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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 30, 20214 min read
Loving Aunt Wilma: Everyday Magic, Day 1038
Sunday evening, we sat on our back deck around an outdoor table and a wedding gift from Aunt Wilma and Uncle Ron 36-plus years ago, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20212 min read
Hugging People As If It’s Perfectly Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 1037
When I walked into the Merc Co-op today, I spied Ardys. After talking a little through our masks, she leaned in to bump elbows. “You...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20213 min read
In Praise of Goody: Everyday Magic, Day 1032
“The world will never be the same,” Ken told me right after Goody Garfield’s burial service. “We were witness to one of a kind, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20204 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 20, 20203 min read
A Solstice Like No Other: Everyday Magic, Day 1023
I am thinking of two realities: that over 300,000 people in this country have died from COVID-19 and that we’re on the cusp of the winter...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 26, 20203 min read
Days of Awe in an Unusual Year: Everyday Magic, Day 1016
The Days of Awe — the 10 days between Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), it’s time to clean up our act. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20204 min read
Who is That Masked Poet?: Everyday Magic, Day 1010
I never felt like much of a vigilante before, but lately, I can’t help myself. After shopping at our very safe food co-op where everyone...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 1, 20202 min read
Breathe In Peace, Breathe Out Love: Everyday Magic, Day 1008
I thought a global pandemic was enough: enough pain, suffering, fear, restriction, uncertainty, and dread. Turns out I was wrong. We now...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 11, 20203 min read
If God Didn’t Want Us to Pray at Home, She Wouldn’t Have Invented Zoom: Everyday Magic,
Or Facebook Live. Or Youtube. Or any number of places to help us worship together while keeping physically apart and spiritually close. A...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20203 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 19, 20203 min read
Listening to History, Looking Out for the Herd: Everyday Magic, Day 1000
It only took a few seconds of looking at the NYTimes map of the pandemic Saturday night for me to start hyper-ventilating and crying. At...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 12, 20204 min read
Dear Me: Stop Freaking Out: Everyday Magic, Day 999
Dear Me (and Dear Me!), I know you’re crazy-scared about the coronavirus. How could anyone paying attention not be when the closings and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20193 min read
Oh, For the Relief of Pain!: Everyday Magic, Day 977
All of this has me thinking a lot about the lengths I could go to to outrun pain, which are considerable. I can’t imagine slapping a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 17, 20193 min read
“God’s Got You, Baby”: Everyday Magic, Day 976
That’s what Cynthia said as she led me back to the surgery prep room when I told her I was scared. “And don’t you worry because God made...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 1, 20194 min read
Back at the Cancer Rodeo: Everyday Magic, Day 972
When I had breast cancer 17 years ago, I learned some things about resilience, the ability to bounce back. There’s nothing like being...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 15, 20192 min read
Blown Away: Everyday Magic, Day 968
The week began with news that blew me away: a beloved colleague, who was the rock and heart of the college where I work, died suddenly....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20183 min read
Surprises From 2018: Everyday Magic, Day 960
In reading Kate Bowler’s evocative essay, “How Cancer Changes Hope” and revising poems for my next book, How Times Moves, I’ve been...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 29, 20183 min read
Look for the Miriams: Everyday Magic, Day 956
A few hours after the Tree of Life shooting, we clung to each other — singing, praying, crying — at the Beth Israel Center in Madison,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 20173 min read
Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912
I think of people in central Mexico, working frantically to unearth possible survivors from collapsed buildings from the 7.1 earthquake...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 30, 20172 min read
In Gratitude for Nancy O'Connor: Everyday Magic, Day 907
Community Mercantile, just celebrated its marvelous school garden project at West Junior High School and the person who founded the...
