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Went In For a CT Scan, Left With a Panic Attack: Everyday Magic, Day 943
This is not to say I didn’t try to then smooth down the ragged edges of the shaky terror that started first in my bowels, then shook up...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 22, 20181 min read
Depression Beyond Comprehension: Everyday Magic, Day 942
I screwed up. When it comes to some close friends who suffer greatly from the kind of depression beyond comprehension — mine at least —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20183 min read
After 64 Consecutive Semesters, Taking a Break: Everyday Magic, Day 941
I started teaching when I was 26. It was English 101 at the University of Kansas, a gig I figured would help me get through graduate...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 5, 20183 min read
The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940
With temperatures rising to summertime and good rains falling last week, everything is speeding into growth around this house. The hostas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20182 min read
I’m in Love With Irises (Peonies Too): Everyday Magic, Day 939
Why are they so mind-blowingly beautiful? Is it the delicate petal, something between paper and flesh? Or the enormous resilience of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20182 min read
Weeding in the Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 938
I felt that call of the garden as soon as Ken and I stepped out for our evening walk around the edges of the fields. “Let’s just stay...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20182 min read
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
