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Rematerializing After Being Beamed Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1036
In the Star Trek shows and films, someone can yell out, with grave urgency or casual cheer, “Scotty, beam me up” then off they go. But...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 23, 20213 min read
A Guide to Your Vaccine Sorting Hat Horoscope: Everyday Magic, Day 1035
As more of us absorb the wizardry of the vaccine, where we end up might well be up to the whims of an enchanted sorting hat, just like in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 8, 20213 min read
A Love Letter to Shay: For the Love of a Dog: Everyday Magic, Day 1034
Y ou just showed up one winter day, nose to nose with our labmatian (lab-dalmatian) Mariah, only the glass of the screen door between...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20219 min read
A Visit to Scan Land: Everyday Magic, Day 1033
“I’m here for my monogram,” a silver-haired woman told the receptionist. “Yes, your mammogram,” the receptionist answered without missing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20213 min read
In Praise of Goody: Everyday Magic, Day 1032
“The world will never be the same,” Ken told me right after Goody Garfield’s burial service. “We were witness to one of a kind, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20213 min read
“Life Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031
“This is probably the last time we’ll be able to do this,” we nervously joked with each other a year ago. We were friends, gathered at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20213 min read
Life (and Tinnitus) in the Key of G: Everyday Magic, Day 1030
Last night, I found that my tinnitus buzzes and hums in the key of G. How did I find this? By singing in key with the tinnitus while...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20212 min read
Birds Are the Best Thing About Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 1029
When the temperature gets near or below zero, survival comes into sharper focus for us all, but so do birds and their survival without...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20213 min read
Palliative Care or Palling Around? Everyday Magic, Day 1028
Shay the dog is an elderly gentleman with a lot of problems that could be careening him to the brink of the rainbow bridge soon. He has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20212 min read
What’s In Your Mystery Box?: Everyday Magic , Day 1027
On the phone with my cousin Richard last night, we talked about how life gives you materials you don’t often sign up for, then you have...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20212 min read
The Ones Who Don’t Go Forth With Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1026
For many of us, it’s been a Wednesday onward of seemingly infinite relief as we’ve watched a new president and glass-ceiling-breaking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20213 min read
When I Don’t Know What Else to Do: Everyday Magic, Day 1025
Since the riots of hatred last Wednesday, it’s hard to get my bearings. Like most of the people I know, the word “unbelievable!” peppers...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20212 min read
What is a Bad Year? What is a Good Year? Everyday Magic, Day 1024
A friend told me that during her Christmas Zoom with family scattered far and wide, she realized how lucky they were: no one had Covid,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20204 min read
A Solstice Like No Other: Everyday Magic, Day 1023
I am thinking of two realities: that over 300,000 people in this country have died from COVID-19 and that we’re on the cusp of the winter...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 20, 20203 min read
Holding On For a Little More Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1022
A lot of us need more light now or as soon as possible. With the pandemic numbers rising and so many of us connected to people sick or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 13, 20202 min read
A Small Thanksgiving With Too Many Cranberries: Everyday Magic, Day 1021
Like most of us living in the ever-expansive pandemic lands, I’m looking toward a pocket-size gathering of just our household and our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 23, 20202 min read
A Moment of Respite: Everyday Magic, Day 1020
Shay and I sit on the porch, exhaling. It has been a week, a year, and a close-to-four year thing. There’s still so much wrong with our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20201 min read
When Winter Comes Stomping In: Everyday Magic, Day 1019
Suddenly, I’m searching for sweaters, cursing the lack of mittens with me for a walk, and shiver-driving around town for the interminable...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20202 min read
Why I Won’t Watch the Debates: Everyday Magic, Day 1018
Gaslighting. What a useful word that, when I first heard it, snapped a whole lot of abuse and shaming I suffered into a new and true...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Life Comes in Waves: Everyday Magic, Day 1017
Yesterday, we rushed down the driveway to pick up my car from one repair shop to take it to another. But Moxie-dog chased us down the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20203 min read
