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Losing & Finding My Bounce: Everyday Magic, Days 123-125
Over the last few days, I've gone from Tiger to Eeyore back to Tiger again, but I get ahead of myself: three days ago, I went for my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 20, 20101 min read
On Not Driving Myself Crazy: Everyday Magic, Day 121-122
The cold weather that moved in came easy and slow, and I watched and felt some of it last night when I stood in a parking lot, one of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 17, 20101 min read
Solitude is the New Sexy: Everyday Magic, Days 119-120
SI love my husband, kids, friends, community, and especially kitty cat, but sometimes a gal just needs to go be far, far away in a place...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 15, 20101 min read
My Ambition For The Day Is To Put Away The Laundry: Everyday Magic, Day 118
I thought of going to a movie, but too much effort! I have a vague sensation that I should clean the house, but that’s also out of my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20101 min read
First Cold Rain of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 117
This outrageously long fall is clearly ending. From 487 miles north, in St. Paul, MN., my daughter sends me an email titled, “So this is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 12, 20101 min read
How Many Birthday Lunches? Too Old To Remember: Everyday Magic, Days 115-116
Over the years, we’ve birthday-lunched ourselves through delights and worries, one of our divorces, three of our ongoing marriages, six...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 11, 20101 min read
Hunting the Haunting in Chelsea: Everyday Magic, Day 106
Having just meandered through thick clumps of crowds around Chelsea to find the parade, all we found were the crowds, so deep along the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20101 min read
Five Things Wrong With Doctors' Waiting Rooms: Everyday Magic, Day 101
Television: Why, oh, why, is there a television blasting anorexic Golf Magazines: No surprise who brings these in from home, but...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 27, 20101 min read
What Are Your Five Best Meals?: Everyday Magic, Day 98
1. On a small island off Mombassa after a morning of riding out on the boat (and throwing up over the side as Ken distracted everyone by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20101 min read
Mark’s Memorial and Poem: Everyday Magic, Day 39
That led to one of the potlucks of all potlucks, a whole lot of visiting inside and out morphing into the concert performed by the Alferd...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20103 min read
It’s Graduation Day: Everyday Magic, Days 25-26
Today I watched nine of our students graduate -- nine people who came here to Goddard College with a passion for studying something of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 8, 20102 min read
In Praise of Goodness: Diane Silver’s Essential Project
My friend and writer Diane Silver has just interviewed me for her blog, In Praise of Goodness. This blog is part of a year-long project...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20101 min read
Night & Flight: Winning Poems from the To the Stars Poetry Contest
I am thrilled to announce the winning poets in the third week of the To the Stars poetry contest: Judy Roitman won in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 22, 20102 min read
The Art of Art: Governor’s Arts Awards 2010
What’s Right Here to the 2010 Governor’s Arts Awards Recipients It’s all right here, they show us, the seemingly invisible right on the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 12, 20101 min read
Dragonflies & Inky Darkness in My Baby Rides the Shortbus
Today I discovered something I originally drafted a long time ago is now published at YES Magazine, one of my favorite sources of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 7, 20092 min read
Before Molly Was Nanny: Photos from 1930’s Brooklyn
A few days ago, I got the most amazing photos via email from my mother, who received them from a second cousin she recently reconnected...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 29, 20092 min read
The Life We Could Be Living (If We Weren’t Living This One): July Write From Your Life
We’ve all made choices, sometimes seemingly small at first, that turned large in all they encompassed: moving to one particular town for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 3, 20092 min read
It’s Hot
It happens every summer here — at some point, the sweet days of May and June give way to the somewhat hot days, then things really heat...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20092 min read
How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love America
Last night, sitting on the couch with friends and family, glued to the television screen in between leaping up to check one of eight...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20082 min read
