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What IS On My Mind?: The Lunacy of Spring Fever: Everyday Magic, Day 265
Not much evidently. It's a crisp day interspersed with big wind gusts, heartbreaking bright, pale green all directions, and the explosion...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 11, 20111 min read
Big Wind All Night: Everyday Magic, Day 264
All night, the big wind blows. At times, the whole house seems to lift a little as the wind finds its way through every slat and crack....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 10, 20111 min read
Driving Nowhere In The Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 260
When I say I drove nowhere in the dark last night, I'm not talking metaphorically, or at least not just. I got in the car, thinking I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 7, 20111 min read
Homesickness & The Squeaky Swing Bird: Everyday Magic, Day 259
Back to my room mid-morning after a wonderful meeting with students, I lay on the bed, trying to power-nap myself back to full...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 6, 20111 min read
The Germans & The Jew: Everyday Magic, Day 258
It keeps happening to me: healing experiences at the hands of Germans. Today, for instance, I had a transformative massage from a man...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20111 min read
The Lost Friend: Everyday Magic, Day 257
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the lost friends — a few in my life, but an experience common in most of our lives: the friends who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 4, 20112 min read
What Kind of Kitchen Appliance Would You Be?: Everyday Magic, Day 256
Staying up last night in the faculty dorm at Goddard, I trotted out my proverbial party question, one that only draws groans from the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 3, 20111 min read
The Miracle of Coffee: Everyday Magic, Day 255
I used to be a tea person, but after a naturopath told me to take a break from black tea, assuring me coffee was fine, my little...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 2, 20111 min read
Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254
The snow’s job is to fall steady and thick all night and all day. The sky’s job is to let it. Meanwhile, my job is to talk with BFA...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 1, 20111 min read
I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore, Toto….Or Are We?: Everyday Magic, Day 253
The call came at 4 p.m. yesterday: would I jump on a plane today and come back to Vermont to teach in Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20112 min read
Will This Winter Never End?: Everyday Magic, Day 252
Dear Winter, I’ve had it with you. Not that I don’t love your snowy fields of peace and pizzazz in late December, the wicked winds that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 30, 20111 min read
Depressing Day & Astonishing (Virtual) Aurora Borealis: Everyday Magic, Day 251
This long, fast-moving time-lapses video in the borderlands between Norway and Russia shows dazzling arrays of stars as green waves shoot...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20111 min read
Dreaming of Tornadoes: Everyday Magic, Day 250
I lived in Kansas for more than a decade before I began dreaming of tornadoes, something I aspired to like learning to fly in my dreams...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 28, 20111 min read
Rock Chalk Please Hawk: Everyday Magic, Day 249
“The game starts at 1:20,” I told Ken, who burst out laughing. “Now, when you know when the game starts, I know it’s everyday knowledge.”...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20111 min read
From a Hidey Hole in Eighth Day Books: Everyday Magic, Days 246-247
How does a Jewish girl get to hang in this core of the Wichita Lebanese Orthodox community, and in the sweet attic offices no less? My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 25, 20111 min read
Happiness: Everyday Magic, Day 245
The cold front powered through, the abnormal summer weather gave way to true spring, and the days of persistent sinus/ear/whatever pain...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20111 min read
The Secret of Life is No Secret: Everyday Magic, Day 244
In the movie City Slickers, the Billy Crystal character searches for the secret of life, which a grizzled cowboy played to perfect by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20111 min read
How Can You Not Love Kansas Basketball?: Everyday Magic, Day 241
It’s overwhelmingly thrilling. It’s astonishingly sweet, even the losses. It’s dramatic as all get-out, and you get to see people fly. So...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20112 min read
The Entertainment Value of Bad Food: Everyday Magic, Day 240
It looked like cat food. It smelled worse. “Try just a taste,” Ken said, and so I did. It was more horrible than I imagined. We were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20111 min read
The Problem With Hugging Too Many People While Exhausted (and Why I Can't Get Over It): Everyda
This time the “don’t get sick” option didn’t fly, and so here I am in my pajamas sick as a dog. I realize as I wait for the bath to fill...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20111 min read
