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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 18, 20131 min read
“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
Dec 9, 20122 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
Nov 13, 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 1, 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
Oct 31, 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 3, 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
Sep 28, 20121 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 1, 20122 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
Jul 29, 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 24, 20121 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 22, 20122 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 20, 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 19, 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 18, 20121 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 9, 20122 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
Jun 26, 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 25, 20121 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
Apr 15, 20122 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 14, 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
Mar 29, 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...
