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10 Perfect Things: Everyday Magic, Day 521
10 a.m. in the Checkers (supermarket for you out-of-towners) parking lot, I saw a man surely in his 70s or older carrying a one-year-old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20121 min read
Magnolia Tour 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 518
Every year, they explode open too fast only to be killed by some midnight frost that comes in mid March. Most years, I tell myself I will...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20122 min read
Big Wind, Big Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 513
All night, the big wind blows. At times, the whole house seems to lift a little as the wind finds its way through every slat and crack....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20121 min read
Tornado Warning!: Everyday Magic, Day 509
It’s after midnight, and my heart is still wide awake, set in racer action by the very sudden tornado warning that propelled our family,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 29, 20122 min read
Dwelling in Uncertainty & Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 504
The view from my office on the cusp of the incoming storm When is it most difficult to dwell in uncertainty? When you’re exhausted and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 23, 20122 min read
Winter’s Coming, and Boy, Is She Pissed!: Everyday Magic, Day 498
The sky looks angry, and for good reason. Winter, on route to us since December, got mighty lost on the way and ended up in Budapest by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20121 min read
Still Swaying After All These Years, or How I Came to Love Cruises: Everyday Magic, Day 452
Today, awake in Kansas where a light snow has dusted the ground, I’m sitting still and yet not so still. The ocean moves inside me....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 6, 20112 min read
Thanksgiving for the Obvious Beyond the Obvious: Everyday Magic, Day 447
Thanksgiving, Forgiving, Thanks for Giving: It all comes together this time of the year, just on the cusp of the shortening of days and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 23, 20112 min read
Into the Woods and Back Out Again: Everyday Magic, Day 441
Every year, we go into the woods at Shantivanam in Easten, Kansas for a little retreat. We usually go in overlapping shifts, me hauling...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20111 min read
Winter’s Back in Town, Baby!: Everyday Magic, Day 435
As my friend and good writer Cheryl Unruh wrote, “The warmth that has lingered in September and October gave Kansans a second chance at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20112 min read
When Humans Make Places Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 425
An hour or so west (“Everything in New Hampshire is an hour away from everything else,” George tells me), I get to the elevator in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 14, 20111 min read
Eden of Autumn in Iowa: Everyday Magic, Day 413
When I confirmed plans to join a bookclub for a light dinner in Iowa on the way to see Natalie in St. Paul, I wasn't expecting more than...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 18, 20112 min read
Game-Changer Day: Everyday Magic, Day 411
Suddenly, it’s cold out. How is this possible? my stunned body asks. It’s been hot for so long that I was astonished to find, when trying...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 14, 20111 min read
Sleeping Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 410
I went out there because I didn’t want to miss sleeping outside before it gets cold although, given the summer we had, it’s still hard to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 13, 20111 min read
If You Can't Stand the Heat But Won't Leave the Kitchen: Everyday Magic, Day 397
The kitchen in this case is Kansas, and although I won’t leave, I kind of can’t stand the heat anymore. After a few days in the high 80s,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 31, 20111 min read
Watching Hurricane Irene Through the Window of the Computer: Everyday Magic, Day 395
Having grown up in New Jersey and having family there, I’ve been tracking Hurricane Irene like many of you. My brother lives three miles...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 27, 20112 min read
Flower Bed of Death: Everyday Magic, Day 388
I start the garden each March with the best of intentions, but I’ve learned to accept that come July sometime, I will abandon all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20111 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
Wrung Out And Hung To Dry (Instantly) In The Heat: Everyday Magic, Day 377
I shouldn’t be surpri I shouldn't be surprised by what happens each day, but I am: by mid-afternoon, I feel like a psychic vacuum has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20111 min read
A Flat Tire On A Cobblestone Street In 104 Degrees: Everyday Magic, Day 374
Not a moment I want to relive. I turned a corner too fast, ran over a little bit of curb, and blew out a back tire, which might not be...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20112 min read
