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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
It's Horse of a Different Color Time: Everyday Magic, Day 238
I think especially of Japan, and how people are finding new ways to survive, help each other, recover and deal with the outrageous...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 18, 20112 min read
When A Jew Speaks On How To Be Christian (Or Something Like That): Everyday Magic, Day 237
Last night, I was the speaker at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries’ Faith Forum: “A Liberating Take On Christianity.” Asked to speak...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 17, 20113 min read
Beyond When Good Things Happen: Everyday Magic, Day 236
The seeds turn into plants, the order to abolish the arts commission is overturned (thank you, Kansas senate!), and the sun is shining...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20111 min read
Poet Laureati-ed: Everyday Magic, Days 234-235
Margery Wentworth (SC), Joyce Brinkman (IN) & Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (VA) I return to the world I knew before this event to find it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 15, 20112 min read
Japan: Everyday Magic, Days 232-233
Dedicated to my dear friend, Karen Campbell I keep thinking of Japan. As the news worsens, I catch glimpses of it, feel my little heart...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20112 min read
Maybe We'll Know What We Meant When We're Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 231
Yesterday was extraordinarily charged in a quirky, painful and tender way. Within several hours, I stumbled into an unexpected...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 10, 20111 min read
Fog Day: Everyday Magic, Day 230
I don’t function well in fog, the blurring of sky and earth and pressure of the air something I feel inside as well as all around me. It...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 9, 20111 min read
How Many Poets Laureate Does It Take To Screw In A Lightbulb?: Everyday Magic, Day 229
We'll find out very soon because starting this weekend, the poets are coming: 20 poets laureate from Alabama to Alaska, and South...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20112 min read
About That Life From Other Planets….:Everyday Magic, Day 228
In a nutshell, there is evidence that some meteorites contain evidence of life beyond earth, but this evidence hasn’t yet been vetted by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20111 min read
There is Life in the Universe Beyond Earth: Everyday Magic, Day 227
It may look like a ghost of a worm, but this is a fossil of filaments from an extraterrestrial lifeform Okay, so we’ve known this in our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 6, 20112 min read
Good Morning, Sunshine: Everyday Magic, Day 226
I took the eye pad off, and there it was: light, bright blue sky with the most pastel of clouds, a pale breeze shimming the bare branch,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20112 min read
The Language of Art: Everyday Magic, Days 224-225
With Llewellyn Crain, the visionary and hard-working Kansas Arts Commission executive director Last night, along with about 400 other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20113 min read
Wichita Lineman In Wichita: Everyday Magic, Days 223-22
Okay, so it was a schmaltzy synchronicity, but decades immediately lined up with the road I was on. I remembered listening to Glen...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 2, 20111 min read
Last Day of the Longest Month of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 222
At the cusp of darkness, I went to a yoga class with Kelley, and as I pushed and pulled myself through the I-can’t-do-this-ness of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 28, 20111 min read
