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Reversal of Fortune and the Wonder Wheel of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1065
In mid-July, everything fell apart from air-conditioners to phones to cars and more. A growing river of money and time surged out to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20222 min read
We Never Leave You, You Never Leave Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1064
I left because it was making me sick, the “it” being the job I had loved fiercely and believed Iwould give my heart and time to until I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20225 min read
We’re Positively (or Negatively) Electrical: Everyday Magic, Day 1063
Yesterday my phone blew a microchip hissy fit and lost it ability to dial out or answer calls a few hours before the air-conditioning in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 20, 20222 min read
We Used to Write Letters: Everyday Magic, Day 1062
Dear Readers, For last month, I’ve been on an archeological colonoscopy into my past as I sorted through boxes and big plastic vats of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 10, 20223 min read
Boobs and Bravery on the Move: Everyday Magic, Day 1061
It’s been a week of boobs and bravery on the move (and I don’t mean the supreme court, which I have other names for rather than slang for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 27, 20223 min read
Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060
Weather. That was the theme of the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills, and because of all my weather poetry, especially my poem “Being Made...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 12, 20224 min read
Traveling Woman: Everyday Magic, Day 1059
Suddenly, I’m on the road a lot after the time-bending months of the pandemic. I went to Wichita for a night to visit with an old friend...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20222 min read
Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058
Yesterday began with running outside in our pajamas to cut irises as fast as possible while 70 mph winds and a giant thunderstorm...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20222 min read
“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Going from winter (otherwise known as much of April) to summer (disguised as May this year) has plummeted many of us in Kansas into the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 13, 20223 min read
Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Cancer is often measured in anniversaries and fruit. We survivors often report in with our years out from the cancer after our initial...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20224 min read
The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055
Sometimes I feel like I’m at a sudden still point between waves of motion and change. Like right now as I sit in a floral chair in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20222 min read
My Friend Vaughn and the Walk to the House Down the Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1054
“Vaughn keeps talking about the house down the road,” Julie, his wife, told me just a few days before he died. I listened on the other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 30, 20224 min read
Two Years Later and What Will be Two Years From Now?: Everyday Magic, Day 1053
It all changed March 13, 2020 for many of us in this country. That Friday the 13th was auspicious in ways people like me didn’t see...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20222 min read
What’s Wrong With Humans (and Some Birds): Everyday Magic, Day 1052
An hour ago, a mourning dove crashed so hard against our living room window that Ken and I both jumped. The dove attacked his reflection...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20223 min read
A Limping Coyote in the Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 1051
Yesterday, I was surprised by how big he was, and how, from a distance, he looked sleek and strong. But then he came closer, making...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20222 min read
Love and Death in February: Everyday Magic, Day 1050
“Maybe since January lasted for seven and a half years, February will be easy,” I said to my friend Kris. She was doubtful since...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20222 min read
Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049
I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20223 min read
Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048
At Checkers, our big locally-owned grocery store the other day, the check-out lines snaked across the frozen food section with six or so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 20, 20222 min read
Doe a Deer Lives to See Another Day: Everyday Magic, Day 1047
This is a story of what can happen when you ask the birds to talk to the deer as well as how conversations in our minds can seem like...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20223 min read
When the Real Winter Shows Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1046
In the last week, the temperatures have risen well over 70 degrees, what we expect in April and not in late December, but my dubious joy...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20212 min read
