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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 26, 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
Sep 5, 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 23, 20203 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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20202 min read
On the First Night of August: Everyday Magic, Day 1012
Sometime in my early teens, I discovered Carole King’s Rhymes and Reasons, and like I had done with Joni Mitchell’s Blue (was there ever...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 1, 20203 min read
We’re Just Passing Through the Fire Swamp: Everyday Magic, Day 1011
The fire swamp in The Princess Bride has at least three known dangers, but at first Westley (played by Carey Elwes) mistakenly believes...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20203 min read
Who is That Masked Poet?: Everyday Magic, Day 1010
I never felt like much of a vigilante before, but lately, I can’t help myself. After shopping at our very safe food co-op where everyone...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20204 min read
What is a Year?: Everyday Magic, Day 1009
A year ago, I was positively radioactive. On June 14, I had surgery to insert a tiny gold disk of radioactive pellets in my right eye,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 17, 20202 min read
Breathe In Peace, Breathe Out Love: Everyday Magic, Day 1008
I thought a global pandemic was enough: enough pain, suffering, fear, restriction, uncertainty, and dread. Turns out I was wrong. We now...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 1, 20202 min read
The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007
As I watch the Pendleton’s peonies I just bought rush from tight little balls to full-throttle fireworks of blossoms, I keep thinking of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20203 min read
The Brave Voice of the Iris: Everyday Magic, Day 1006
The irises are falling all over themselves with the weight of their beauty. It’s banner year where they’ve gone beyond simply showing off...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 15, 20203 min read
Cancer Anniversary: From a Personal Pandemic to a Global One: Everyday Magic, Day 1005
A year ago today, pacing an empty parking lot, I cried so hard on the phone with my friend Kelley that it was hard to get the words out:...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20205 min read
A Letter From the Post-Pandemic Future: Everyday Magic, Day 1004
Dear You, Yes, I hear you knocking on my door at all hours of the day and especially night, calling me out of my sleep because you’re not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20205 min read
If God Didn’t Want Us to Pray at Home, She Wouldn’t Have Invented Zoom: Everyday Magic,
Or Facebook Live. Or Youtube. Or any number of places to help us worship together while keeping physically apart and spiritually close. A...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 11, 20203 min read
The Night John Prine Died: Everyday Magic, Day 1002
The Night John Prine Died The pink full moon rose over the pandemic singing through the tree, “Hello in there. Hello.” We listened, all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 8, 20201 min read
Walking With Courage, Vulnerability, and Tenderness: Everyday Magic, Day 1,001
Amazingly enough, we are arrived at the last day of March, a month that has lasted at least 1,283 days in fear, panic, and dread years....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20203 min read
Listening to History, Looking Out for the Herd: Everyday Magic, Day 1000
It only took a few seconds of looking at the NYTimes map of the pandemic Saturday night for me to start hyper-ventilating and crying. At...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20203 min read
Dear Me: Stop Freaking Out: Everyday Magic, Day 999
Dear Me (and Dear Me!), I know you’re crazy-scared about the coronavirus. How could anyone paying attention not be when the closings and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 12, 20204 min read
My Life Has Gone to the Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 998
“It’s like an animal daycare here,” said my friend Laurie, here to give Shay some doggy acupuncture today. She was right, and with two...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 2, 20203 min read
Teaching With Big Sonia: Everyday Magic, Day 957
The tagline for the film Big Sonia is “Holocaust survivor. Grandma. Diva.” True that, but she’s also quite the Holocaust scholar, fluent...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 21, 20204 min read
