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How to Build a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1089
How to build a life is really up to the person living that life, but after carrying this topic around in my head for a while, I realized...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 19, 20237 min read
We’re Positively (or Negatively) Electrical: Everyday Magic, Day 1063
Yesterday my phone blew a microchip hissy fit and lost it ability to dial out or answer calls a few hours before the air-conditioning in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 20, 20222 min read
Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049
I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20223 min read
When I Don’t Know What Else to Do: Everyday Magic, Day 1025
Since the riots of hatred last Wednesday, it’s hard to get my bearings. Like most of the people I know, the word “unbelievable!” peppers...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 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
Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965
As life has repeatedly, February is the longest month. Maybe it’s the overwrought repetition of cold, ice, and snow after months of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 16, 20192 min read
The Hospitality of Writing: Everyday Magic, Day 951
Sitting outside and writing at home feeds my soul. This led me to develop “A Leap Forward Writing Retreat” for Nov., 3, a day I welcome...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 3, 20182 min read
From Your Alley to My Kitchen: Everyday Magic, Day 947
Mostly, though, running the alleys means encounters with things I didn’t know I was looking for, such as new stools for our breakfast...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 31, 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
Mothering Hacks Picked Up Along the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 898
We were exhausted and exuberant when we brought Daniel home from the hospital intensive care following some complications in his birthing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 14, 20174 min read
The Growing Pains of Wild and Woolly Too-Muchness: Everyday Magic, Day 859
This Memorial Day weekend, I wrote and revised an obituary and memorial service after meeting with my friend’s family, organized some of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 31, 20161 min read
Just Another Kansas Night Cleaning the Basement and Tracking Tornadoes: Everyday (and night) Magic,
It’s been a whirl of excessive humidity, insomnia, drawings of monsters from another planet, long-track tornadoes, and rusted ice cream...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20161 min read
30th Anniversary for the Royals and for Us: Everyday Magic, Day 871
Of course, there’s huge differences. Marriage is not about winners and losers, unless that marriage is not really all about marriage....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20153 min read
Saved by an Enchilada: Everyday Magic, Day 858
“You were saved by an enchilada,” Kelley said to me the other day. Often profound things we stumble into become the basis for songs we...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 15, 20153 min read
Pre-Emptive Empty Nesting: Everyday Magic, Day 854
When Natalie moved out, my inner administrative assistant rejoiced to have a place of her own to work, plan and ponder. It seemed that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 25, 20152 min read
Listening, and Getting Rid of Stuff: Everyday Magic, Day 847
Thunder, then a long stretch of wind shaking up Cottonwood Mel outside my window. A plane overhead from faraway heading faraway. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20152 min read
Slowing Down for Sabbath: Everyday Magic, Day 840
The linguine boils happily beside the meatballs and vegetables in tomato sauce while just below them, the garlic bread warms up in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 27, 20152 min read
A New Throne for the Queen: Everyday Magic, Day 818
So today I decided to fix our toilet — the one in “my” bathroom, a place I’m very fond of. Even Ken, who was out of town for the weekend,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 28, 20142 min read
A Mouse in the House: Everyday Magic, Day 816
It was after 1 a.m., and I was struggling to fall asleep. “Go to sleep,” I told my sleepy body and rushing brain. I did my usual trick of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 9, 20142 min read
True Love Isn’t Rose Petals: Everyday Magic, Day 786
For one thing, he doesn’t like roses, except for native wild roses, although he’s learned not to insult the roses I’ve planted in our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20143 min read
