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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
Kitty Goes Away, Kitty Comes Back and the Stages In Between: Everyday Magic, Day 443
For hours, I opened the door, stepped outside and meowed because when she’s gotten out before, she has meowed back when she was close. I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 17, 20112 min read
Astonished By Your Support: Everyday Magic, Day 442
When I launched the campaign to raise funds for the poet laureate of Kansas program, I was hoping we could reach a benchmark goal of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 15, 20111 min read
Into the Woods and Back Out Again: Everyday Magic, Day 441
Every year, we go into the woods at Shantivanam in Easten, Kansas for a little retreat. We usually go in overlapping shifts, me hauling...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20111 min read
From Kansas to Peru With Love: Installment #3
Ken, Stephanie with a child and his Mom after adjusting the wheelchair, with CASP teacher. One of the unexpected bonuses for our trip’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 8, 20115 min read
Poem for Ken Irby: Everyday Magic, Day 439
Poem for Ken Irby And the clearing, if it is clearing, from the North comes on in the brain like running out barefoot in it as fast as...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 7, 20112 min read
My Two Hometowns: Everyday Magic, Day 438
In Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, I had my haunts, mainly the pizza shop, delicatessan, school yards (where I seemed to attract kids who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20112 min read
Tormented by Kittens: Everyday Magic, Day 437
Who would have thought it? Not I, lover of all kittens of the world, friend to the felines. But in my friend’s Wichita basement guest...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 4, 20112 min read
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
