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My Ambition For The Day Is To Put Away The Laundry: Everyday Magic, Day 118
I thought of going to a movie, but too much effort! I have a vague sensation that I should clean the house, but that’s also out of my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20101 min read
First Cold Rain of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 117
This outrageously long fall is clearly ending. From 487 miles north, in St. Paul, MN., my daughter sends me an email titled, “So this is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 12, 20101 min read
How Many Birthday Lunches? Too Old To Remember: Everyday Magic, Days 115-116
Over the years, we’ve birthday-lunched ourselves through delights and worries, one of our divorces, three of our ongoing marriages, six...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 11, 20101 min read
Wabi Sabi Gratitude: Write Where You Are: November
Wabi Sabi is the Japanese term that points to the perfection of imperfection, and the beauty in what's aging and changing. It literally...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 10, 20102 min read
The Autumn & Woman That Won't Let Go (So Far): Everyday Magic, Day 114
Walking is the only thing that makes sense at times like this, and lucky for me, I got a long walk along the river and through part of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 8, 20101 min read
What Will You Do With Your One Wild & Precious Hour?: Everyday Magic, Days 112-113
Here's what we're doing in this moment that Miyako, the little cat, is spending her extra hour attacking Judy, the big cat, in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 7, 20101 min read
Who Dances?: Everyday Magic, Day 111
Who Dances? How can we tell the dancer from the dance? — William Butler Yeats Don’t think it is only the ones we’re used to seeing —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20103 min read
Landing: Everyday Magic, Days 108-110
Now I’m home, the cat asleep on my lap (a compromise to keep her from sleeping across the computer keys, all an obvious ploy to say: love...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 4, 20101 min read
Why I Love New York: Everyday Magic, Day 107
One massively big window in a small room at our marvelously imaginative, clean, creative and location-location-location digs, Chelsea...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 1, 20101 min read
Hunting the Haunting in Chelsea: Everyday Magic, Day 106
Having just meandered through thick clumps of crowds around Chelsea to find the parade, all we found were the crowds, so deep along the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20101 min read
Why I Love Brooklyn: Everyday Magic, Days 104-105
There are so many reasons, but here are some: The smell of the french fries at Nathan’s hot dogs. Not just a tree but thousands of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 30, 20101 min read
On the Edge Of Sickness and the City: Everyday Magic, Day 103
Tomorrow we leave the house at 4 a.m. to fly to New York to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Months of planning and dreaming about walking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 28, 20101 min read
Why a PhD, Why Not & How To Know: Everyday Magic, Day 102
When my students and former students ask me what I think of them getting a PhD, I try to tell them everything, including some of what I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 27, 20101 min read
Five Things Wrong With Doctors' Waiting Rooms: Everyday Magic, Day 101
Television: Why, oh, why, is there a television blasting anorexic Golf Magazines: No surprise who brings these in from home, but...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 27, 20101 min read
What Falls In The Fall: Attack of the Osage Oranges: Everyday Magic, Day 100
Sitting on the porch this evening with the heavy and fast wind coming and going, the branches swinging down and back out, and the leaves...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 25, 20101 min read
I Love My Work: Everyday Magic, Day 99
Just had a wonderful phone conference with my students, calling into this giant dark room (what phone conferences feel like to me) where...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 24, 20101 min read
What Are Your Five Best Meals?: Everyday Magic, Day 98
1. On a small island off Mombassa after a morning of riding out on the boat (and throwing up over the side as Ken distracted everyone by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20101 min read
What Hugging Bear Salt & Pepper Shakers Have To Do With My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 73
They came from an episode of Bones, my one and only thing I rush to the TV to watch each Thursday. Natalie and I viewed an episode last...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 29, 20101 min read
Gratitude for Healing & Community: Everday Magic, Day 68
Sometime in the middle of March, I drove our new old Mercury Villager van to the accident site and parked. Laurie was already there,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 22, 20103 min read
Mark’s Memorial and Poem: Everyday Magic, Day 39
That led to one of the potlucks of all potlucks, a whole lot of visiting inside and out morphing into the concert performed by the Alferd...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20103 min read
