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Suspended Animation in Cleveland: Everyday Magic, Days 217-218
Cleveland, nothing against you, but I don’t really know you, and sitting in this airport for hours isn’t helping the matter. I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20112 min read
The Office Is Quiet & The World Is Calm: Everyday Magic, Day 216
Some of the students the didn't speak with today (but did obviously take their picture) This desk? It’s in room 202 of the Community...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 21, 20111 min read
After Falling Down the Rabbit Hole: Everyday Magic, Day 215
Residencies make their own magic, and I would even say their own reality except this reality is quite real: what happens here is a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 20, 20111 min read
It Might As Well Be Spring: Everyday Magic, Day 214
A steady bright rain falls past all the windows as the bright blue of the sky shines through. It’s 58 degrees and February in Vermont,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 18, 20112 min read
Alchemy, Art and Knowledge That Matters and Connects: Everyday Magic, Days 212-213
Teaching at Université du Québec à Rimouski, she works with undergraduates and graduates, encouraging them to find this knowledge. In her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 17, 20112 min read
Sweet Dreams from Vermont: Everyday Magic, Day 211
Dark fills the windows, wind calls around us, and the wood stove in the basement sends up and out its steady hot breath. I listen to the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20111 min read
A Valentine Poem: Everyday Magic, Day 210
Valentine It’s all a matter of seeing what is right here: the face of the beloved, the eyes closed, graying lashes on the cheekbone. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20111 min read
When The Clearing Comes: Everyday Magic, Day 209
There's something about a 58-degree day in February after blizzards, bad news about the state budget, and being hit by a fast-moving...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20111 min read
Welcome Home, Egyptians!: Everyday Magic, Days 207-208
I'm dreaming some of Egypt, feeling that joyous swoop of energy from yesterday, and all it says about the possibilities for tomorrow....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20112 min read
Little (Chocolate) Hearts For Hard Times: Everyday Magic, 206
This is simply to say thank you — to those who wrote such encouraging comments, sent hugs and good wishes, and to those seen and unseen...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20111 min read
When the Swarm of Bad News Attacks: Everyday Magic, Day 205
It's been hard getting out of bed lately, and getting to sleep at night takes massive amounts of bad news deconstruction, imaging the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20112 min read
The Coldest Night: Everyday Magic, Days 203-204
The coldest night is heavy as time compressed, the recent dead beloved, the friends facing brain tumors or kidney stones, government cuts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20111 min read
Five Easy Pieces: February Write From Your Life
Start a story, poem, play, dialogue or even novel with five easy pieces. First, do the following: Write a short description of a place...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20111 min read
The King's Speech vs. I Love You Phillip Morris: Everyday Magic, Day 202
Both movies are funny, seriously. Both have incredible male leads (Colin Firth and Jim Carrey) who couldn’t actually pull off so well —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20112 min read
Loving Peace and the Warriors: Everyday Magic, Day 201
I was thinking today about what’s happening in Egypt, and how, at Maura’s funeral, someone said she loved peace but also loved the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 5, 20112 min read
Searching for Windows: Everyday Magic, Day 200
Until about 2:30 a.m., I rooted through boxes in the basement, sorting greeting cards, CDs, graduate school paperwork and baby clothes,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 4, 20111 min read
City Girl, Country Boy & a Whole Lot Of Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 199
Give a dog a bone, but give a man a snow shovel (or if he’s over 80, a snow blower) because when it snows, come hell or high water...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20111 min read
Two Links That Converge In My Heart
I want to share two links that seemingly may seem different — one is a poem about February — or more precisely, our little blizzard...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 20111 min read
Sleeping Under Four Stories, Four Quilts: Everyday Magic, Day 198
The next quilt — squares connected to squares, and some squares divided into Brady Bunch type squares — was made by our cousin Janet with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 20111 min read
Snow Day Memories: Everyday Magic, Day 197
I was eight, we had just moved from my beloved Brooklyn to an actual house (with space between it and other houses — amazing!) in a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20112 min read
