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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
I’m in Love with the Ocean: Everyday Magic, Day 451
But sitting right now in my bathrobe on this small balcony attached to our room on the ship, I’m immersed in big-horizon happiness. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 2, 20112 min read
The Blessed Goddess of the Orlando Airport Barette Store: Everyday Magic, Day 450
Yesterday I had three hours to kill in the Orlando airport terminal, which mostly meant dragging my suitcase, backpack and purse as I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 1, 20112 min read
The Healing Power of the Body: Everyday Magic, Day 449
I’m always astonished that one day I can feel like thousands of miniature aliens are wreaking havoc on my sinus system, and the next day,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 27, 20112 min read
Things To Notice When You’re Sick: Everyday Magic, Day 448
Sometimes all you can do is notice, and here’s what’s been occurring to me: When it’s very quiet, it’s easy to hear/feel that pulse in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 25, 20111 min read
Thanksgiving for the Obvious Beyond the Obvious: Everyday Magic, Day 447
Thanksgiving, Forgiving, Thanks for Giving: It all comes together this time of the year, just on the cusp of the shortening of days and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 23, 20112 min read
From Kansas to Peru With Love: Installment #4
Jig for making push rim When Gladys and Raoul got directions to Rumbos, the local grassroots wheelchair manufacturer, I wasn’t sure we’d...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20116 min read
Sending the Book to the Publisher for Design: Everyday Magic, Day 446
I just hit the “send” button on the email to my publisher, releasing into the wilds between my novel after 16 years of writing and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20112 min read
How Many Poets Does It Take To Go to the End of the World, Begin Again, and Spring Poetry on Strange
Evidently, it takes 8 poets, which is what we had for our Southwest Kansas Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems caravan, which took us across...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20114 min read
Kansas: Size DOES Matter: Everyday Magic, Day 444
Tomorrow I drive a van load of poets about 400 miles to Southwestern Kansas for more of the Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems tour. I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 17, 20111 min read
