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Working Hard on Not Working (So) Hard: Everyday Magic, Day 937
For a good many years, I’ve been working hard at not working so hard, not just in April but in other months prone to get over-laden with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Moses, Meet Miriam: Everyday Magic, Day 936
We stopped at Crystal Bridges Friday night about 7:30 p.m., figuring it was closed but wanting to scope out the place. It was open until...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20183 min read
Annual Magnolia Walk: Everyday Magic, Day 935
I love magnolia trees. Let me be more honest: I really and deeply love magnolia blossoms, and it’s one of my recurring nightmares to miss...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20182 min read
Finding Miriam in a Semi in an Alley on a Rainy Day: Everyday Magic, Day 934
Our long gravel drive was puddled and muddy, so there was no way the huge semi carrying my new book, Miriam's Well: A Modern Day Exodus,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20182 min read
Equinox Quirks in East Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 933
Nothing like a brisk walk on the first day of spring in East Lawrence with a good friend. Along the way, we saw many more friendly sites,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20181 min read
Prevernal Wonders: Everyday Magic, Day 932
I love the prevernal season perhaps best of all: that space between the start of spring and before the leafing out of the big, green...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20182 min read
Recipes From (and For) the Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 930
No surprise that food looms large in all my memoirs and novels, whether it’s the hunt for the best fried chicken in Kansas (in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 25, 20184 min read
In-Between Time: Everyday Magic, Day 929
Yesterday was an in-between day taken up with driving, flying, walking long underground vortexes of color and sound, flying some more,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20182 min read
Making Stuff Up From Mrs. Potato Head to Eat the Earth: Everyday Magic, Day 928
What to call a fictional women’s collective running a potato farm in Moab, Utah in my novel Miriam’s Well? What else but “Mrs. Potato...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 10, 20182 min read
The Secret Lives of Old Quilt Tops: Everyday Magic, Day 927
Years ago, I fell in love with a massive quilt of stars hand-sewn by an old woman at her garage sale. “It’s made from those cloth sacks...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Swirling Distractions of Winter Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 926
The starlings grabbed my attention while I was pacing the living room on a phone call. They poured diagonally down to the lawn, fanning...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20182 min read
First Lightning of the New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 925
The thunder comes rumbles to east, the lightning flashes irregularly in the southwest corner of my window, and the air is full. I open...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20181 min read
I Had No Idea! — Some of What Being a Mother Showed Me: Everyday Magic, Day 924
I had no idea how how much unconditional love I was capable, and before becoming a mother, I only had a glance of this light I’ve now...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20182 min read
A Bright, Beautiful Day and Why I Blog: Everyday Magic, Day 923
I started and persist for two reasons: to build more of an audience for my books, workshops, and other freelancing curves of work, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 3, 20182 min read
Remembering Dick Allen, 1939-2017: Everyday Magic, Day 922
The only problem was, that aside from the conference organizers, there were only a handful of conference-goers. We filled the open space...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 28, 20176 min read
I Hear America Singing At a Just-Closed Minnesota Music College: Everyday Magic, Day 921
Meanwhile, Jen, interim chair of the vocal department, and a long-time performer, educator, and arranger, made a miracle happen. Working...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 21, 20174 min read
Birds of Many Feathers: 10 Eagles, 100 Swans, 100,000 Snow Geese: Everyday Magic, Day 920
I thought it was a bust, but the boon just hadn't happened yet. We wanted 100,000 snow geese, but just saw a handful of eagles, and 100...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20172 min read
Hawking Books Wherever the Wind (and Car) Take Me: Everyday Magic, Day 919
I’ve learned over the years that it’s never a mistake to drive around with a bookstore in a rolling suitcase just in case, and that’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 30, 20173 min read
Mending Old Quilts: Everyday Magic, Day 918
Some might say to toss quilts with dozens of tears in them, but each quilt, just like each life, has its own story. Woody and Janet, our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 25, 20172 min read
In Gratitude for Neil: Everyday Magic, Day 917
We sat at a small table in La Prima Tassa on a spring day filtering sunshine across our table, sipping tea and updating each other on our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20173 min read
