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Why You Shouldn't Save a Skink By Its Tail or Untether a Spider From Your Rearview Window: Ever
I was just trying to help, honest. So when the cat brought in the iridescent skink, ready to tear off its limbs while purring loudly, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 24, 20112 min read
Going Back to High School: Everyday Magic, Day 393
In August each year, Ken and I go back to high school. Standing in line with the other parents, who noodle into longer and thicker lines...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20113 min read
Roses From My Father-in-Law (Even Though He's Dead): Everyday Magic, Day 392
After a day, I realized that to my shame, Gene didn’t just buy me roses but my mother-in-law also. Both of us would receive a dozen or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20111 min read
"The Help," the Protest Against It And Why I Went To See It: Everyday Magic, Day 391
Sitting on Dora’s lap in our small Brooklyn apartment kitchen, I asked, “If the white people are so mean to the black people, why isn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 21, 20114 min read
In Praise of Mexican Food: Everyday Magic, Day 390
I was right about my lifelong relationship with Mexican food. When I get home from Vermont, where really good Mexican food is scarce (at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 18, 20112 min read
News of My Demise Is Greatly Exagerated: Everyday Magic, Day 389
Well, I’m still poet laureate, and as I’ve written before, I still plan to finish my term, which ends next July, and to pass on this post...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20112 min read
Flower Bed of Death: Everyday Magic, Day 388
I start the garden each March with the best of intentions, but I’ve learned to accept that come July sometime, I will abandon all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20111 min read
In Praise of Bathtubs: Everyday Magic, Day 387
I love baths because I’m encased in water. I love baths because I can sprinkle in eucalyptus and sweet orange essential oil and inhabit...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20112 min read
First Morning Back: Everyday Magic, Day 386
I didn’t go to sleep until well into the first morning back, the combination of 11 hours of planes, taxis, cars and long walkways...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 13, 20112 min read
At the Cusp Between Worlds: Everyday Magic, Day 385
There’s been a lot of humidity and humility, a big thunder bolt (or two), many rehearsals for “Riverdance,” which some of us faculty...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 12, 20111 min read
In Memory of Peter Berg & Celebration of Real Time: Everyday Magic, Day 384
Peter at the Texas bioregional gathering in 1992 “We didn’t play it for the Big Time. We didn’t play it for the Small Time. We played it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20113 min read
Secrets of the Faculty Dorm: Everyday Magic, Day 383
I would tell you, but then I would have to kill you…..or seek your word you won’t breathe a word to everyone, which I guess I’m doing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 5, 20112 min read
The Girl, The Ego & The Comfortable Room: Everyday Magic, Day 382
"Your goal on the spiritual path should be to free everyone else from your ego." – Ken Wilber. That's what my friend Scott posted on...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 4, 20112 min read
Doors Of New York & Other Entryways To Other Dimensions: Everyday Magic, Day 381
We stepped out of the hotel a few days ago, glanced at a door together, and Lauren and I looked at each other, each pulling out a camera....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 3, 20112 min read
Weather Guilt & The Weather To Come: Everyday Magic, Day 380
I'm in a dorm room in Vermont with the windows open. It's 62 degrees. Fellow Kansans as well as inhabitants of Death Valley (although...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 2, 20111 min read
I'm Walking, Yes Indeed: Everyday Magic, Day 379
Forest at Artie's Deli So once again it’s New York City, and once again, it’s a walking marathon-frenzy-delight, this time with my sister...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 30, 20112 min read
How Much Love We Can Show Together, From Kansas To Norway: Everyday Magic, Day 378
When bad things happen -- whether at the personal, community, state, national or world level -- how we rise up again comes down to coming...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20112 min read
Wrung Out And Hung To Dry (Instantly) In The Heat: Everyday Magic, Day 377
I shouldn’t be surpri I shouldn't be surprised by what happens each day, but I am: by mid-afternoon, I feel like a psychic vacuum has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20111 min read
Why I Keep Seeing "Buck": Everyday Magic, Day 376
Okay, so seeing one m Despite not growing up on a horse or near them very much, I love “Buck” — the documentary based on the real horse...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20112 min read
A Flat Tire On A Cobblestone Street In 104 Degrees: Everyday Magic, Day 374
Not a moment I want to relive. I turned a corner too fast, ran over a little bit of curb, and blew out a back tire, which might not be...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20112 min read
