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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
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
