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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 12, 20142 min read
Carry On, My Wayward Son (and Daughter): Everyday Magic, Day 828
Kansas was singing “Carry On, My Wayward Son” with all their heart on my car radio as I stood outside the car, having accidentally locked...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 1, 20144 min read
Why It’s Better to Talk to Yourself Than to Listen to the Common Thinking of the Day: Everyday
“They told us that in the 90s that thousands of professors would be retiring, so anthropology would be a good field,” Ken told me the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 29, 20142 min read
Why I Buy Myself Flowers Each Week: Everyday Magic, Day 813
I didn’t always buy myself flowers each Friday, and actually, I’m not even sure when I started, but it was sometime in the last five or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 30, 20144 min read
To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806
Now that all three of our children are young adults, I realize how difficult it is to be moseying around on not-completely-fully-formed...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 12, 20142 min read
Death Tour 2014: Everyday Magic, Day 797
Portrait of the artist recovering with her cat Within one week, I attended my uncle’s moving funeral in New Jersey, our dear community...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20142 min read
The Blessing of Sig: Everyday Magic, Day 791
Sig, who also officiated over our son’s bris, wrote this welcome to our daughter a few days after her birth in April of 1992: The birth...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 17, 20143 min read
On the Other Side of Surgery: Everyday Magic, Day 760
Sunset with a tunnel of red light the first night home Time is a strange substance that envelopes us. A day ago, a week ago, a year...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 20142 min read
The Dog Lives To See Another Day (or Week, or Month): Everyday Magic, Day 758
We’ve never had to put down an animal before. Past ones have vanished, been eaten by coyotes (that’s why we have indoor cats these days),...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20132 min read
Goodbye, Old Friend: Everyday Magic, Day 756
The van ferried us great distances: to the Rockies many times for camping disasters that ended in all of us rushing into that van in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 23, 20132 min read
“It’s Not Just a Body; It’s An Adventure”: Everyday Magic, Day 753
This is what a dear friends of mine said about having a kidney removed today. The kidney had to go because it harbored a tumor, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 18, 20131 min read
Musical Beds: Everyday Magic, Day 751
For four nights, I’ve been hiding out from his germs, coughing, thrashing about, and snoring by sleeping down the hall. I wake lately to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 4, 20132 min read
Adventures of Lenny the Squirrel Menorah: Everyday Magic, Day 749
Lenny deciding which part of the cake he wants (he prefers to eat the part with the candles) We have a new friend in Lenny the squirrel...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 1, 20132 min read
The Party’s Over, The Dog Is Back & The Nest Is Emptying: Everyday Magic, Day 748
By 11:52 last night, Daniel was on the long, sonorous train heading southwest, less than six hours before the prodigal dog, once again...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 24, 20131 min read
The Laughter of Men: Everyday Magic, Day 747
I woke to the laughter of men. Ken and Forest got up far earlier to pick up Daniel at the train station after an all-night-and-then-some...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 4, 20132 min read
Inventorying the Pettinesses (and Trying Not To Channel Darth Vader): Everyay Magic, Day 732
There’s nothing like a convergence of the ongoing Days of Awe, when Jews are supposed to look at our shortcomings and make amends, and a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20132 min read
What DOMA Repeal Means Up Close and Personal, and How I Got a Kitten Out of It: Everyday Magic, Day
On May 6, 2001, I conducted my very first (and so far, last) wedding for my dear friends and our kids’ godparents. Courtney and Denise...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 5, 20131 min read
The Mystery of a Man’s Sock Drawer: Everyday Magic, Day 713
Because you want to be prepared for a cell phone upgrade apocalypse What does a bathing cap with Japanese writing in it (in magic marker,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 21, 20132 min read
After 19 Years Our Family Graduates From the Lawrence School System: Everyday Magic, Day 704
For us, it started with Daniel at New York School in a kindergarten class in which all the kids did Army boot camp style call and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 9, 20132 min read
Happy 18th Birthday, Forest!: Everyday Magic, Day 702
Labor itself took a while, but that’s so Forest too. After who-knows-how-many-hours of contradictions, I had a simply thought: “To hell...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20132 min read
Beautiful Birds in the Morning, Stuck in the Mud With Potato Salad in the Evening: Everyday Magic, D
Indigo Bunting, you are so lovely! The day began with beautiful birds and ended with me stuck in the mud clutching four pounds of potato...
