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“Green Light is All the Heart Believes”: Everyday Magic, Day 685
I love this color beyond its obvious symbolism as the talisman of new beginnings; pale green is exceedingly calm (is that why so many...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 18, 20131 min read
At Sea: Everyday Magic, Day 656
Cruise ships are a particularly bizarre way to be at sea because the agenda here seems more focused on being a luxury resort where all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20122 min read
Winter on the Heels of Summer: Everyday Magic, Day 646
Saturday was balmy, followed by a night of high winds that knocked the leaves off the native trees. Sunday the switch was thrown, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20122 min read
A Jersey Girl Thinks About the Shore: Everyday Magic, Day 643
Long Beach Island When you grow up where I did, when the temperature or boredom rises, you head to the shore, 20-40 minutes away...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 1, 20122 min read
Thinking About New Jersey & New York: Everyday Magic, Day 642
A week ago, we drove with ease across Monmouth County in central New Jersey, and then back again before foraying out another direction...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20122 min read
Almost Twilight, Almost Cold Front, Almost Debate Time: Everyday Magic, Day 630
I’ve been working on the porch all afternoon, the impossibly blue sky highlighting the wind-blown lit green of the leaves. The wind has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 3, 20122 min read
It Seemed Like Summer Would Never End (and I Don’t Mean That In a Good Way): Everyday Magic, D
Now we’re on the other end of summer, and although the drought set up house for the long term, signs of autumn abound. I’ve never felt so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 28, 20121 min read
Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621
Hanging out with Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books in Wichita, and mutually admiring Katherine Towler’s great anthology GOD IN THE...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20122 min read
Hotter Than Hell & 20 More Diversions: Everyday Magic, Day 606
When you step outside at 9 a.m., and it’s already too hot to be out, it’s hard to sink into weather-induced self-pity, punctuated by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 29, 20122 min read
Cantaloupe, Iced Coffee & An Hour on the Deck: Everyday Magic, Day 603
The heaviness and lightness of life braid with my own life. Last night, I facilitated a writing workshop in Kansas City for people living...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 24, 20121 min read
A 30-Year Reunion, Workshop & Reading, and Dead Bird (All in a Day’s Work): Everyday Magi
Yesterday, Ken and I drove west for 2.5 hours to beautiful Salina, Kansas. Never mind that it was 106 degrees (if we stopped doing things...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 22, 20122 min read
One Moment in the Climate Crisis: Everyday Magic, Day 602
When I think of the weather lately — hard not to do when the reality behind and forecast ahead is triple-digit days up one side and down...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 20, 20122 min read
Rain Is The New Sexy: Everyday Magic, Day 600
It’s been decayed-bone-dry here. Stepping outside either means entering a giant sauna or being battered around in a giant dryer...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 19, 20122 min read
My Hottest Writing: A Retrospective: Everyday Magic, Day 599
Turkeys in our field vying for what shade they can find Everyday I start to write about the heat, I realize what I’m prone to say has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20121 min read
Wishing the Water: Everyday Magic, Day 595
Another big storm coming to the big lake When I told my mother-in-law that Minnesota’s north shore received 200% of its average rainfall,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 9, 20122 min read
Weather Forcasts For People Losing Their Minds Because of the Heat: Everyday Magic, Day 592
Breezy? REALLY? I just looked at the weather report, and for Wednesday, and on one website I saw “103 degrees. Breezy” and on another,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20122 min read
The Dog Days of Summer Are Barking Loud & Early: Everyday Magic, Day 590
When I first moved to Kansas, people told me that the weather — especially the summers — build character. But the way this weather builds...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 25, 20121 min read
360 Degree Beauty: Everyday Magic, Day 535
97 tornadoes later, what a difference a day makes. Although my heart is heavy for those suffering loss of home and place throughout...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20122 min read
Awaiting the Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 534
For the last day and a half most Kansans have been watching the weather like a vulture watches roadkill. Storms are coming and are...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 14, 20122 min read
Lighting a Big Field On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 526
Would we burn the whole field before the rain and lightning came? It was hard to tell, and we almost stopped several times, but then we...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20122 min read
