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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 9, 20122 min read
Most of a Moon in the Morning: Everyday Magic, Day 548
Out the south window of my living room, I see it: over half a moon on its way down but still quite high, a pale white disk that looks...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20123 min read
In Praise of the Aunties: Everyday Magic, Day 543
One of our beloved aunts (Ken’s by birth, mine my marriage) is struggling for her life while dear aunts of two close friends also dwell...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 27, 20123 min read
20 Years and One Daughter Later: Everyday Magic, Day 542
20 years ago this afternoon, I sat in a Chinese restaurant in Topeka with Ken and our friend Mike Rundle, waiting for some wonton soup...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20122 min read
Passover: Have a Taste of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 530
All week, it’s Passover preparation: hiding all the matzoh and matzoh soup mix (along with the macaroons — do not even ask where they...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 28, 20122 min read
We Got a Dog!: Everyday Magic, Day 508
When the Chocolate Labaraner (Weimaraner + Lab) chooses you, who are you to say no? So the day after I finished traveling 39 rings of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20122 min read
“Can We Keep Him?” or If You Give a Chocolate Lab a Bagel…..: Everyday Magic, Day
I know you’re not supposed to feed dogs bagels, but when the chocolate lab in our car — who showed up this snowy morning on our porch —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 26, 20122 min read
In the Center of Everything: Everyday Magic: Day 490
I write this post from the center of Kansas in Wilson, which is close to the center of the continental United States. I sit in the center...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 20, 20122 min read
Toddler Refueling All Our Lives Long: Everyday Magic, Day 487
When my kids were toddlers, they would sometimes rush and fall toward me, grab hold of my knee for a second, exhale as if they were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20122 min read
Nine Years After Dad Died: Everyday Magic, Day 485
Sitting in my friend’s living room this morning while her husband slept in a hospital bed beside us, we talked about the hospice services...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20123 min read
In the Sweet Cusp of This New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 472
After cleaning the house for a party, the party, the clean-up, the movie afterwards, and the driving of relatively young people (e.g. old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20114 min read
Daniel Speaks on Growing Up With Aspergers: Everyday Magic, Day 471
Daniel today In response to the essay I wrote about Daniel growing up with Aspergers, mainly focusing on when he was nine, I asked him if...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 23, 20112 min read
The Longest Night of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 463
On the longest night of the year, I strung beads, mostly choosing ones that caught the light, to create a big bunch of light-catchers for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20112 min read
A Small Woman in the Forest of Tall Men: Everyday Magic, Day 456
Kelley and Ken with one of the Kaw kids and the late great Susan Jones When I first came to Lawrence almost 30 years ago, I ran with a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 6, 20112 min read
Still Swaying After All These Years, or How I Came to Love Cruises: Everyday Magic, Day 452
Today, awake in Kansas where a light snow has dusted the ground, I’m sitting still and yet not so still. The ocean moves inside me....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 3, 20112 min read
Tale of Two Teapots: Everyday Magic, Day
We made all kinds of largely herbal teas for years, staying up late on winter nights over hibiscus or peppermint tea, talking about...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 22, 20111 min read
Return of the Goddaughter: Everyday Magic, Day 416
Now she returns to us again, a beautiful, loving, immensely wise and imaginative 24-year-old woman who is on a roadtrip across the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 10, 20115 min read
9-11 Ten Years Later From the Vantage Point of Subway Dweller: Everyday Magic, Day 407
Ken “Those god-awful towers,” my father said in disgust. He wasn’t alone: we all thought they were wicked ugly, too big, and besides,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20113 min read
Going Back to High School: Everyday Magic, Day 393
In August each year, Ken and I go back to high school. Standing in line with the other parents, who noodle into longer and thicker lines...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20111 min read
Roses From My Father-in-Law (Even Though He's Dead): Everyday Magic, Day 392
After a day, I realized that to my shame, Gene didn’t just buy me roses but my mother-in-law also. Both of us would receive a dozen or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20112 min read
A Flat Tire On A Cobblestone Street In 104 Degrees: Everyday Magic, Day 374
Not a moment I want to relive. I turned a corner too fast, ran over a little bit of curb, and blew out a back tire, which might not be...
