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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 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 11, 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 5, 20212 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
Feb 13, 20213 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 7, 20212 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
Jan 29, 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 24, 20213 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 12, 20212 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
Dec 31, 20204 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 20, 20203 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 13, 20202 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
Nov 23, 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 6, 20201 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
Oct 20, 20202 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 9, 20203 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 7, 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
Sep 26, 20203 min read
Days of Awe in an Unusual Year: Everyday Magic, Day 1016
The Days of Awe — the 10 days between Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), it’s time to clean up our act. We...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 5, 20203 min read
It’s Time for a Few Small Repairs: Everyday Magic, Day 1015
As the black-eyed susans and sunflowers eking out their blossoms in the dry heat of summer’s end, I’ve been singing the line, “It’s time...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20203 min read
A Year From Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1014
A year ago, driving a mountain cabin to Denver to see old friends, we had no idea. It just seemed that life would go on like this with...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20202 min read
Writing With Wildlife: Everyday Magic, Day 1013
I just returned from writing poetry on the porch at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow to write poetry on the porch of our place. Being...