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27 Things I’m Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071
It’s almost twilight, Moxie dog is sleeping in the corner, my ears are buzzing with low-hum tinnitus, and I’m about to make dinner....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 26, 20223 min read
Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?: Everyday Magic, Day 1070
Time continually befuddles me, so much so that my last book of poetry was called How Time Moves, and I’m still deep in the muck of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 12, 20223 min read
Tuning In To Realer News: Everyday Magic, Day 1069
I’ve stopped tuning into most of what we call news until after the midterms. It isn’t because I don’t care, quite the contrary, but...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Living As If We Know We’ll Be Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1068
In one of my favorite movies, About Time, the main character, who can time travel, hatches a great plan: he’ll live each day with all its...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20223 min read
What Floatillas, Japanese Bullet Trains, Mishegoss, and Star Trek Have to Do With Writing a Memoir?:
All week, I’ve been writing on the porch of one of the houses at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 18, 20223 min read
Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066
Walking to the edge of the deck this early morning to take this photo of the fog burning off the brome field and the prairie, I felt...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20222 min read
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
