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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
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
