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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
If You Postpone a Flight a Dozen Times & Then Cancel It, the Revolution Begins: Everyday Magic,
To keep someone from using it for harm, Kelly hid the plastic knife on the ticket counter as we were slowly reconfiguring our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20123 min read
Trying to Find a Moment of Calm in Air-Travel-Hell: Everyday Magic, 505
Maybe hell is too strong a word, I told myself, but after the last update (“We don’t know if the plane will go out, and if not, there are...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20121 min read
Dwelling in Uncertainty & Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 504
The view from my office on the cusp of the incoming storm When is it most difficult to dwell in uncertainty? When you’re exhausted and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 23, 20122 min read
A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a place for the curious, eccentric and more-than-easily amused. So...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20122 min read
In Love With Vermont & Homesick For Kansas: The Folly & Wonder of Being Multi-Placial: Eve
It’s no wonder that I’ve had several conversations with students and friends lately about being multi-placial, that is, being someone...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 19, 20122 min read
Living It Up At The Wayside: Everyday Magic, Day 500
I talked my friend and boss Ruth into going with me, which worked out particularly well since she had a car, I didn’t, and it would have...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20121 min read
“Can We Keep Him?” or If You Give a Chocolate Lab a Bagel…..: Everyday Magic, Day
I know you’re not supposed to feed dogs bagels, but when the chocolate lab in our car — who showed up this snowy morning on our porch —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20122 min read
Winter’s Coming, and Boy, Is She Pissed!: Everyday Magic, Day 498
The sky looks angry, and for good reason. Winter, on route to us since December, got mighty lost on the way and ended up in Budapest by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20121 min read
Readying Myself to Roll: Everyday Magic, Day 497
The cat packs herself for the trip Come Monday morning, I head down the magic rabbit hole between my home in a house on the prairie in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 11, 20122 min read
Prayer Balloons: Everyday Magic, Day 496
When our family was in a terrible car accident, and Forest was life-flighted to the children’s hospital, after his miraculous recovery,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20121 min read
Imagining Time Travel to Columbia, Missouri: Everyday Magic, Day 495
I just booked a night in a B & B on University Avenue in Columbia, Missouri, on the same block where I once lived 32 years ago. Thanks to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 8, 20123 min read
