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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
"Cinderella Can Itch If Not Sweeping": Everyday Magic, Day 221
“Cinderella can itch if not sweeping” “Initially looked like ordinary writing guidebooks, with typical crisp style dialogue among...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 27, 20111 min read
Red-Winged Blackbirds in a Field of Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 220
In little time, the large feeder was empty, and Ken cajoled me to step outside in my slippers and refill it. Of course just opening the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 26, 20111 min read
Snow to Snow Travel, Night Clouds & Snow Fog: Everyday Magic, Day 219
What I left: Goddard College yesterday Close to 3:30 Vermont time, I walked into my home after a somewhat harrowing 30 mph drive on...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 25, 20111 min read
