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Art Tougeau Delivers: Everyday Magic, Day 555
Nothing like a steamy weekend to bring out some of what I love most about Lawrence: what happens when this community intersects with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20122 min read
Attack of the Mayflies: Everyday Magic, Day 554
The mayflies are here, and they mean business. Add together a non-winter and a long, wet spring, and you get what we’ve got in our house:...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20121 min read
Phone Rage or Reverie: Everyday Magic, Day 553
When I was a kid, my father used to give pure hell to any customer service person employed by a company that messed up. Pity the person...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 22, 20123 min read
My Life With a Big, Naughty Dog: Everyday Magic, Day 552
Resting dogs after trashing the house a little He acts like a fur-covered giant toddler although various vets have told me that he’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20122 min read
Pinneapple Power, Couger Blessing & Other Wonders of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 551
Friday, I landed home from the 7th annual Brave Voice: Writing & Singing for Your Life retreat that Kelley Hunt and I blessedly do...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20123 min read
“You Are My People, and I Am Yours”: Everyday Magic, Day 550
I’ve been at Brave Voice, the retreat Kelley Hunt and I lead in the Flint Hills each spring, and wanted to share a poem I wrote for a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 15, 20122 min read
Standing on the Side of Love For Same-Sex Marriage: Everyday Magic, Day 549
When I saw the news, first on facebook and next in the New York Times, I started crying. Maybe I’m a little tired or overly enthralled...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 9, 20123 min read
Most of a Moon in the Morning: Everyday Magic, Day 548
Out the south window of my living room, I see it: over half a moon on its way down but still quite high, a pale white disk that looks...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 9, 20122 min read
I Love My Job: Everyday Magic, Day 547
Some of us are task-oriented, and some of us, not to mention the way much of our economy is structured, is time-oriented: having a job...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 8, 20122 min read
Chigger Magnet: Everyday Magic, Day 546
Some men and women and chick magnets. Me? I’m a chigger magnet. Take me out to the fields or woods with you, and you won’t need insect...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 7, 20122 min read
How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545
One of our early campouts. See if you can find Ken and me. I was 22, living in Kansas City, completely fed-up with the world of dating in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20125 min read
“I Started Early, Took My Dog”: Everyday Magic, Day 544
Okay, so 9 a.m. isn’t exactly early, but it’s earlier than I usually take my dog for a walk, and it’s the start of what I’m hoping to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 2, 20122 min read
In Praise of the Aunties: Everyday Magic, Day 543
One of our beloved aunts (Ken’s by birth, mine my marriage) is struggling for her life while dear aunts of two close friends also dwell...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20123 min read
20 Years and One Daughter Later: Everyday Magic, Day 542
20 years ago this afternoon, I sat in a Chinese restaurant in Topeka with Ken and our friend Mike Rundle, waiting for some wonton soup...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 27, 20123 min read
Is That A Computer In Your Nose or Are You Just Unhappy To See Me?: Everyday Magic, Day 541
I’m afraid there’s a computer up my nose. Seriously. It’s yet another thing about the future I couldn’t have imagined when I was nine...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 26, 20122 min read
1,731 Miles, 11 Gigs, 97 Tornadoes, One Good Weather Radio & One Bad Sinus Infection: Poetry Month
What happened? I’m not sure, but counting from March 24th (when poetry month started for me) and paraphrasing Woody Guthrie, I’ve been...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 26, 20122 min read
The Goodnight Tornado: Everyday Magic, Day 539
Goodnight, Texas Goodnight, Texas, land of expanse and loneliness, where the sky makes up for in height whatever you need in width....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 22, 20121 min read
The Warped Joy of Cleaning the Stove: Everyday Magic, Day 538
I chose a white stove several years ago when the third of a series of used stoves we bought, hauled in, and used for a while joined that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20121 min read
Woman Who Sleeps With the Big Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 537
I used to worry about empty nest syndrome startling me awake to all the regret and guilt I have as a mother, but was too busy to feel. I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 18, 20122 min read
Driving the Dark Backroad Home: Everyday Magic, Day 536
Leaving Kansas City tonight, where I gave a poetry reading, I headed west on 87th Street, first missing the turn onto I-35 and then...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 17, 20122 min read
