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The Ones Who Don’t Go Forth With Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1026
For many of us, it’s been a Wednesday onward of seemingly infinite relief as we’ve watched a new president and glass-ceiling-breaking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20213 min read
What is a Bad Year? What is a Good Year? Everyday Magic, Day 1024
A friend told me that during her Christmas Zoom with family scattered far and wide, she realized how lucky they were: no one had Covid,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20204 min read
Holding On For a Little More Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1022
A lot of us need more light now or as soon as possible. With the pandemic numbers rising and so many of us connected to people sick or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 13, 20202 min read
A Moment of Respite: Everyday Magic, Day 1020
Shay and I sit on the porch, exhaling. It has been a week, a year, and a close-to-four year thing. There’s still so much wrong with our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20201 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
Oct 20, 20202 min read
Life Comes in Waves: Everyday Magic, Day 1017
Yesterday, we rushed down the driveway to pick up my car from one repair shop to take it to another. But Moxie-dog chased us down the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20203 min read
We’re Just Passing Through the Fire Swamp: Everyday Magic, Day 1011
The fire swamp in The Princess Bride has at least three known dangers, but at first Westley (played by Carey Elwes) mistakenly believes...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20203 min read
A Letter From the Post-Pandemic Future: Everyday Magic, Day 1004
Dear You, Yes, I hear you knocking on my door at all hours of the day and especially night, calling me out of my sleep because you’re not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20205 min read
Walking With Courage, Vulnerability, and Tenderness: Everyday Magic, Day 1,001
Amazingly enough, we are arrived at the last day of March, a month that has lasted at least 1,283 days in fear, panic, and dread years....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20203 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
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981
Arm-in-arm, Vicky, Eduardo, Ralph, and I walked down the snowy country road, belting out “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and doing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20194 min read
When Life Reboots You: Everyday Magic, Day 980
I realize that all of us get rebooted in our lives, and usually more than once, catalyzed by a medical diagnosis, a big loss and plunge...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20193 min read
Naming the Turtles on a Healing Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 974
Throughout my healing journey — the cancer diagnosis and visits with three oncologists, the big-time scans and fears, the joys and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 27, 20195 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
Mar 10, 20192 min read
Big Picture Days and Little Animal Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 964
I’ve been thinking so hard that I’ve landed in myself into the land of the fuzzy-headed, seeking solace in deep-sea naps on the couch,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20191 min read
Looking for Patterns and Finding Them Everywhere: Everyday Magic, Day 961
When Ken and I went to Mount St. Helens with friends several years ago, I was dazzled by the patterned forests full of checkerboard green...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 9, 20193 min read
Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955
The big picture mind-blowing expanses are all around, from a distance golden variegated hazes that upon closer range become crazy quilts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 22, 20182 min read
Working Hard on Not Working (So) Hard: Everyday Magic, Day 937
For a good many years, I’ve been working hard at not working so hard, not just in April but in other months prone to get over-laden with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 26, 20183 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 31, 20182 min read
Equinox Quirks in East Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 933
Nothing like a brisk walk on the first day of spring in East Lawrence with a good friend. Along the way, we saw many more friendly sites,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20181 min read
