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Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829
Jerry with me shortly after I finished chemo in 2002 When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, I discovered what many already know...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 14, 20144 min read
Why I Buy Myself Flowers Each Week: Everyday Magic, Day 813
I didn’t always buy myself flowers each Friday, and actually, I’m not even sure when I started, but it was sometime in the last five or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 29, 20142 min read
Why You Should Support the Best Work Of One of the Best Musicians: Everyday Magic, Day 788
Kelley and some of the musicians she recorded with in Nashville Yesterday I listened to one of the most beautiful albums in my life:...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 23, 20142 min read
In Memory of Pete Seeger: Everyday Magic, Day 762
I grew up on Pete Seeger, his music and his voice coming to me through the radio, the television, and perhaps just in the wind. Of course...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 28, 20142 min read
How To Paint a Bedroom (and Yourself): Everyday Magic, Day 714
Some of the lots of little stuff to move, including wedding vows So I bought my colors, found some brushes in the basement that didn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 6, 20132 min read
Spray-Painting a Bunch of Stuff: Everyday Magic, Day 707
Today gave me three opportunities to wield some spray paint colors, namely bright blue, grape purple and deep green, while aiming at a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 3, 20131 min read
“The Gift Must Move” and the Changing of Kansas Poets Laureate: Everyday Magic, Day 705
This moment is especially sweet for me. My term, which has been easing to a close with the announcement of Wyatt’s appointment at the end...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 23, 20132 min read
Brave Voice’s Round Rainbow: Everyday Magic, Day 703
A round rainbow is called a glory. What you survive in life is called a story. You only see the arc of it after the storm. To see the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20132 min read
Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682
We met the 29 wondrous souls who signed up in October for the first all-day session, saw them again for another day As for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20131 min read
In 20 Years, We’ll Remember This Dinner As So Wonderful & Other Truths: Everyday Magic, D
It was the spur of the moment. It was bound to happen. It was unexpected too, involving the Bizarre Bazaar, a sudden cold front and a lot...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 23, 20122 min read
Bruce Springsteen & the Beautiful Rewards of Seeing Him and the Band in Concert: Everyday Magic
Last night, I experienced full-throated, give-it-everything-you’ve-got, love-the-world-and-then-some joy at a deafening volume for over...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 19, 20125 min read
Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624
Yet my life, this book, Kansas, and haunted houses are nothing I could have imagined. The Koester House, a beautiful home in downtown...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 11, 20122 min read
I Listen to the Wind of My Soul: Everyday Magic, Day 622
Sitting on the back deck, the sun to my right and cottonwood to my left, I listen to the wind. I love this sound so much that I could not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 5, 20122 min read
A 30-Year Reunion, Workshop & Reading, and Dead Bird (All in a Day’s Work): Everyday Magi
Yesterday, Ken and I drove west for 2.5 hours to beautiful Salina, Kansas. Never mind that it was 106 degrees (if we stopped doing things...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 22, 20122 min read
Ardys’ Amazing Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 589
Ardys is astonishingly expressive. The whole of human emotional range seems to play across her face as she sings mournful ballads, cheery...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 24, 20122 min read
Art Tougeau Delivers: Everyday Magic, Day 555
Nothing like a steamy weekend to bring out some of what I love most about Lawrence: what happens when this community intersects with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20122 min read
How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545
One of our early campouts. See if you can find Ken and me. I was 22, living in Kansas City, completely fed-up with the world of dating in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20125 min read
A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a place for the curious, eccentric and more-than-easily amused. So...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20122 min read
Are You the Pretender?: Everyday Magic, Day 491
I was rushing about the small kitchen of Turning Point: The Center for Healing and Hope, making coffee and putting fruit on trays, when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 30, 20122 min read
My Poems Travel in Packs: Everyday Magic, Day 483
Every so often someone asks what poems I’ve written lately or where they might find a poem of mine, and I don’t know what to say. My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 15, 20122 min read
