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Holly & Our Wedding Song: Everyday Magic, Day 436
We met her sometime in the early 80s, she and her husband having recently moved to Lawrence, and in no time we were doing poetry readings...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 3, 20113 min read
Winter’s Back in Town, Baby!: Everyday Magic, Day 435
As my friend and good writer Cheryl Unruh wrote, “The warmth that has lingered in September and October gave Kansans a second chance at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20112 min read
From Kansas to Peru with Love: Installment #2
Ken Lassman (occupational therapist, writer and wheelchair clinic director, and my husband) guest-blogs about his experiences working...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20113 min read
The Honor & Horror of Waking Up: Everyday Magic, Day 434
Given that I’ve written of falling asleep (or not) and napping in the last week, I figured I’d better complete the bedtime trilogy by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20113 min read
Surrealistic Power Napping: Everyday Magic, Day 433
I just woke up after a 30-minute nap, but actually, I was gone about three and a half hours……or maybe the reverse is true. In any case,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 30, 20112 min read
From Kansas to Peru with Love: Installment #1
Hotel Melodia has a very modest presence along the six-lane divided street of bustling traffic in the San Miguel section of Lima, Peru....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 29, 20114 min read
Finishing Begin Again: Everyday Magic, Day 432
Yesterday, the books came, marking the end of months of editing, proofreading, checking the proof, talking with designers and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 28, 20112 min read
An Insomniac & The Hour of the Wolf: Everyday Magic, Day 431
I’m sure I came out of the womb ready to stay up late, and since I was born late at night, I had a good start already. My mother tells me...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 27, 20113 min read
He Flies To Spring, I Drive In Fall: Everyday Magic, Day 430
All afternoon and evening as I drove through the brightest reds of our fall so far, I thought of Ken, flying for almost seven hours into...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 26, 20112 min read
In Praise of Growing Old(er): Everyday Magic, Day 429
Almost two years since I crossed into what I’m sensing is the second half of my life, I’ve been thinking about growing old. What will it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 25, 20111 min read
Living in Two Worlds At Once, or “Do I Contradict Myself? Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself&
A few days ago, a woman driving me through a pounding rainstorm in New England revealed to me that she both works for an organization...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20112 min read
Written in Occupation: Everyday Magic, Day 427
Around the perimeter, visitors and regulars stand at the gate and film what’s happening. Tourists walk through, giving out money or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 17, 20112 min read
What Democracy Looks Like Today at Occupy Wall Street: Everyday Magic, Day 426
Meditation and Prayer at Zuccotti Park This was what I found when I stepped into Zuccotti Park, ground zero of the occupy movement...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 16, 20112 min read
When Humans Make Places Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 425
An hour or so west (“Everything in New Hampshire is an hour away from everything else,” George tells me), I get to the elevator in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 14, 20111 min read
Remembering Matthew Shepard & What Divides Us: Everday Magic, Day 424
There are many people tortured, even killed, just because they are who they are, and while I don’t mean to lift up Shepard above all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 12, 20112 min read
In Praise of White Fish: Everday Magic, Day 423
The past is blurry, but you can see that I was happier holding the white fish than sitting on the cement turtle Last night I sat around a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 11, 20112 min read
Time To Repent, Reflect & Reconvene: Everyday Magic, Day 422
Yom Kippur begins at sundown, the biggest holiday (not counting regular old shabbat, which counts as the biggest regular old holiday) of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20112 min read
Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas Marches With the Zombies: Everyday Magic, Day 421
Our friends Rachel & Jonathan out for an autumnal stroll “Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20112 min read
Tale of Two Teapots: Everyday Magic, Day
We made all kinds of largely herbal teas for years, staying up late on winter nights over hibiscus or peppermint tea, talking about...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 3, 20112 min read
Throwing Our Cares On the River: Everyday Magic, Day 419
Susan with her grand dog On Rosh Hashana a bunch of us from the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation gathered at the river like we do...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 2, 20112 min read
