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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
Scans For Life: Everyday Magic, Day 956
Years ago when I was in the oncology center waiting room for an appointment following my bout of breast cancer, two women made me cry....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20204 min read
Are We All Just Dust in the Wind?: Everyday Magic, Day 995
That’s the question I kept asking myself as I replayed “Dust in the Wind” on my quickly-wearing-out but relatively new copy of Point of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 30, 20202 min read
In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994
Each day I crave a clear view of a clear sky, but fog, snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, and variety packs of all this percipitation at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20202 min read
Prayer for the New Year & Bonus Posts: Everyday Magic, Day 993
Although 2020 is already underfoot, this is my first blog post of the year, and it’s the first post that will go out to all of you who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20202 min read
In the Last Hours of the Decade: Everyday Magic, Day 992
When I was kid, I fantasized about the year 2000, so far away it was almost unimaginable. Having a birthday in the tail-end of 1959, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20193 min read
Thinking About the Kaddish and the Life Force: Everyday Magic, Day 991
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Kaddish, one of the coreprayers in Judaism and more or less a call and response to the life force. It...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 27, 20193 min read
Where Have You Gone?: Remembering Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 990
Lately, I’ve been thinking about my good friend Jerry, who died on December 13 five years ago. While revising my new collection of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 20, 20191 min read
What Can You See?: Everyday Magic, Day 989
The medical answer is “kind of and not really” at once. As the radiation, removed from where it was inserted in my eye, continues its...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 25, 20192 min read
New York City Wander Week: Everyday Magic, Day 988
I stood in the East Village Friday morning, marveling at a Langston Hughes quote I’ve never seen about falling in love with the energy of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20192 min read
A Bug In My Ear, or Why Is This Night Different From Other Nights?: Everyday Magic, Day 987
I woke up, then woke Ken up. At first, we thought it was just a tiny moth, but eventually, we concluded it was either a blind moth or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 3, 20193 min read
Where I Live: A New Year’s Moment: Everyday Magic, Day 986
I’ve always lived in the wind and sky. From my Brooklyn bedroom, upstairs in a narrow triplex somewhere in East Flatbush, I would lean...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 29, 20192 min read
Panic Attacks, Anyone?: Everyday Magic, Day 985
It’s 5:47 a.m. when I wake, trying to figure out how to fit my laptop into an antique desk that’s falling apart. My worry about the dream...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 15, 20193 min read
Counting on the Other Side of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 984
When life feels out of control, I start counting. I first noticed this habit/neurosis/coping mechanism when I was in labor for my oldest...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 8, 20193 min read
The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983
For the last three weeks, the Amazon burns, and just today, according to The New York Times, more than 500 Brazilian government employees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20193 min read
