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Surrealistic Power Napping: Everyday Magic, Day 433
I just woke up after a 30-minute nap, but actually, I was gone about three and a half hours……or maybe the reverse is true. In any case,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 30, 20112 min read
From Kansas to Peru with Love: Installment #1
Hotel Melodia has a very modest presence along the six-lane divided street of bustling traffic in the San Miguel section of Lima, Peru....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 29, 20114 min read
Finishing Begin Again: Everyday Magic, Day 432
Yesterday, the books came, marking the end of months of editing, proofreading, checking the proof, talking with designers and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 28, 20112 min read
An Insomniac & The Hour of the Wolf: Everyday Magic, Day 431
I’m sure I came out of the womb ready to stay up late, and since I was born late at night, I had a good start already. My mother tells me...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 27, 20113 min read
He Flies To Spring, I Drive In Fall: Everyday Magic, Day 430
All afternoon and evening as I drove through the brightest reds of our fall so far, I thought of Ken, flying for almost seven hours into...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 26, 20112 min read
In Praise of Growing Old(er): Everyday Magic, Day 429
Almost two years since I crossed into what I’m sensing is the second half of my life, I’ve been thinking about growing old. What will it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 25, 20111 min read
Living in Two Worlds At Once, or “Do I Contradict Myself? Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself&
A few days ago, a woman driving me through a pounding rainstorm in New England revealed to me that she both works for an organization...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20112 min read
Written in Occupation: Everyday Magic, Day 427
Around the perimeter, visitors and regulars stand at the gate and film what’s happening. Tourists walk through, giving out money or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 17, 20112 min read
What Democracy Looks Like Today at Occupy Wall Street: Everyday Magic, Day 426
Meditation and Prayer at Zuccotti Park This was what I found when I stepped into Zuccotti Park, ground zero of the occupy movement...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 16, 20112 min read
When Humans Make Places Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 425
An hour or so west (“Everything in New Hampshire is an hour away from everything else,” George tells me), I get to the elevator in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 14, 20111 min read
Remembering Matthew Shepard & What Divides Us: Everday Magic, Day 424
There are many people tortured, even killed, just because they are who they are, and while I don’t mean to lift up Shepard above all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 12, 20112 min read
In Praise of White Fish: Everday Magic, Day 423
The past is blurry, but you can see that I was happier holding the white fish than sitting on the cement turtle Last night I sat around a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 11, 20112 min read
Time To Repent, Reflect & Reconvene: Everyday Magic, Day 422
Yom Kippur begins at sundown, the biggest holiday (not counting regular old shabbat, which counts as the biggest regular old holiday) of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20112 min read
Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas Marches With the Zombies: Everyday Magic, Day 421
Our friends Rachel & Jonathan out for an autumnal stroll “Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20112 min read
Tale of Two Teapots: Everyday Magic, Day
We made all kinds of largely herbal teas for years, staying up late on winter nights over hibiscus or peppermint tea, talking about...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 3, 20112 min read
Throwing Our Cares On the River: Everyday Magic, Day 419
Susan with her grand dog On Rosh Hashana a bunch of us from the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation gathered at the river like we do...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 2, 20112 min read
Entering the Days of Awe: A Poem for Rosh Hashana: Everyday Magic, Day 418
This is the poem I wrote yesterday and read today at services at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation. L’shanah tovah! Entering the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 29, 20111 min read
Raising Money From My Own Front Porch: Everyday Magic, Day 417
Always loved to be on the road even if it was just bumper cars at Coney Island As many of you know, it’s been a long and dark road for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 27, 20112 min read
Return of the Goddaughter: Everyday Magic, Day 416
Now she returns to us again, a beautiful, loving, immensely wise and imaginative 24-year-old woman who is on a roadtrip across the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 22, 20111 min read
Little Delights for the Not-So-Easily Discouraged: Everyday Magic, Day 415
I'm always keeping my eye out for little delights: whimsy on the hoof, strange magic, unusual appearances and surprising juxtapositions...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 21, 20111 min read
