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A Spin of the Seasonal Wheel: Everyday Magic, Day 737
When the world is like this, I feel both like doing everything (make a quilt! paint a room! make hot cocoa from scratch! clean a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20131 min read
How Cats Tell Stories: Everyday Magic, Day 736
Sid cattily winding his tale around Miyako’s neck, yet another cat story Sidney Iowa Goldberg (aka Iowa lesbian wedding kitten)...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 29, 20132 min read
In Praise of the Equinox and Other Thresholds: Everyday Magic, Day 735
Today, just a little past the equinox and into the true north of fall, I sit on the porch in the comfort of a sweater while the wind...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 24, 20131 min read
Go, Thunder, Go!: Everyday Magic, Day 734
Our house is encased in the sound of rain, punctuated by bouts of thunder as the windows flash around us. I’m in ecstasy. After a long...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 16, 20131 min read
Days of Awe Come Around Again: Everyday Magic, Day 733
So it’s begun: the Days of Awe, the span between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur when Jews (and anyone else thus inclined) are supposed to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 5, 20132 min read
Inventorying the Pettinesses (and Trying Not To Channel Darth Vader): Everyay Magic, Day 732
There’s nothing like a convergence of the ongoing Days of Awe, when Jews are supposed to look at our shortcomings and make amends, and a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 4, 20132 min read
Last Outdoor Swim of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 731
Over the hour of my slow journey that took me back to where I started, the sun lowered behind the trees, Victorian houses and bungalows...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 3, 20131 min read
Cancer Scares: Everyday Magic, Day 730
This week I had myself a little cancer scare. A combination of strange joint pains, unexplained long-term nausea, some other symptoms and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 30, 20132 min read
When the Hooks Are on the Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 729
Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun and writer, calls it shenpa, which she defines as “….the urge, the hook, that triggers our habitual tendency...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 30, 20132 min read
Are You Holding Onto Your Seat? One Wild Day in August: Everyday Magic, Day 728
Some days the ride spins faster, and the bottom drops out only to find yourself caught in the arms of an unsuspecting stranger……or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 29, 20132 min read
The Real Summer Finally Shows Up, But Who Can Complain?: Everyday Magic, Day 727
Last summer, by this point in August, the temperature dropped to highs in the mid-90s, and we dropped to our knees in gratitude. That’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20131 min read
Beauty, Balance, Forgiveness, Forgiveness: Everyday Magic, Day 726
Swimming across the blue-green quarry pond in Vermont last week, and lately across the turquoise city pool in Kansas, I’ve found myself...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20132 min read
What Marian McPartland Shows Us About Living Out Loud: Everyday Magic, Day 725
Waking up to hear about the death of Marian McPartland, I’ve been thinking all morning about what this epitome of grace demonstrates...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 21, 20132 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
The People Who See Us in the Worst Light Possible: Everyday Magic, Day 722
Not so much a blast from the past but a little breeze brushed me recently, reminding me of both someone many years ago and someone in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 31, 20132 min read
And Then There Were Four: Everyday Magic, Day 721
For one thing, the vet bill has skyrocketed. Nothing like a very old dog on pain meds and a spanking new kitten who still had his pompoms...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 30, 20132 min read
What’s Good Enough, and What a Bunch of Fast-Swimming Little Kids Showed Me: Everyday Magic, D
I was feeling pretty good about building up to 18 laps in the pool from my previous staying power of 10 laps or less. Then I asked three...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20132 min read
Would You Like to Swing on a Star or Just Swing?: Everyday Magic, Day 719
This evening as I was walking through the playground to swim my 18 laps at the pool, I passed a large, middle-aged man in running shorts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 24, 20132 min read
Raising Your Arms When the Roller Coaster Plunges: Everyday Magic, Day 718
“Life comes at you point blank,” Ken has been telling me for years, and this summer I’m both overwhelmed and astonished by the truth of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20131 min read
