How To Find Magic Everywhere Everyday
(Susan Larkin)

-an excerpt

FIRST, CHOOSE YOUR PERSONAL METHOD of divination. Go to the library and flip through books on scrying while your boys are at Story Time. At a gift shop in Rockport, find a deck of Tarot cards while the boys agitate the shopkeeper, threatening each other with scrimshawed antlers. Dodge the glares he gives you from behind the counter. Be seduced by the Tarot box's promise to delve into your soul. Tell your fidgeting husband, Chris, that he should go find a bar, and you and the kids will meet him later. Buy the box before he returns aggravated that Rockport is a dry town.
Alone at the kitchen table after dinner, think of questions to ask the Tarot. Be practical. Will you get the receptionist job at the landscaping company? Draw three cards. The Chariot, Seven of Wands, Death.
Death! Overreact. Snatch the Tarot book and manage the pounding in your skull. Look up each card and struggle to string the individual meanings together into a reading. Learn that Death does not mean death. Rather, it is about letting go and beginning anew. Wonder what this will have to do with answering phones.
Get the job at the landscaping company. Even though voicemail should have made a receptionist unnecessary, your boss likes to have a woman answer the phone. It impresses the clients. Make coffee, water the bonsai, and monitor for root rot. Hide books on witchcraft in your desk and sneak them out when your boss is at lunch