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Welcome Home, Egyptians!: Everyday Magic, Days 207-208
I'm dreaming some of Egypt, feeling that joyous swoop of energy from yesterday, and all it says about the possibilities for tomorrow....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20112 min read
Little (Chocolate) Hearts For Hard Times: Everyday Magic, 206
This is simply to say thank you — to those who wrote such encouraging comments, sent hugs and good wishes, and to those seen and unseen...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20111 min read
When the Swarm of Bad News Attacks: Everyday Magic, Day 205
It's been hard getting out of bed lately, and getting to sleep at night takes massive amounts of bad news deconstruction, imaging the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20112 min read
The Coldest Night: Everyday Magic, Days 203-204
The coldest night is heavy as time compressed, the recent dead beloved, the friends facing brain tumors or kidney stones, government cuts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20111 min read
Five Easy Pieces: February Write From Your Life
Start a story, poem, play, dialogue or even novel with five easy pieces. First, do the following: Write a short description of a place...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20111 min read
The King's Speech vs. I Love You Phillip Morris: Everyday Magic, Day 202
Both movies are funny, seriously. Both have incredible male leads (Colin Firth and Jim Carrey) who couldn’t actually pull off so well —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20112 min read
Loving Peace and the Warriors: Everyday Magic, Day 201
I was thinking today about what’s happening in Egypt, and how, at Maura’s funeral, someone said she loved peace but also loved the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 5, 20112 min read
Searching for Windows: Everyday Magic, Day 200
Until about 2:30 a.m., I rooted through boxes in the basement, sorting greeting cards, CDs, graduate school paperwork and baby clothes,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 4, 20111 min read
City Girl, Country Boy & a Whole Lot Of Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 199
Give a dog a bone, but give a man a snow shovel (or if he’s over 80, a snow blower) because when it snows, come hell or high water...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20111 min read
Two Links That Converge In My Heart
I want to share two links that seemingly may seem different — one is a poem about February — or more precisely, our little blizzard...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 20111 min read
Sleeping Under Four Stories, Four Quilts: Everyday Magic, Day 198
The next quilt — squares connected to squares, and some squares divided into Brady Bunch type squares — was made by our cousin Janet with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 20111 min read
Snow Day Memories: Everyday Magic, Day 197
I was eight, we had just moved from my beloved Brooklyn to an actual house (with space between it and other houses — amazing!) in a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20112 min read
The Novel is FINALLY Being Published!: Everyday Magic, Day 196
How many years have I been writing The Divorce Girl? On paper since Forest was a creeping critter (now he’s a giant), and in my head for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 31, 20112 min read
The Parallel Universe of Maura: Everyday Magic, Day 195
Sandy, Serina and I even talked about how this was a parallel universe, yet also the essence of reality and unreality. How could Maura be...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 30, 20111 min read
This is Maura: Everyday Magic, Day 194
Today at Maura’s funeral and the Irish wake that followed, Maura seemed to be everywhere, threading through conversations, smack in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20112 min read
Celebrating Kansas Day: Everyday Magic, Day 193
Sitting the bright sunlight on an unusually warm (thank you!) Kansas day, I was struck by the blue of the sky, the faces in the crowd,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 28, 20111 min read
Night Fields of Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 192
I especially love that sense of being surrounded by the changing dazzle of what comes when we’re not always looking, like now as I write...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 27, 20111 min read
Missing Maura: Everyday Magic, Day 191
Born in Ireland about 78 years ago, when Maura called out your name — and she usually did it repeatedly with great wonder in her voice —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 25, 20112 min read
The Ten Years Ago Game: Everyday Magic, Day 190
A decade ago, I was the mother of an eleven, eight and five year old, all three attending the same school (the only year that happened)...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20113 min read
Remembering Micah: Everyday Magic, Day 189
When the Unimaginable Happened It’s a year now since you slipped out of that failing young body, gone in the green flash between your...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20111 min read
