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The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041
Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20214 min read
For the Love of the Song & the Singer: Remembering Martin Swinger: Everyday Magic, Day 1040
Martin Swinger, a virtuoso singer and songwriter, died suddenly in early July, leaving behind his husband (and partner of 35 years) Brian...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 8, 20212 min read
Loving Aunt Rhoda: Everyday Magic, Day 1039
All my life, I heard the old folk song “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” as “Go Tell Aunt Rhoda,” and since I had an Aunt Rhoda, this seemed very...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 25, 20213 min read
Loving Aunt Wilma: Everyday Magic, Day 1038
Sunday evening, we sat on our back deck around an outdoor table and a wedding gift from Aunt Wilma and Uncle Ron 36-plus years ago, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 30, 20214 min read
Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038
We are living in a world of rain lately, and according to the weather forecast, this is life as we know it into the foreseeable process. ...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20212 min read
Hugging People As If It’s Perfectly Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 1037
When I walked into the Merc Co-op today, I spied Ardys. After talking a little through our masks, she leaned in to bump elbows. “You...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20212 min read
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
