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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
The Cedars Are Full of Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 473
Years ago, Ken made up a chant: Blue prairie winter sky Sun shines brightly Wind blows lightly The cedars are full of birds Today is such...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 2, 20121 min read
In the Sweet Cusp of This New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 472
After cleaning the house for a party, the party, the clean-up, the movie afterwards, and the driving of relatively young people (e.g. old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20123 min read
Daniel Speaks on Growing Up With Aspergers: Everyday Magic, Day 471
Daniel today In response to the essay I wrote about Daniel growing up with Aspergers, mainly focusing on when he was nine, I asked him if...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20114 min read
Dragonflies, Inky Blackness & Raising a Kid with Asperger’s: Essay Published in Yes Magazine
It may seem odd to take 13 years to share something widely, but when I first wrote the essay, I was immersed in co-editing with writer...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20111 min read
Why I Wish So Many More People Would Go to Therapy: Everyday Magic, Day 470
I have this fantasy of Therapy Camp, a happy place I could kindly direct all the people I know who are suffering above and beyond their...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20113 min read
Down the Medical Test Rabbit Hole & Hoping for No Poker Faces: Everyday Magic, Day 469
A few weeks ago, a friend going through chemo asked me if I still worry about the cancer returning. “Not for years,” I told her. Nothing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20112 min read
What I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up: Everyday Magic, Day 468
I wanted to be the lead singer in a rock’n’roll band called the Rootin’ Shootin’ Tootets. I would also play tambourine, and I had already...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 28, 20112 min read
Seasons & Cycles Wheel Finds Its Place After 24 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 467
Around 1988, Ken took his vision for a seasonal wheel, calligraphied beautifully in his book Seasons & Cycles: Rhythms of Life in the Kaw...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 27, 20111 min read
When Things Go Askew, or Have Cake, Will Travel: Everyday Magic, Day 466
I rushed to the front doors of the reception place we rented only to find them locked. I had a massive carrot cake in the back of my van...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20112 min read
