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“Life Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031
“This is probably the last time we’ll be able to do this,” we nervously joked with each other a year ago. We were friends, gathered at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20213 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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20212 min read
A Small Thanksgiving With Too Many Cranberries: Everyday Magic, Day 1021
Like most of us living in the ever-expansive pandemic lands, I’m looking toward a pocket-size gathering of just our household and our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 23, 20202 min read
The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007
As I watch the Pendleton’s peonies I just bought rush from tight little balls to full-throttle fireworks of blossoms, I keep thinking of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20203 min read
Cancer Anniversary: From a Personal Pandemic to a Global One: Everyday Magic, Day 1005
A year ago today, pacing an empty parking lot, I cried so hard on the phone with my friend Kelley that it was hard to get the words out:...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20205 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 31, 20203 min read
Scans For Life: Everyday Magic, Day 956
Years ago when I was in the oncology center waiting room for an appointment following my bout of breast cancer, two women made me cry....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20204 min read
Counting on the Other Side of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 984
When life feels out of control, I start counting. I first noticed this habit/neurosis/coping mechanism when I was in labor for my oldest...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 8, 20193 min read
The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983
For the last three weeks, the Amazon burns, and just today, according to The New York Times, more than 500 Brazilian government employees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20193 min read
When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979
For a writer who loves reading, movies, watching James Corden Cross-walk theater videos, and visually scanning the world for so much of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20192 min read
Nine Reasons to Give a Little (or a Lot): Everyday Magic, Day 978
As many of you know, I’m leaping from my day job of college-level teaching to creating more transformative writing, community-building...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 29, 20192 min read
The Power of Blossoms: Everyday Magic, Day 971
Emily Dickinson writes, “I started early — Took my dog.” In my case, I started late and took my croissant, and unlike Dickinson, I wasn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 21, 20192 min read
Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970
On our trip to Brooklyn, New York City, and New Jersey — aka the mothership for me — grace abounded, often like a slip of paper or wings...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 7, 20191 min read
Grief is Not What We Think It Is: Everyday Magic, Day 958
V ery little in life is what we think it is, especially grief. In the three weeks since my mother-in-law died, I’ve ridden a pack of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20182 min read
Alice: Praising My Mother-in-Law: Everyday Magic, Day 957
After crowd-sourcing some of the details for this poem from her children (including my husband), here’s what I wrote for the woman who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20182 min read
I Had No Idea! — Some of What Being a Mother Showed Me: Everyday Magic, Day 924
I had no idea how how much unconditional love I was capable, and before becoming a mother, I only had a glance of this light I’ve now...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20182 min read
Birds of Many Feathers: 10 Eagles, 100 Swans, 100,000 Snow Geese: Everyday Magic, Day 920
I thought it was a bust, but the boon just hadn't happened yet. We wanted 100,000 snow geese, but just saw a handful of eagles, and 100...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20172 min read
Loving Uncle Ron: Everyday Magic, Day 914
It started with gerunds, a grammatical term for verbs that end in “ing.” To write directly and precisely, writers are supposed to avoid...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 3, 20174 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
Sep 20, 20173 min read
Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905
It’s called “putting the book to bed” when you turn in your final version of a whole bunch of pages about to be published as a real, live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 9, 20172 min read
