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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20243 min read
I Killed a Deer: Everyday Magic, Day 1,116
"You'll be happy to hear we didn't kill a dear," my son Daniel's friend Dan told me two weeks ago when the two Daniels hauled their bright..
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20244 min read
Hope and the Candles That Keep Re-Igniting: Everyday Magic, Day 1,115
Happy birthday for a 2nd time On Christmas night, the first night of Hanukkah, and my sister-in-law Karen's birthday, we light a bunch of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20243 min read
Riding With Ronda (With Love): Everyday Magic, Day 1,114
Ronda reading at the 2014 Power of Words conference. Photo by Stephen Locke. When Ronda's son Scott called me Monday with the news of her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 6, 20243 min read
Aging Isn't What You Expect: Everyday Magic, Day 1,113
"How are we? How do we think we are? We are just waiting to die," Nanny (my grandmother) would tell me when I asked how she and Papa (my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 20, 20244 min read
The Unbearable Vulnerability of Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1,112
Just about everyone I know is carrying a backpack full of anxiety, dread, despair, or anger, sometimes weighing into terror or rage. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 10, 20242 min read
"Seeing in the Dark": Everyday Magic, Day 1,111
On Friday night, I shared this poem at Shabbat services at my synagogue. As I read it, I remembered how, when I wrote this some years...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20242 min read
What Makes This Bearable: Everyday Magic, Day 1,110
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20247 min read
33 Things To Get You From Here to There: Everyday Magic, Day 1,109
“Don’t read the news, at least not the feeding frenzy of speculation about the election,” I keep telling myself, and for good reason....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 24, 20244 min read
If This Furniture Could Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 1,108
Lately, with all this American political intensity, I'm antsy. I'm also not alone in this, and like others, I need distractions,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20243 min read
25 Strange, Wonderful, Annoying, and Luminous Discoveries Last Week: Everyday Magic, Day 1,107
One October week: Hurricane Milton, Northern Lights, a colonoscopy, Yom Kippur, Louise Erdrich in town, Comet Purple Mountain, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20243 min read
"I'm Trying Not To Be Such a Maniac": Everyday Magic, Day 1,016
That's what I say to my friend Joy on the phone while we each surveyed our overflowing calendars for open spaces to meet. Over the last...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 12, 20243 min read
Riding With Pack Rats and Waking With Weasels of Political Anxiety: Everyday Magic, Day 1,015
There it was -- a very large pack rat Ken was ready to fling with a pair of long tongs into the deep woods, far from where we could smell...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20244 min read
The Land is Still the Land: Everyday Magic, Day 1,103
Last week, we signed a pile of papers -- the last of three closings to save the land where we live. The first closing -- Dec. 15, 2020 --...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 6, 20244 min read
A Glimpse of the America We Could Be: Everyday Magic, Day 1,102
On the eve of July 4th, I saw what our deeply-divided and pitifully-polarized country could be in a Minneapolis city park. Above, around,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20245 min read
We Just Saved the Land That Saves Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1,101
A few days ago, after 39 years of trying to save the land that we love and where we live, Ken and I spent five minutes signing papers to pro
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 2, 20247 min read
What Talking About Books Across Kansas Can Do Over 32 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1100
"So when we look at how a character changes the narrative of her life, we learn a lot about how we can do this too," I told ten people in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20244 min read
Where's Beauty?: Everyday Magic, Day 1099
I've increasingly realized how I'm on the lookout for beauty most of the time -- the gaze of my dog Moxie when she raises her head from a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20244 min read
Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098
"It's either an ocular melanoma or a brain tumor," the doctor told me five years ago. Ken, my brother Ravi, and I all gasped in unison....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20246 min read
In Love and Sorrow For Goddard College: Everyday Magic, Day 1097
Right before I was hired to teach at Goddard College in 1996, the then-president, who many believed was set to shut down the college,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20243 min read
I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096
Truly, and usually with steaming oatmeal and iced tea when I'm half awake. Perhaps I should eat the rejections with a chocolate amaretto...
