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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
Lightning Bolt In Rearview Mirror: Everyday Magic, Day 267
I kept driving, but told myself about the storm as well as about the big bright green, alighting on every branch except for those ones...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20111 min read
What Not To Think About When Trying to Fall Asleep: Everyday Magic, Day 266
Here’s a partial list: If it’s worth waking up early and making gluten-free pancakes from scratch. How many cars I’ve owned in my life....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 13, 20111 min read
Living My Dream to Be a Tina Turner Backup Dancer: Everyday Magic, Day 265
A few nights ago, I was upstairs in Dewey Dorm at Goddard College with a bunch of new fast friends (fellow faculty), watching a video of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 12, 20112 min read
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
