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A Sound Bath in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Everyday Magic, Day 1086
I start out walking through cicadas, thousands, millions, maybe billions of them — this is Arkansas so it’s hard to know — a tunnel of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20233 min read
A Sudden Storm, a Sudden Death: Everyday Magic, Day 1085
Just before Kris told me at lunch she couldn’t wait for a good thunderstorm, Denise texted Judy and me, “On the way to the hospital. Not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 15, 20233 min read
Dear Loud Fireworks: Please Stop. Sincerely, All the Dogs & Me: Everyday Magic, Day 1084
Shortly after dinner fireworks tonight, an explosion went off with such power that our entire house shook. We all jumped, Ken, me, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 3, 20233 min read
Good Conversation on the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1083
The temps soared to the high 90s, the sun was bright, and Ken and I took to the open road on Saturday for me to give a Humanities Kansas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20232 min read
In the Glory of Hackberry Butterflies: Everyday Magic, Day 1082
For a week each year, the hackberry butterflies float, soar, and flutter in such number that we have to keep our mouths closed when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 7, 20232 min read
A New Understanding of Memorial Day: Everyday Magic, Day 1081
This year on Memorial Day, my 33-year-old son asked all of our family local to meet at the cemetery to decorate the graves, speak to our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 27, 20232 min read
The Most Beautiful Thing is Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1080
As soon as we started driving west from Kansas City International Airport Monday, I fell in love again with late afternoon light play and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20232 min read
Back in the Porch in Big Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 1079
“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter,” the Beatles sang, and while my winter wasn’t so lonely, it felt unduly long and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 4, 20232 min read
Known & Lesser-Known Stages of Covid in Our House: Everyday Magic, Day 1078
We managed to avoid getting Covid for almost three years, to the point that when that screaming hot pink line appeared on the test strip...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 12, 20233 min read
Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077
A few days ago I went to my seventh and perhaps my last Springsteen concert, which was (as always) a tour de force love child of sacred...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 21, 20233 min read
The Power of Music: Everyday Magic, Day 1076
This is the week of the Bruces for me — I saw Bruce Cockburn in concert Thurs. night, and Sat. night, I’m off to see Bruce Springsteen...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 17, 20232 min read
Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075
I was fifteen years ago and miserable when I first went to a youth group Havdalah service one winter evening. I was living with my very...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20233 min read
Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074
Juxtapositions — putting like with non-like — add zip, surprise, sometimes anxiety, and often uncertainty to our lives. They’re also at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20232 min read
The Dark of the Dark, the Cold of the Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 1073
In the middle of the longest night of the year, my anxiety search dogs kept jarring me awake, running amok while looking for something to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 22, 20222 min read
For the Love of Aunt Jill: Everyday Magic, Day 1072
“I’m not going to leave a message,” my sister Lauren said when she left a message Friday. I was standing in the corner of an ebullient...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 4, 20224 min read
27 Things I’m Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071
It’s almost twilight, Moxie dog is sleeping in the corner, my ears are buzzing with low-hum tinnitus, and I’m about to make dinner....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 26, 20223 min read
Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?: Everyday Magic, Day 1070
Time continually befuddles me, so much so that my last book of poetry was called How Time Moves, and I’m still deep in the muck of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 12, 20223 min read
Tuning In To Realer News: Everyday Magic, Day 1069
I’ve stopped tuning into most of what we call news until after the midterms. It isn’t because I don’t care, quite the contrary, but...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Living As If We Know We’ll Be Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1068
In one of my favorite movies, About Time, the main character, who can time travel, hatches a great plan: he’ll live each day with all its...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20223 min read
What Floatillas, Japanese Bullet Trains, Mishegoss, and Star Trek Have to Do With Writing a Memoir?:
All week, I’ve been writing on the porch of one of the houses at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 18, 20223 min read
