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The Peace of a Late Autumn Day: Everyday Magic, Day 916
One of my and maybe your ongoing problems with fall as well as spring — especially in these regions where we have four distinct seasons —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 17, 20172 min read
Losing and Finding My C’hai (Which is Not a Dala Horse): Everyday Magic, Day 915
At breakfast at the Swedish Country Inn in Lindsborg, Kansas, someone said she liked my tiny gold Dala horse necklace. It took me a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 9, 20172 min read
Loving Uncle Ron: Everyday Magic, Day 914
It started with gerunds, a grammatical term for verbs that end in “ing.” To write directly and precisely, writers are supposed to avoid...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 3, 20174 min read
Me, Too, and All the Women (and Some Men) I Know: Everyday Magic, Day 913
I was 19, and I knew it was sexual harassment, but there was nothing I could do about it. He managed the movie theater where I worked...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20174 min read
Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912
I think of people in central Mexico, working frantically to unearth possible survivors from collapsed buildings from the 7.1 earthquake...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 20173 min read
When Miriam Finishes Wandering the Desert: Everyday Magic, Day 911
Late last night, as I sent my novel Miriam’s Well to my wonderful publisher, Steve Semken of Ice Cube Press, I reworked a summary of this...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 18, 20173 min read
An Expansive Kansas Road Trip in a Concise Time: Everyday Magic, Day 910
Kansas Humanities Council talk on wild weather in poetry, photography and our lives at one of the great community jewels-of-a-library,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 6, 20172 min read
Eclipse in Our Midst: Everyday Magic, Day 909
This eclipse, the first one in 99 years crossing the whole country, soared its moon shadow at speeds from 2,410 mph in Oregon, to 1,502...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20173 min read
Turning a Blog Into a Book (and Please Help Me Find a Great Subtitle!): Everyday Magic, Day 908
Yup, this is the photo that will wrap around the book cover. Thanks to Daniel and Ken Lassman for taking it together. My posts are fewer...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 9, 20173 min read
In Gratitude for Nancy O'Connor: Everyday Magic, Day 907
Community Mercantile, just celebrated its marvelous school garden project at West Junior High School and the person who founded the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 30, 20172 min read
Endings and Beginnings at Midnight: Everyday Magic, Day 906
It is 12:04 a.m., and I”m writing this from our back deck where I sit cross-legged in a chair and stare up at two enormous trees. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 12, 20172 min read
Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905
It’s called “putting the book to bed” when you turn in your final version of a whole bunch of pages about to be published as a real, live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 9, 20172 min read
The Everyday Miracle of Rainbows: Everyday Magic, Day 904
Why I didn’t see a rainbow until I was 12 was because I wasn’t looking, not having imagined rainbows were possible in real life. Growing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 1, 20173 min read
The Beauty of Being Lost in a Great Big Airport Parking Lot: Everyday Magic, Day 903
We lost the car. We didn’t mean to. In fact, both Ken and I distinctly remember me writing down the number of the row where we parked ten...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 27, 20172 min read
Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam!: Everyday Magic, Day 902
While the buffalo didn’t arrive, getting to share the news on Facebook, not nearly as exciting as getting a small herd, did have it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20171 min read
Calicoco, the Flying Ninja Cat, or Why You Shouldn't Put a Feral Kitty in Your Bathroom: Everyd
There’s white fur on the bathroom mirror, bath curtain rod, and bedroom windows from Calicoco, the feral cat I stupidly thought I could...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 16, 20174 min read
Following the Curve – a New Book of Poems About an Old Tradition: Everyday Magic, Day 901
Yoga, one of the oldest maps for being a body, says so much about cultivating a life of daring vitality and compassionate alignment. I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 5, 20171 min read
Please Help Me Find Cover Art For Miriam's Well, My New Novel: Everyday Magic, Day 900
Miriam’s Well Synopsis From a young age Miriam sees visions she can’t cope with or stop. Growing up Jewish in Brooklyn with Aaron, her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20173 min read
"What It Takes": 63rd Anniversary of Brown Vs. Board of Education: Everyday Magic, Day 899
What It Takes It takes years of waiting on polished wooden benches outside trembling courtrooms. Thousands of meetings in church...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 22, 20172 min read
Mothering Hacks Picked Up Along the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 898
We were exhausted and exuberant when we brought Daniel home from the hospital intensive care following some complications in his birthing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 14, 20174 min read
