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A Wedding Shower, a Funeral, a Newborn, a Dying Friend & a Little Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 628
The Days of Awe have been more than awe-inspiring this year, thanks to a confluence of life’s essence. In the last week, we’ve poured our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 25, 20122 min read
In Praise of Five Great Dads: Everyday Magic, Day 587
Each Father’s Day, I look at my friends’ pictures of their “best ever” dads on facebook and in blogs. While I love and miss my own...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 17, 20123 min read
For the Love of Lou: Lou Frydman’s Memorial Service: Everyday Magic, Day 560
Rick, Tess and Hannah singing “Sunrise, Sunset” to open the celebration Today was the memorial service for Lou Frydman, my friend who I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 3, 20124 min read
“You Are My People, and I Am Yours”: Everyday Magic, Day 550
I’ve been at Brave Voice, the retreat Kelley Hunt and I lead in the Flint Hills each spring, and wanted to share a poem I wrote for a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 15, 20122 min read
The Scandals of Our Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 492
Ever since my Wabi Sabi group met to talk about scandals, I’ve been thinking a little more than usual about what’s forbidden, off the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 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 20, 20122 min read
A Perfect Spring Day in January: Everyday Magic, Day 476
When I discovered the top song the day I was born was Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife,” I knew it was going to be a great day, one that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 5, 20122 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
Jan 1, 20123 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 23, 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 9, 20112 min read
An Old Friend Back In My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 414
Gary Lying in the dark on sub-zero nights, Gary and I talked about our lives during this pivotal time: our senior year in college...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 20113 min read
Old Friends: Everyday Magic, Day 402
Last night, some old friends had us over for dinner, a long walk (for some of us) and the watching of True Blood (for others of us)....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 5, 20112 min read
I'm a Copycat: Everyday Magic, Day 373
Purses on a playdate in a Mexican restaurant Growing up, we weren’t supposed to be copycats, and being the oldest and kind of solitary, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20111 min read
The Lost Friend: Everyday Magic, Day 257
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the lost friends — a few in my life, but an experience common in most of our lives: the friends who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 4, 20112 min read
Remembering Ben, A Giant With a Giant Heart: Everyday Magic, Day 165
I met Ben in 1974 while working at my father’s stand, where I was ordered by my dad to stand on an old wooden table and yell out, “Two...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20103 min read
The Best Pie-Maker in the World: Remembering My Dear Friend Weedle
When Paul called my little cell phone that evening, I was immediately taken by the very still tone in his voice.“I’m afraid I have some...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 16, 20086 min read
