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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
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’m perched on this lovely porch on the last day of the year, at least the last day according to the Jewish year, which ends at sundown....
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
