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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20243 min read
Riding With Ronda (With Love): Everyday Magic, Day 1,114
Ronda reading at the 2014 Power of Words conference. Photo by Stephen Locke. When Ronda's son Scott called me Monday with the news of her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20243 min read
25 Strange, Wonderful, Annoying, and Luminous Discoveries Last Week: Everyday Magic, Day 1,107
One October week: Hurricane Milton, Northern Lights, a colonoscopy, Yom Kippur, Louise Erdrich in town, Comet Purple Mountain, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20244 min read
Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098
"It's either an ocular melanoma or a brain tumor," the doctor told me five years ago. Ken, my brother Ravi, and I all gasped in unison....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 1, 20244 min read
"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094
Within weeks of my terrifying eye cancer diagnosis in 2019, my friend Harriet brought me this hand-set-type print of my favorite quote...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog
Dear everyone, I'm writing to you because my hunch is you were among the 2,000+ subscribers to my Everyday Magic blog. It's a hunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077
A few days ago I went to my seventh and perhaps my last Springsteen concert, which was (as always) a tour de force love child of sacred...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 26, 20223 min read
27 Things I’m Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071
It’s almost twilight, Moxie dog is sleeping in the corner, my ears are buzzing with low-hum tinnitus, and I’m about to make dinner....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20222 min read
Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066
Walking to the edge of the deck this early morning to take this photo of the fog burning off the brome field and the prairie, I felt...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20225 min read
We Never Leave You, You Never Leave Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1064
I left because it was making me sick, the “it” being the job I had loved fiercely and believed Iwould give my heart and time to until I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 10, 20223 min read
We Used to Write Letters: Everyday Magic, Day 1062
Dear Readers, For last month, I’ve been on an archeological colonoscopy into my past as I sorted through boxes and big plastic vats of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20224 min read
Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Cancer is often measured in anniversaries and fruit. We survivors often report in with our years out from the cancer after our initial...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20222 min read
The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055
Sometimes I feel like I’m at a sudden still point between waves of motion and change. Like right now as I sit in a floral chair in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20222 min read
Love and Death in February: Everyday Magic, Day 1050
“Maybe since January lasted for seven and a half years, February will be easy,” I said to my friend Kris. She was doubtful since...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 18, 20212 min read
For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045
For years, they arrived regularly, two or three batches every month or so that always included one for me, one for Ken, and occasionally...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 26, 20212 min read
Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061
Lying in bed this morning between layers of flannel with a purring kitty under the covers with me, I dreamed in and out of the call of a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20213 min read
When Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044
Kansas roses struggle once summer gets its heat on, but I have found a land where everything is coming up roses: the Pacific Northwest....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 25, 20213 min read
Loving Aunt Rhoda: Everyday Magic, Day 1039
All my life, I heard the old folk song “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” as “Go Tell Aunt Rhoda,” and since I had an Aunt Rhoda, this seemed very...
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
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
Mar 5, 20212 min read
Life (and Tinnitus) in the Key of G: Everyday Magic, Day 1030
Last night, I found that my tinnitus buzzes and hums in the key of G. How did I find this? By singing in key with the tinnitus while...
