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The Astonishing Beauty of the Last Drop of Autumn: Everyday Magic, Day 824
There's something about this afternoon: the autumn colors still brilliant, maybe even more brilliant than usual against the backdrop of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 10, 20142 min read
The Tender Side of Loss: Everyday Magic, Day 824
Ken in the deep woods In the past two weeks, the Royals lost the World Series, my favored candidate for governor (when the stakes were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 7, 20142 min read
Kansas, I Love You, But Your Broke My Heart Again: Everyday Magic, Day 823
Last night’s election sent me to bed with a tremor of despair and a dull ache in my head and heart. Once again, the people of my beloved...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20143 min read
A Moment of Stillness in Grief: Everyday Magic, Day 822
It has been a week for the record books in my life. Monday, my aunt, who I loved but barely saw in the last four decades, died after a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 25, 20142 min read
Loving Rachel Rolfs: Everyday Magic, Day 821
Rachel, her brother Micah and mom LaVetta in 1983 This was a girl who grew up in the background, preferring to help others shine and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 22, 20142 min read
No More Waiting on Weight-Loss: Everyday Magic, Day 820
“Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts?” William Stafford asks in one of my poems, and for me, when it comes to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 4, 20142 min read
The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819
There’s nothing like listening to Wagner while lightning illuminates a vast, dark grey monster you’re driving right into at highway...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 1, 20142 min read
A New Throne for the Queen: Everyday Magic, Day 818
So today I decided to fix our toilet — the one in “my” bathroom, a place I’m very fond of. Even Ken, who was out of town for the weekend,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 28, 20142 min read
Happy Rosh Hashana: Everyday Magic, Day 817
The days of awe come exactly when they’re supposed to, launching with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, and ending with breaking fast on...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 24, 20142 min read
A Mouse in the House: Everyday Magic, Day 816
It was after 1 a.m., and I was struggling to fall asleep. “Go to sleep,” I told my sleepy body and rushing brain. I did my usual trick of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 9, 20142 min read
Northerning: Everyday Magic, Day 815
Hello, my name is Lake Michigan Usually summer aims me west, the direction any self-respecting Kansan wants to go when the temperatures...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 2, 20142 min read
A Good Rain in a Time of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 814
I’m sitting in the middle of my screened-in-porch while thunders roars to my east, and wind swooshes from my west. The sound of the rain...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20142 min read
Why I Buy Myself Flowers Each Week: Everyday Magic, Day 813
I didn’t always buy myself flowers each Friday, and actually, I’m not even sure when I started, but it was sometime in the last five or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 29, 20142 min read
Running with the Ruling Class: Everyday Magic, Day 812
Here I am in my bigger, better first class seat. When I saw those stark words — “Flight Delayed” — on my computer at 7:30 this morning, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20143 min read
Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811
As a kid, I lived on my bike, a daily ritual of pouring down the hill where I lived or trudging back up when it was time to go home. My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20142 min read
Ellis Island, Where Past Generations of Us Came First: Everyday Magic, Day 810
Forest, about to enter the building his great-grandparents passed through to make a life here. Yesterday, Forest and I went, for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 2, 20142 min read
When An Evangelical Christian Makes a Jewish Poet Pump Iron: Everyday Magic, Day 809
Kevin and I have, at least on the surface, little in common. He’s an evangelical Christian, and I’m a practicing Jew. He’s less than half...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 29, 20142 min read
Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808
“Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and then, with a purse full of bookmarks to commemorate the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20142 min read
Praying for the Peace That Surpasses All Understanding: Everyday Magic, Day 807
On Facebook, at the grocery store, and even in my own kitchen, discussions heat up about the Israeli bombing of Gaza, and the Hamas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 13, 20143 min read
To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806
Now that all three of our children are young adults, I realize how difficult it is to be moseying around on not-completely-fully-formed...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 30, 20144 min read
