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Maybe We're All Trees With Holes In Our Hearts: Everyday Magic, Days 298-299
Over the last half-week, I’ve felt just a small pin-sized hole in my heart, ever since I read about our governor firing everyone who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 14, 20111 min read
The Eye of the Iris: Everyday Magic, Day 297
My new friend, poet laureate of Wyoming David Romtvedt, shared with me this astonishing poem about irises that he gave me permission to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 12, 20112 min read
What Is Wrong With This Picture, and Will the Real Kansans Please Stand Up?: Everyday Magic, Day 296
Today I felt like I was punched in the stomach when I read the news: the governor put on administrative leave the five employees of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 11, 20112 min read
The Birds and the Possibili-Bees: Everyday Magic, Days 292-295
Sitting under the eaves outside the main building at Brave Voice, the swifts and bees diving past us in the fast wind that moves them and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 10, 20111 min read
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Parenting: Everyday Magic, Days 290-291
There’s the newborn honeymoon when I was so glad to be out of labor that even scrubbing bathrooms would have a joy, so holding a brand...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 7, 20112 min read
The Girl and the Luna Moth: Everyday Magic, Day 289
When Natalie was 10, our friend Coco took a beautiful picture of her with a lunar moth on her birthday, April 28, which happens to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 5, 20111 min read
Finding Our Cardboard Totem Animals: Everyday Magic, Days 287-88
Friday, I had one of the quintessential Lawrence nights out, wandering downtown on a perfect spring evening with Ken, Anne and Bruce,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20111 min read
Bin Laden Dead And That Means What?: Everyday Magic, Day 286
A young person said to me this morning, “He was our generation’s Hitler, and now he’s dead.” I guess it’s not to me to judge her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 2, 20111 min read
What Bad Taste I Have: Everyday Magic, Days 284-285
Driving home from Kansas City late last night, a blast from the past transported me back to being a kid, jumping on my bed in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 1, 20112 min read
Little Darling, It's Been a Long Cold Lonely Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 283
Now that it’s spring full-on — blossoms curling up into nothing while the trees leaf out, temperatures in the 70s with a rollicking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20111 min read
When Iowa is Heaven: Everyday Magic, Day 282
Iowa has a rap for being heaven just like Kansas is forever wed to The Wizard of Oz (as the opposite of Oz). Although I traveled Iowa a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 28, 20112 min read
I Love Lilac: Everyday Magic, Days 280-281
There are days that vanish too quickly, particularly many days populating the month of April when there are floral explosions so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 28, 20111 min read
How To Make A Decision About Almost Anything: Everyday Magic, Day 279
So here it is: a little test I devised for how to make a decision about almost anything, notwithstanding that there can be no formula...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 25, 20113 min read
Travel and Non-Ordinary Reality: Every Magic, Days 276-277
Yes, Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City actually had a section called "Non-Ordinary Reality." While it mostly had books about...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 24, 20112 min read
Old Friends, New Friends & Book Friends: Everyday Magic, Days 274-275
Sitting in the cafe upstairs in Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, I feel comforted by the richness of old, new and book friends to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 22, 20111 min read
Living in the Pink Room of the In-Between: Everyday Magic, Day 273
In between home and where I'm going, I have landed in a very pink room where a suspiciously calm (but sneaky-eyed) Victorian girl stares...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 20, 20112 min read
"What Shall I Be?: The Exciting Game Of Career Girls": Everyday Magic, Day 272
The things I do now for a living — teaching interdisciplinary, indivdualized studies long-distance; facilitating writing workshops for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20112 min read
It's Its, Not It's: Everyday Magic, Day 271
Okay, at the risk of being a grammar Nazi, please forgive me: It drives me crazy when I see it’s when it should be its and visa-versa....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20111 min read
Why Passover Is Christmas, My Birthday & A Broadway Musical All Rolled Up Into One Meal: Everyd
Last year south of the Wakarusa Take your light-encrusted pine trees, bright birthday bows on mystery packages and belting out...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 18, 20113 min read
Making Fire: Everyday Magic, Days 268-269
I think the flames look like two of Santa's reindeers It was too much to go home and make fire, I told myself, after balancing the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 17, 20112 min read
