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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
Why Daylight Savings Time Confuses the Heck Out of Me: Everyday Magic, Day 515
It’s no wonder these time changes make me feel like I’ve woken up on another planet because time, for most of the year, seems absolute...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20122 min read
Leader of the Pack: Everyday Magic, Day 514
One dog, and you’re a person with a dog. Two dogs, and you’re part of the pack. I’ve been learning this vividly since Shay moved in with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 9, 20122 min read
Big Wind, Big Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 513
All night, the big wind blows. At times, the whole house seems to lift a little as the wind finds its way through every slat and crack....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20121 min read
Unpacking Without Having Gone Anywhere: Everyday Magic, Day 512
The dressy-dress was hung in the minivan with care while dress shoes and stockings were packed neatly in a canvas bag along. By this time...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 6, 20122 min read
The Complexity of Kindness: Everyday Magic, Day 511
“It’s because you’re trying to be a good person,” a friend told me when I said I must have been an idiot to call back someone looking for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20123 min read
Davy Jones: RIP, My First (Kinda, Sorta) True Love: Everyday Magic, Day 510
The Monkees hit their peak at the exact point that the pre-teen hormones overtook my little person. I say “little” because I was small...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 3, 20122 min read
Tornado Warning!: Everyday Magic, Day 509
It’s after midnight, and my heart is still wide awake, set in racer action by the very sudden tornado warning that propelled our family,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 29, 20122 min read
We Got a Dog!: Everyday Magic, Day 508
When the Chocolate Labaraner (Weimaraner + Lab) chooses you, who are you to say no? So the day after I finished traveling 39 rings of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 28, 20122 min read
“Oy, You’re in Kafka Territory” Air Travel: Everyday Magic, Day 507
That’s what Judy wrote me on Facebook. To catch you up, my flight leaving Burlington, Vt. yesterday was delayed a dozen times then...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 25, 20122 min read
