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A New Place, An Old City & Some Sweet Rewards in Tennessee: Everyday Magic, Day 683
This evening, we wandered downtown Knoxville, home to our son Daniel, but a brand new city to me. I was instantly enamored with the old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 14, 20131 min read
Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682
We met the 29 wondrous souls who signed up in October for the first all-day session, saw them again for another day As for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20131 min read
Missing Hadassah: Everyday Magic, Day 681
Two weeks ago, I got the call from Hadassah’s son: she only had a few hours left, and since she gave me her funeral wishes, could I send...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 28, 20134 min read
Homing In: Everyday Magic, Day 680
The world of travel farce is narrow and treacherous. What wouldn’t shake me much in ordinary life level me here. My burrowing animal...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20133 min read
Back to the Bus: Everyday Magic, Day 679
I used to be a regular on the cross-country bus, my main mode of flinging myself the 1000-miles-plus between college in the Midwest and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 23, 20133 min read
Turns Lemons in Bagels & Lox: Everyday Magic, Day 678
Dinner on the way When travel plans fall apart, my tendency is to fall apart with them, but weeping at airline ticket counters tends to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20132 min read
When the View Changes: Everyday Magic, Day 677
Now, as if it’s an ordinary day, which it kind of is, I sit in Capitol Grinds, my coffee shop hangout in Montpelier, Vermont. Ahead is a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20132 min read
I Wanted An Enchilada, I Got a Prairie Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 676
I didn’t feel like bundling up so I could strip down as I dragged fire through the cold, but it was the right thing to do because I live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 8, 20132 min read
I Was President of the United States, and Jimmy Carter Was In My Living Room: Everyday Magic, Day 67
Then I woke up. But while I was asleep, I had an adventure of the presidential sort. It turned out that, one day after throwing my hat in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20132 min read
A Diner Outside the Time-Space Continuum: Everyday Magic, Day 674
Coming home from the renga reading in Kansas City, we were a wee bit hungry, so we aimed ourselves toward a hole in the wall diner in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20132 min read
The Wild Things We Get to Do When We Get Old(er): Everyday Magic, Day 673
I’ve run through graveyards naked in college, danced with a frying pan after drinking generic vodka and powered milk, and done road trips...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 28, 20132 min read
What a Renga Can Do: Everyday Magic, Day 672
Hearing people read their sections aloud, I noticed all kinds of nuances and gestures in the language that I had missed when reading the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 27, 20132 min read
When the Given-Up-On Comes Strolling Home: Everyday Magic, Day 671
Cookbooks rejuggled reveal new recipes I felt a wee bit depressed today, and truth be told, for the last five days, thanks to a nasty...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20132 min read
My Imaginary Father on the 10th Anniversary of His Death: Everyday Magic, Day 670
I also went to services at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation, which made me remember the last time Dad had been to this little...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20132 min read
The Mystery of Lost Things Returning (or Not): Everyday Magic, Day 669
During the holiday influx of people, chocolate, more people, extra caffeine, lots of aspirin, occasional gifts and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 10, 20132 min read
Old Boyfriends and Strange Tales of Just Trying to Get Loved: Everyday Magic, Day 668
Today I noticed on facebook it was the birthday of an old boyfriend, which got me remembering stories about other old boyfriends, and all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20133 min read
The Quiet In Between: Everday Magic, Day 667
Although it’s mid-morning, it could be the middle of the night here. The dogs sleep (thankfully for Shay, who spent hours pacing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 20131 min read
Saving My Dog, Who Was Saving Us, From Coyotes: Everyday Magic, Day 666
Rewind to six hours earlier when, getting ready to go to the home of friends for a special dinner, I asked my family, “Where’s Shay?” No...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20133 min read
Last Morning of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 665
It’s the last morning of 2012, a year that doesn’t translate for me easily into a phrase or two. It was hotter than hell. The drought did...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20122 min read
The Morning After the Party: Everyday Magic, Day 664
Mariah, worn out by sleeping through the parties The morning after the party has always been a time of curious calm and delight for me in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20122 min read
