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Astonishingly Good Inventions In Our Lifetime: Everyday Magic, Day 738
What a digital camera gives us in a flash Driving through town the other day, it occurred to me how many good inventions have come about...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20133 min read
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
