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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 14, 20243 min read
Birds! Music! And Why is Everyone Yelling at Me?: Everyday Magic, Day 1095
I finally got hearing aids after several years of Ken and my kids repeating things to me loudly and often with a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 1, 20244 min read
"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094
Within weeks of my terrifying eye cancer diagnosis in 2019, my friend Harriet brought me this hand-set-type print of my favorite quote...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20244 min read
Living in a City of Writers at a Humongous Convention Center: Everyday Magic, Day 1093
The elevator door opened on the 16th floor of the Marriott, where I was staying, and there they were: a scraggly bunch, some in oversized...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 11, 20243 min read
The Miracle of "Fast Car" Then and Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1092
By 1990, my Tracy Chapman cassette tape was played into such oblivion (and so repeatedly tangled in the car tape deck) that I had to buy...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 22, 20242 min read
In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091
This weekend, we celebrated the 90th birthday of our friend Herb, hands down one of the most creative and loving humans I've ever met....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 7, 20244 min read
Back to a First Love: Everyday Magic, Day 1090
When I was a kid, I drew. All the time. I lived for trips to art supply stores where I might procure new pencils, fresh erasers, some...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 19, 20237 min read
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
Nov 29, 20233 min read
The Older I Get, the More I Flirt With Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 1087
I don't mean this metaphorically. I flirt with real dogs everywhere who, as I mosey on toward my mid-60s, turn out to be so much better...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20233 min read
What Can We Do in Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1088
This morning, after waking once again at 5 a.m. freaked out about the state of the world, Gaza and Israel specifically, I eventually gave...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20234 min read
Your Jewish Friends Are Also Not Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1087
I am an American Jew in love with the beauty of the world. I am a human in anguish over what others of my species are doing to one...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog
Dear everyone, I'm writing to you because my hunch is you were among the 2,000+ subscribers to my Everyday Magic blog. It's a hunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 17, 20232 min read
Things Come in Waves: Everyday Magic, Day 1086
The weather, for instance: it’s everything lovely at once, then the opposite. I know yet again after looking at the forecast for highs in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20232 min read
Some Things I’ve Learned About Anxiety: Everyday Magic, Day 1085
When did I become a student of anxiety? It’s hard to remember because I’ve been stalked by it for as long as I can remember, but...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20233 min read
A Sound Bath in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Everyday Magic, Day 1086
I start out walking through cicadas, thousands, millions, maybe billions of them — this is Arkansas so it’s hard to know — a tunnel of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 15, 20233 min read
A Sudden Storm, a Sudden Death: Everyday Magic, Day 1085
Just before Kris told me at lunch she couldn’t wait for a good thunderstorm, Denise texted Judy and me, “On the way to the hospital. Not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 3, 20233 min read
Dear Loud Fireworks: Please Stop. Sincerely, All the Dogs & Me: Everyday Magic, Day 1084
Shortly after dinner fireworks tonight, an explosion went off with such power that our entire house shook. We all jumped, Ken, me, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20232 min read
Good Conversation on the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1083
The temps soared to the high 90s, the sun was bright, and Ken and I took to the open road on Saturday for me to give a Humanities Kansas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 7, 20232 min read
In the Glory of Hackberry Butterflies: Everyday Magic, Day 1082
For a week each year, the hackberry butterflies float, soar, and flutter in such number that we have to keep our mouths closed when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 27, 20232 min read
A New Understanding of Memorial Day: Everyday Magic, Day 1081
This year on Memorial Day, my 33-year-old son asked all of our family local to meet at the cemetery to decorate the graves, speak to our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20232 min read
The Most Beautiful Thing is Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1080
As soon as we started driving west from Kansas City International Airport Monday, I fell in love again with late afternoon light play and...
