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Some Great Summer Movies: Everyday Magic, Day 614
Our summer of hell (via heat and Kansas politics) has driven me to Liberty Hall, our local movie theater, often to see many refreshing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 21, 20122 min read
Turns Out I Love an Old, Beaten-Down Car: Everyday Magic, Day 613
And why shouldn’t I love it? This car is not only comfortable with a vengeance, but it has hauled hundreds of things and thousands of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 17, 20122 min read
What To Do With a Summer Cold?: Everyday Magic, Day 612
Sleep as late as possible. Waking to let the dog out? Back to sleep. Waking again to let the dog in? Back to sleep. Cat pouncing on your...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20123 min read
Me & My Fur-Covered Assistant: Everyday Magic, Day 611
“I got this, boss.” Shay the dog is right at my side as we step outside to the sleeping porch. “I got this one, boss,” Shay tells me with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20122 min read
Beautiful Juxtapositions: Everyday Magic, Day 610
All weekend, the beautiful juxtapositions of like plus unlike have amused and startled me. It started with Forest showing me how to march...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 12, 20122 min read
What’s In My Car?: Everyday Magic, Day 609
Cleaning out the car today, I discovered how prepared I am for impromptu camping, yoga, reading or flossing, not to mention vacuuming....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 11, 20122 min read
The Miracle of Here to There: Everyday Magic, Day 608
In between were hours, crowds, hot flashes, moving sidewalks, and rushes toward food courts that seemed too rushed only to rush two other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 10, 20122 min read
Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607
The air is warm and damp (mid-80s and humid) as opposed to dry and hot (like the 109 predicted for Kansas today). The rain comes often....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 4, 20121 min read
Hotter Than Hell & 20 More Diversions: Everyday Magic, Day 606
When you step outside at 9 a.m., and it’s already too hot to be out, it’s hard to sink into weather-induced self-pity, punctuated by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 29, 20122 min read
A Day in the Life of the Book Biz: Everyday Magic, Day 605
People outside the book biz often have a notion that once the book comes out, your big work is done, but for most of us who write or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20124 min read
Some Thoughts on Aging (and a Shout-Out to My Little Sister on Her 40th Birthday): Everyday Magic, D
Being well past 40, and actually immersing myself big-time in the 50s now, what I’ve realized is how much better life gets (or can get)...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 24, 20122 min read
Cantaloupe, Iced Coffee & An Hour on the Deck: Everyday Magic, Day 603
The heaviness and lightness of life braid with my own life. Last night, I facilitated a writing workshop in Kansas City for people living...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 24, 20121 min read
A 30-Year Reunion, Workshop & Reading, and Dead Bird (All in a Day’s Work): Everyday Magi
Yesterday, Ken and I drove west for 2.5 hours to beautiful Salina, Kansas. Never mind that it was 106 degrees (if we stopped doing things...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 22, 20122 min read
One Moment in the Climate Crisis: Everyday Magic, Day 602
When I think of the weather lately — hard not to do when the reality behind and forecast ahead is triple-digit days up one side and down...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 20, 20122 min read
So I’m Still Poet Laureate of Kansas: Occupying Poetry: Everyday Magic, Day 601
I’m proud to be Kansas’ third poet laureate, following in the good work and writing of Denise Low and Jonathan Holden. Although I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 19, 20122 min read
Rain Is The New Sexy: Everyday Magic, Day 600
It’s been decayed-bone-dry here. Stepping outside either means entering a giant sauna or being battered around in a giant dryer...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 19, 20122 min read
My Hottest Writing: A Retrospective: Everyday Magic, Day 599
Turkeys in our field vying for what shade they can find Everyday I start to write about the heat, I realize what I’m prone to say has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20121 min read
Finally Married My Book and Now On Honeymoon, or Thank-You, Lawrence, for the Best Book Launch of My
I know it’s ludicrous to experience a book launch as a marriage, but I couldn’t help the strange overflow from my subconscious, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 15, 20122 min read
The Books Are Here!: Everyday Magic, Day 597
Why the books were delivered to a tree rather than to our porch dates back to early spring when the UPS guy told us he wouldn’t go up our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20121 min read
I (Really) Like Rocks: Everyday Magic, Day 596
Miyako the cat checks out the stash of rocks I brought home Why do I love rocks so much? I’m not sure, but they’ve always been the apple...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 9, 20122 min read
