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Easily Amused: Everyday Magic, Day 494
Many years ago, my first boyfriend told me I was “easily amused,” which is true, and as it turns out, becoming truer as I age. The bar...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20122 min read
Quirks of Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 493
When I travel Kansas, or anywhere for that matter, I look for the quirks: the whimsical, unexpected turns of land, art, people that show...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 5, 20122 min read
The Scandals of Our Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 492
Ever since my Wabi Sabi group met to talk about scandals, I’ve been thinking a little more than usual about what’s forbidden, off the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 20122 min read
Are You the Pretender?: Everyday Magic, Day 491
I was rushing about the small kitchen of Turning Point: The Center for Healing and Hope, making coffee and putting fruit on trays, when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 30, 20122 min read
In the Center of Everything: Everyday Magic: Day 490
I write this post from the center of Kansas in Wilson, which is close to the center of the continental United States. I sit in the center...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 26, 20122 min read
For the Love of Lou Frydman, July 1, 1930 – January 24, 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 489
Jane and Lou All last night I thought about Lou, waking between my dreams to wonder if he was still alive, feeling that sense of Lou-ness...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20122 min read
Note to Self: Don’t Try to Do Everything Yourself: Everyday Magic, Day 488
A few days ago, I wrote about teaching myself to update my website, building on my scant knowledge of code and lots of experience with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20121 min read
Toddler Refueling All Our Lives Long: Everyday Magic, Day 487
When my kids were toddlers, they would sometimes rush and fall toward me, grab hold of my knee for a second, exhale as if they were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 20, 20122 min read
Nine Years After Dad Died: Everyday Magic, Day 485
Sitting in my friend’s living room this morning while her husband slept in a hospital bed beside us, we talked about the hospice services...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20122 min read
The Occasional Horror of the Basement: Everyday Magic, Day 484
It started with a mild desire to haul boxes of banking records from the 1980s off to the shred-ery, a one-day free shredding service in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 16, 20122 min read
My Poems Travel in Packs: Everyday Magic, Day 483
Every so often someone asks what poems I’ve written lately or where they might find a poem of mine, and I don’t know what to say. My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 15, 20122 min read
In Search of the Illusive Herd of Roaming Furniture: Everyday Magic, Day 482
A bouquet of furniture from an antique shop, thrift store, alleyway and yard sale Finding furniture has been an adventure for me since I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 14, 20122 min read
Three Greatest Gifts of Moving On: Everyday Magic, Day 481
“The three greatest gifts of moving on are forgiveness, hope and the great beyond,” Mary Chapin Carpenter sang today in “Leaving Song,”...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20122 min read
Dance Like No One’s Watching: Everyday Magic, Day 480
I was the girl who, at age six wearing my Russian peasant bright orange tutu, lost her balance and knocked over the whole line of little...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 11, 20123 min read
Hunting for Blurbs: Everyday Magic, Day 479
“Will you blurb my book?” Any writer will recognize the charge of those necessary words as we approach the famous and more-famous to ask...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 10, 20122 min read
Certain Slant of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 478
Emily Dickinson, in one of her poems, talks about “the certain slant of sky,” but in her poem, it’s an oppressive slant. The slant we’re...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 9, 20121 min read
Back to the Drawing Board: Everyday Magic, Day 477
I took drawing classes (for kids) at Brooklyn College when I was about 7, studied painting with someone in our suburban New Jersey...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20122 min read
A Perfect Spring Day in January: Everyday Magic, Day 476
When I discovered the top song the day I was born was Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife,” I knew it was going to be a great day, one that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 5, 20122 min read
The Shaky Joy of Passing Up a Great Opportunity: Everyday Magic, Day 475
Today, I passed up going to a gorgeous island off New England at the height of spring to be with dear friends and do work I love. Sounds...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 20121 min read
Why I Won’t See Scary or Disturbing Movies (Except If They’re About the Holocaust): Ever
Last night, Ken and Natalie were astonished that I refused to watch “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” with them, although I’ve been conveying...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 3, 20122 min read
