel both like doing everything (make a quilt! paint a room! make hot cocoa from scratch! clean a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 24, 20131 min read
In Praise of the Equinox and Other Thresholds: Everyday Magic, Day 735
Today, just a little past the equinox and into the true north of fall, I sit on the porch in the comfort of a sweater while the wind...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 15, 20131 min read
Go, Thunder, Go!: Everyday Magic, Day 734
Our house is encased in the sound of rain, punctuated by bouts of thunder as the windows flash around us. I’m in ecstasy. After a long...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 3, 20131 min read
Last Outdoor Swim of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 731
Over the hour of my slow journey that took me back to where I started, the sun lowered behind the trees, Victorian houses and bungalows...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20131 min read
The Real Summer Finally Shows Up, But Who Can Complain?: Everyday Magic, Day 727
Last summer, by this point in August, the temperature dropped to highs in the mid-90s, and we dropped to our knees in gratitude. That’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 30, 20131 min read
Falling in Love with Kansas Skies All Over Again: Everyday Magic, Day 706
It happens all the time. It happens every so often. I go outside or, while driving, turn a corner, and I meet the sky. On a spring day in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20132 min read
Brave Voice’s Round Rainbow: Everyday Magic, Day 703
A round rainbow is called a glory. What you survive in life is called a story. You only see the arc of it after the storm. To see the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 3, 20132 min read
Remembering Walter Butts: Everyday Magic, Day 690
NH Poets Laureate from left Dave Parson (TX), JoAnn Balingit (DE), Bruce Dethlefsen (WI), Lisa Starr (RI), Walter Butts (NH) Dick Allen...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 26, 20132 min read
Drive, Hives & Still Alive: Everyday Magic, Day 689
Snow drifts on the drive were twice this high That was yesterday, which included getting the van stuck in dog-high snow drifts, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20131 min read
Blizzard of Oz, Take Three: Everyday Magic, Day 688
For years, we had so little snow here, or only one big storm in a season leaving a mere third or half a foot behind. While there have...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20132 min read
Surprises Between the Surprise Snow & the Expected Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 686
Hard to see, but surprise snow is falling thick through the windows of Signs of Life, a bookstore/cafe where I hang out Yesterday it was...
