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Brooklynisms, Lower-Manhattanisms, and Other Things Heard on the Street: Everyday Magic, Day 852
Roaming around Brooklyn and the city for about five days yields not just astonishing things to behold (two Chinese multi-generational...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 9, 20152 min read
The Obstacle Course of April: Everyday Magic, Day 846
Oy vey! I spend a lot of time on my calendar, trying to ensure that I’m not putting myself out there too much at the expense of taking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20153 min read
What Is a Year?: Everyday Magic, Day 833
If 2014 was a mouse, I’d let my cats kill it, and then I would, like I do with all their usual triumphs, pick it up by the tip of its...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20143 min read
The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819
There’s nothing like listening to Wagner while lightning illuminates a vast, dark grey monster you’re driving right into at highway...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 2, 20142 min read
Northerning: Everyday Magic, Day 815
Hello, my name is Lake Michigan Usually summer aims me west, the direction any self-respecting Kansan wants to go when the temperatures...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 2, 20142 min read
Running with the Ruling Class: Everyday Magic, Day 812
Here I am in my bigger, better first class seat. When I saw those stark words — “Flight Delayed” — on my computer at 7:30 this morning, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20143 min read
Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811
As a kid, I lived on my bike, a daily ritual of pouring down the hill where I lived or trudging back up when it was time to go home. My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20142 min read
Ellis Island, Where Past Generations of Us Came First: Everyday Magic, Day 810
Forest, about to enter the building his great-grandparents passed through to make a life here. Yesterday, Forest and I went, for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 2, 20142 min read
Traveling By Train: Everyday Magic, Day 803
From whence I come I had this illusion that train travel would be serene, a rollicking cradle of comfort up and down the tracks as I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 13, 20143 min read
Death Tour 2014: Everyday Magic, Day 797
Portrait of the artist recovering with her cat Within one week, I attended my uncle’s moving funeral in New Jersey, our dear community...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 12, 20142 min read
Goodbye, Old Friend: Everyday Magic, Day 756
The van ferried us great distances: to the Rockies many times for camping disasters that ended in all of us rushing into that van in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20132 min read
Driving Through the First Winter Snow of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 750
The darkness is soft and vast, cold and blurred at its edges, and seemingly encompassing everything. I drive down the long road linking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 8, 20131 min read
Hard Frost: Everyday Magic, Day 742
There’s something magical about the first dip into cold weather. Part of it is the ritual of seasonal change: the throwing wide the quilt...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20131 min read
You Can Go Home Again Even If It’s Someone Else’s Home: Everyday Magic, Day 740
Residents present and past Within moments, Adam, the man who lives with his wife in the house where I lived from ages eight to 19, was...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 14, 20132 min read
The Night Before the Big Trip: Everyday Magic, Day 739
The carry-on is packed with care, each item of clothing smoothed and rolled, although on the way home, everything clean or dirty will be...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 9, 20131 min read
Two Jewish Guys from New York Make My Day: Everyday Magic: Day 724
I write this from my comfortable perch in the United Club, a somewhat-secret (to me until now) quiet space in the noisy Chicago airport...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20132 min read
Vermont Wander Day: Everyday Magic, Day 723
In Kansas, wander days have a different feel because we can generally see where we’re going from a long way off. In Vermont, the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20131 min read
Scaring Ourselves At High Altitudes: Everyday Magic, Day 708
The other rafts twice the number of people on them as ours with only Ken, Forest, our nephew Andrew, me and our guide. “Will that make it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 16, 20132 min read
Falling in Love with Kansas Skies All Over Again: Everyday Magic, Day 706
It happens all the time. It happens every so often. I go outside or, while driving, turn a corner, and I meet the sky. On a spring day in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 30, 20131 min read
How Locking Your Keys in the Car Can Land You in Oz: Everyday Magic, Day 691
Winnie-the-Pooh looks very concerned, and who wouldn’t with hundreds of giant Dorothys and Lions around? Imagine being stuck somewhere...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20131 min read
