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The Cedars Are Full of Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 473
Years ago, Ken made up a chant: Blue prairie winter sky Sun shines brightly Wind blows lightly The cedars are full of birds Today is such...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 2, 20121 min read
In the Sweet Cusp of This New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 472
After cleaning the house for a party, the party, the clean-up, the movie afterwards, and the driving of relatively young people (e.g. old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20123 min read
Daniel Speaks on Growing Up With Aspergers: Everyday Magic, Day 471
Daniel today In response to the essay I wrote about Daniel growing up with Aspergers, mainly focusing on when he was nine, I asked him if...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20114 min read
Dragonflies, Inky Blackness & Raising a Kid with Asperger’s: Essay Published in Yes Magazine
It may seem odd to take 13 years to share something widely, but when I first wrote the essay, I was immersed in co-editing with writer...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20111 min read
Why I Wish So Many More People Would Go to Therapy: Everyday Magic, Day 470
I have this fantasy of Therapy Camp, a happy place I could kindly direct all the people I know who are suffering above and beyond their...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20113 min read
Down the Medical Test Rabbit Hole & Hoping for No Poker Faces: Everyday Magic, Day 469
A few weeks ago, a friend going through chemo asked me if I still worry about the cancer returning. “Not for years,” I told her. Nothing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20112 min read
What I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up: Everyday Magic, Day 468
I wanted to be the lead singer in a rock’n’roll band called the Rootin’ Shootin’ Tootets. I would also play tambourine, and I had already...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 28, 20112 min read
Seasons & Cycles Wheel Finds Its Place After 24 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 467
Around 1988, Ken took his vision for a seasonal wheel, calligraphied beautifully in his book Seasons & Cycles: Rhythms of Life in the Kaw...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 27, 20111 min read
When Things Go Askew, or Have Cake, Will Travel: Everyday Magic, Day 466
I rushed to the front doors of the reception place we rented only to find them locked. I had a massive carrot cake in the back of my van...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20112 min read
A Crystal-Clear Sky from the 9th Floor: Everyday Magic, Day 465
The view west is expansive, the rising blue of this enormous sky so clear and shining, especially in contrast to the washed-out grays and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 25, 20112 min read
A Very Tall Cloud, the Joplin Tornado, the Eventual Graduation and the Rebuilding of Everything: Eve
On May 21st, Daniel quasi-graduated from Bethel College, meaning he walked in cap and gown with the others but still had an incomplete to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 24, 20112 min read
The Longest Night of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 463
On the longest night of the year, I strung beads, mostly choosing ones that caught the light, to create a big bunch of light-catchers for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 23, 20112 min read
After the Migraine: Everyday Magic, Day 462
A crystal sky that goes from dark rose through yellow to blue behind the still cottonwood branches. A pale green mug of cold water. A red...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 17, 20112 min read
Living with Men Drives Me Crazy: Everyday Magic, Day 460
So it’s no wonder that every so often, living with a herd of men (and a herd of ADD men, but maybe that’s redundant), I feel like I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 15, 20112 min read
Lost in Translation at Walmart: Everyday Magic, Day 459
Why we were at Walmart, hauling an outrageously heavy treadmill with a whimpering motor, is itself a long story involving Craig’s List, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 15, 20113 min read
Spa Day Despite All Else: Trying My Own Advice: Everyday Magic, Day 458
When the article I wrote for The Magazine of Yoga on creating your own spa day was published, I was caught in so much the opposite of spa...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 14, 20112 min read
Dear December, Please Change: Everyday Magic, Day 457
Dear December, I want to like you, really I do, especially since you’re my birthday month (not to mention the birthday month of many dear...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 12, 20112 min read
A Small Woman in the Forest of Tall Men: Everyday Magic, Day 456
Kelley and Ken with one of the Kaw kids and the late great Susan Jones When I first came to Lawrence almost 30 years ago, I ran with a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20112 min read
What’s So Great About Turkey Thursday?: Everyday Magic, Day 453
I’ve got a turkey in the oven, so all is right with the world. Never mind that it’s not Thanksgiving or Christmas (other people in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 8, 20111 min read
Still Swaying After All These Years, or How I Came to Love Cruises: Everyday Magic, Day 452
Today, awake in Kansas where a light snow has dusted the ground, I’m sitting still and yet not so still. The ocean moves inside me....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 6, 20112 min read
