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Learning the Stars: Everyday Magic, Day 843
Despite living with a man who's all about the stars (as well as the flowers, the grasses, and seasonal migrations of many species), I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20152 min read
Up Late For No Good Reason: Everyday Magic, Day 842
It’s counter-intuitive to have trouble falling asleep right after daylight savings time has stolen an hour from us last weekend and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20152 min read
Teaching Writing for the Love of It: Everyday Magic, Day 841
Tom McAfee years before I met him Believe me, I wasn’t a good poet when I studied creative writing as an undergraduate. I don’t say this...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 1, 20154 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
Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 839
Meanwhile, there is the need to get from Point A to Point B, which required vast planning and exact execution of many layers of clothing,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20151 min read
Stomping Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 838
How close to the house? Very. I wanted to eat pizza with friends. Instead, I stomped fire. Maybe that’s a strong narrative thread in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 8, 20152 min read
Back to the Pool, Whining All the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 837
I wanted to go. I didn’t want to go. I figured I might, but probably wouldn’t, yet just in case, I tossed the bathing suit and towel in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20152 min read
Celebrate This Kansas on Happy Kansas Day: Everyday Magic, Day 836
Celebrate this sky, this land beyond measured time that tilts the seasonal light. Dream the return of the stars, the searing rise of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20151 min read
In Praise of Tea: Everyday Magic, Day 835
By the time my grandfather was gone, and I was scrambling through the thorny brush of my teen years, it was my own cup of tea. Tea with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 27, 20152 min read
Getting Some New Blood In My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 834
I feel as if I just returned from a trip that entailed sheer cliffs, hair-pin turns, long treks through the desert without enough water,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 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
Making Peace with Christmas: Everyday Magic, Day 832
Growing up Jewish, I remember cleaning my closet on Christmas, passing the day feeling left out of the party, and of course, going out...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 24, 20143 min read
The Things of a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 831
One of the photos his daughters found The shortest day of the year included taking apart, packing, hauling away and other redistributing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 21, 20143 min read
A Little More Light, Please, Oh, Hanukkah: Everyday Magic, Day 830
The nights get longer, snow I seem to have gotten through the day of constant crying, followed by the day of crazy anger, all punctuated...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 17, 20141 min read
Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829
Jerry with me shortly after I finished chemo in 2002 When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, I discovered what many already know...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 14, 20144 min read
Carry On, My Wayward Son (and Daughter): Everyday Magic, Day 828
Kansas was singing “Carry On, My Wayward Son” with all their heart on my car radio as I stood outside the car, having accidentally locked...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 12, 20142 min read
“Listen, This Day is MAGIC,” She Said: Everyday Magic, Day 827
“Listen, this day is MAGIC and I’m not kidding,” Kelley Hunt wrote today on Facebook, and I knew at once the truth of such moments. It...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20142 min read
Why It’s Better to Talk to Yourself Than to Listen to the Common Thinking of the Day: Everyday
“They told us that in the 90s that thousands of professors would be retiring, so anthropology would be a good field,” Ken told me the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 1, 20144 min read
What Can a White Person Do?: Everyday Magic, Day 825
Ferguson, Missouri is about a four-hour drive east of where I live, and yet it seems a world apart. In my town, which is far more white,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 26, 20144 min read
The Astonishing Beauty of the Last Drop of Autumn: Everyday Magic, Day 824
There's something about this afternoon: the autumn colors still brilliant, maybe even more brilliant than usual against the backdrop of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 10, 20142 min read
