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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
A Quiet Summer Evening With a Side of Peaches: Everyday Magic, Day 982
This has been a summer of porch-sitting, and as eye recovery and associated surprises and lessons continue their roaring hum, I’ve done...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20191 min read
Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981
Arm-in-arm, Vicky, Eduardo, Ralph, and I walked down the snowy country road, belting out “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and doing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20194 min read
When Life Reboots You: Everyday Magic, Day 980
I realize that all of us get rebooted in our lives, and usually more than once, catalyzed by a medical diagnosis, a big loss and plunge...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20193 min read
When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979
For a writer who loves reading, movies, watching James Corden Cross-walk theater videos, and visually scanning the world for so much of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20192 min read
Nine Reasons to Give a Little (or a Lot): Everyday Magic, Day 978
As many of you know, I’m leaping from my day job of college-level teaching to creating more transformative writing, community-building...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 29, 20192 min read
Oh, For the Relief of Pain!: Everyday Magic, Day 977
All of this has me thinking a lot about the lengths I could go to to outrun pain, which are considerable. I can’t imagine slapping a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 26, 20193 min read
