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Joni, Carly and Carole, and Finding Life in Song: Everyday Magic, Day 337
Having just finished Sheila Weller’s excellent book, Girls Like Us: Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Carole King and the Journey of a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 31, 20112 min read
After the Party: Everyday Magic, Day 336
Like many people, we love holding parties for for the parties, but also for that clean and open breeze they bring to us after everyone is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 30, 20111 min read
After the Storm, the Stars: Everyday Magic, Day 335
Another poem inspired by Stephen Locke’s photographs, this one taken after the tornadoes in Oklahoma last week. After the Storm, the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 29, 20111 min read
Ad Astra per Aspera and the Kansas Arts: Everyday Magic, Day 334
Ad Astra per Aspera: That’s the Kansas state motto, “to the stars, through difficulty.” It’s also the motto for any artist, writer,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 28, 20113 min read
Enraptured: Everyday Magic, Day 333
Photographer Stephen Locke, whose gorgeous photograph taken last Saturday, and I have started a project combining his photograph with my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20111 min read
Our Aunt, Uncle and a Tornado Kitten: Everyday Magic, Days 331-332
Even massive tornadoes can move in delicate ways. Our aunt and uncle’s garage was destroyed, but a china cabinet that shared a wall with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20111 min read
Graduation Wrapped In Weather: Everyday Magic, Days 328-330
It's hard to say where I've been, and so it's hard to say where I'm going, but I know this: I've seen and am seeing some weather. My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20112 min read
How Much Wood A Baby Woodchuck Chucks: Everday Magic, Day 327
A family of woodchucks is living under my mother-in-law's deck, and so my mom -- visiting for Daniel's graduation -- and I pulled up...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 21, 20111 min read
The Rapture of Graduation: Everyday Magic, Day 326
There’s the rapture of the storm this morning as I lay under blanket with a sleeping cat on my chest, thunder and lightning, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20111 min read
Great Horned Owl on the Swingset: Everyday Magic, Days 324-325
I got close to the window, aiming the camera. She wheeled her head around, but judging by her size and mine, it was clear I wasn’t much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 18, 20111 min read
Good News, Bad News, 123: Everyday Magic, Day 301
Growing up in Brooklyn, we played a gamed called “Red Light, Green Light, 123” which consisted of standing with my forehead to a tree,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20112 min read
Cleaning Up: Everyday Magic, Day 300
I have a secret that’s even surprises me: I love cleaning. You wouldn’t know it if you wandered through my house or rode in my car, but...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 15, 20112 min read
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
