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Are You the Pretender?: Everyday Magic, Day 491
I was rushing about the small kitchen of Turning Point: The Center for Healing and Hope, making coffee and putting fruit on trays, when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 30, 20122 min read
In the Center of Everything: Everyday Magic: Day 490
I write this post from the center of Kansas in Wilson, which is close to the center of the continental United States. I sit in the center...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 26, 20122 min read
For the Love of Lou Frydman, July 1, 1930 – January 24, 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 489
Jane and Lou All last night I thought about Lou, waking between my dreams to wonder if he was still alive, feeling that sense of Lou-ness...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20122 min read
Note to Self: Don’t Try to Do Everything Yourself: Everyday Magic, Day 488
A few days ago, I wrote about teaching myself to update my website, building on my scant knowledge of code and lots of experience with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20121 min read
The Occasional Horror of the Basement: Everyday Magic, Day 484
It started with a mild desire to haul boxes of banking records from the 1980s off to the shred-ery, a one-day free shredding service in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 16, 20122 min read
In Search of the Illusive Herd of Roaming Furniture: Everyday Magic, Day 482
A bouquet of furniture from an antique shop, thrift store, alleyway and yard sale Finding furniture has been an adventure for me since I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 14, 20122 min read
Certain Slant of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 478
Emily Dickinson, in one of her poems, talks about “the certain slant of sky,” but in her poem, it’s an oppressive slant. The slant we’re...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 9, 20121 min read
The Cedars Are Full of Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 473
Years ago, Ken made up a chant: Blue prairie winter sky Sun shines brightly Wind blows lightly The cedars are full of birds Today is such...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 2, 20121 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
Dragonflies, Inky Blackness & Raising a Kid with Asperger’s: Essay Published in Yes Magazine
It may seem odd to take 13 years to share something widely, but when I first wrote the essay, I was immersed in co-editing with writer...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20111 min read
Seasons & Cycles Wheel Finds Its Place After 24 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 467
Around 1988, Ken took his vision for a seasonal wheel, calligraphied beautifully in his book Seasons & Cycles: Rhythms of Life in the Kaw...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 27, 20111 min read
When Things Go Askew, or Have Cake, Will Travel: Everyday Magic, Day 466
I rushed to the front doors of the reception place we rented only to find them locked. I had a massive carrot cake in the back of my van...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20112 min read
A Crystal-Clear Sky from the 9th Floor: Everyday Magic, Day 465
The view west is expansive, the rising blue of this enormous sky so clear and shining, especially in contrast to the washed-out grays and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 25, 20112 min read
Living with Men Drives Me Crazy: Everyday Magic, Day 460
So it’s no wonder that every so often, living with a herd of men (and a herd of ADD men, but maybe that’s redundant), I feel like I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 15, 20112 min read
Lost in Translation at Walmart: Everyday Magic, Day 459
Why we were at Walmart, hauling an outrageously heavy treadmill with a whimpering motor, is itself a long story involving Craig’s List, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 15, 20113 min read
Spa Day Despite All Else: Trying My Own Advice: Everyday Magic, Day 458
When the article I wrote for The Magazine of Yoga on creating your own spa day was published, I was caught in so much the opposite of spa...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 14, 20112 min read
Dear December, Please Change: Everyday Magic, Day 457
Dear December, I want to like you, really I do, especially since you’re my birthday month (not to mention the birthday month of many dear...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 12, 20112 min read
What’s So Great About Turkey Thursday?: Everyday Magic, Day 453
I’ve got a turkey in the oven, so all is right with the world. Never mind that it’s not Thanksgiving or Christmas (other people in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 8, 20111 min read
I’m in Love with the Ocean: Everyday Magic, Day 451
But sitting right now in my bathrobe on this small balcony attached to our room on the ship, I’m immersed in big-horizon happiness. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 2, 20112 min read
The Blessed Goddess of the Orlando Airport Barette Store: Everyday Magic, Day 450
Yesterday I had three hours to kill in the Orlando airport terminal, which mostly meant dragging my suitcase, backpack and purse as I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 1, 20112 min read
