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360 Degree Beauty: Everyday Magic, Day 535
97 tornadoes later, what a difference a day makes. Although my heart is heavy for those suffering loss of home and place throughout...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20122 min read
Awaiting the Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 534
For the last day and a half most Kansans have been watching the weather like a vulture watches roadkill. Storms are coming and are...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 14, 20122 min read
Where I’ve Been: Cheating On You With Another Blog: Everyday Magic, Day 533
Please forgive me. I’ve been writing on another blog behind your back this week, but truly, this blog means nothing to me compared to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 10, 20122 min read
After Passover Passes Over: Everyday Magic, Day 532
The morning after Passover blanketed itself in sleep, gray sky and rain. Luckily, after moving inside to sleep about 2 a.m. when it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 8, 20121 min read
The Inadvertent Rube Goldberg Contraptions of My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 531
Last night, I noticed that although Rube Goldberg’s descendants never claimed me as a relative, maybe I should claim them. This insight...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20122 min read
Passover: Have a Taste of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 530
All week, it’s Passover preparation: hiding all the matzoh and matzoh soup mix (along with the macaroons — do not even ask where they...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20122 min read
“How Can You Not Love That Kind of Winning?”: What the KU Jayhawks Show Us About Life: E
“I have no idea how we won,” Robinson said. “I really don’t know.” That really has been the Jayhawk theme this season, inexplicably...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 2, 20122 min read
Forgetting My 10 Year Cancer Anniversary: Everyday Magic, Day 528
Lying in bed last night, I remembered: March 21, 2002 — the day I discovered I had breast cancer, a moment I swore I would always...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20122 min read
How Adrienne Rich Taught Me To Be a Poet: Everyday Magic, Day 527
I started writing poetry years beforehand when I was about 14, running with the usual suspects — T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings (who were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20123 min read
Lighting a Big Field On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 526
Would we burn the whole field before the rain and lightning came? It was hard to tell, and we almost stopped several times, but then we...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20122 min read
Ronda, Grandma Barb and the Long Way Home: A Miracle of Poetry: Everyday Magic, Day 525
Why the poetry caravan went to St. Francis for a reading had everything to do with one of the town’s prodigal daughters, Ronda Miller....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20122 min read
The Wild West Poetry Channel: Everyday Magic, Day 524
“Hunters skinning animals in their room should ask for black plastic bag,” read the sign in the motel Ronda decided we best not stay at,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20122 min read
Final, Final, Final Edits On a Book I’ve Been Writing for 16 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 523
The lure and pressure of the final, final, final edits run in overdrive for me because of how many years I’ve been writing this novel. I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20122 min read
The Prodigal Dog Returns and Brings with Him All Joy: Everyday Magic, Day 522
The phone rang right after Kelley and I finished our sushi and tempura on this rainy Tuesday. “I better get this. It could be about the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20122 min read
10 Perfect Things: Everyday Magic, Day 521
10 a.m. in the Checkers (supermarket for you out-of-towners) parking lot, I saw a man surely in his 70s or older carrying a one-year-old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20121 min read
The Mystery of the Missing Dog: Everyday Magic, Day 520
We were speculating about how Shay may have been stolen since he vanished so quickly. Saturday afternoon, Ken was on the hill doing some...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20122 min read
Hankering for Shay to Sashay Home: Everyday Magic, Day 519
Shay vanished while Ken was with him on the hill in the woods today. Ken turned his back, and the dog, who had been following a scent in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 17, 20121 min read
Magnolia Tour 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 518
Every year, they explode open too fast only to be killed by some midnight frost that comes in mid March. Most years, I tell myself I will...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20122 min read
Unromancing the Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 517
I was surrounded by fire in the dry grass as it ran forward, little triangles composed of small flames licking the grass. I tried to put...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20122 min read
Naming the Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 516
Natalie with Miyako when she was still a kitten The old story goes that Eve named the animals, but we know better when it comes to what...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 12, 20122 min read
