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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 4, 20232 min read
Back in the Porch in Big Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 1079
“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter,” the Beatles sang, and while my winter wasn’t so lonely, it felt unduly long and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20212 min read
When the Real Winter Shows Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1046
In the last week, the temperatures have risen well over 70 degrees, what we expect in April and not in late December, but my dubious joy...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 4, 20211 min read
The Changing of the Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1059
Beyond the lower temperatures and chigger count, there’s something else that truly distinguishes this time of year: the changing of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20214 min read
The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041
Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20202 min read
When Winter Comes Stomping In: Everyday Magic, Day 1019
Suddenly, I’m searching for sweaters, cursing the lack of mittens with me for a walk, and shiver-driving around town for the interminable...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20202 min read
In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994
Each day I crave a clear view of a clear sky, but fog, snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, and variety packs of all this percipitation at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20191 min read
A Quiet Summer Evening With a Side of Peaches: Everyday Magic, Day 982
This has been a summer of porch-sitting, and as eye recovery and associated surprises and lessons continue their roaring hum, I’ve done...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 27, 20192 min read
A Snake, A Wedding, and Faith: Everyday Magic, Day 972
When I saw the video, I was amazed at how calm and calming the humans and, to some extent, the snake were in doing what it took for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 21, 20192 min read
The Power of Blossoms: Everyday Magic, Day 971
Emily Dickinson writes, “I started early — Took my dog.” In my case, I started late and took my croissant, and unlike Dickinson, I wasn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 10, 20192 min read
A Lightening Up: Everyday Magic, Day 967
Daylight Savings Time, beside being a kick that keeps kicking our sleeping patterns for a while, heralds a kind of lightening up,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 16, 20192 min read
Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965
As life has repeatedly, February is the longest month. Maybe it’s the overwrought repetition of cold, ice, and snow after months of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 5, 20183 min read
After 64 Consecutive Semesters, Taking a Break: Everyday Magic, Day 941
I started teaching when I was 26. It was English 101 at the University of Kansas, a gig I figured would help me get through graduate...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20182 min read
The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940
With temperatures rising to summertime and good rains falling last week, everything is speeding into growth around this house. The hostas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20182 min read
Weeding in the Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 938
I felt that call of the garden as soon as Ken and I stepped out for our evening walk around the edges of the fields. “Let’s just stay...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20182 min read
Annual Magnolia Walk: Everyday Magic, Day 935
I love magnolia trees. Let me be more honest: I really and deeply love magnolia blossoms, and it’s one of my recurring nightmares to miss...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20182 min read
Prevernal Wonders: Everyday Magic, Day 932
I love the prevernal season perhaps best of all: that space between the start of spring and before the leafing out of the big, green...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20182 min read
Swirling Distractions of Winter Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 926
The starlings grabbed my attention while I was pacing the living room on a phone call. They poured diagonally down to the lawn, fanning...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 17, 20172 min read
The Peace of a Late Autumn Day: Everyday Magic, Day 916
One of my and maybe your ongoing problems with fall as well as spring — especially in these regions where we have four distinct seasons —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20173 min read
Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894
Photo by Stephen Locke, used with permission The kids were already in the front seats when I arrived at the Coffey County Library branch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20171 min read
Just-Doing-That-Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 893
Snow, do you forsake the forsythia? This land’s Osage Indians, like many tribal people, named each month for its ecological context,...
