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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
“God’s Got You, Baby”: Everyday Magic, Day 976
That’s what Cynthia said as she led me back to the surgery prep room when I told her I was scared. “And don’t you worry because God made...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 17, 20193 min read
Preparing to Be Unprepared and Other Quirks of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 975
As I get ready for surgery at high noon on Friday to implant a teeny-tiny gold bowl bearing radiation under my right eye, I realize how...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20193 min read
Naming the Turtles on a Healing Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 974
Throughout my healing journey — the cancer diagnosis and visits with three oncologists, the big-time scans and fears, the joys and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 27, 20195 min read
You As a Poem (for Denise Low): Everyday Magic, Day 973
You As a Poem for Denise The poem would rise from fossils and columbarium time-traveled from your memory or the continent’s, through two...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20192 min read
Back at the Cancer Rodeo: Everyday Magic, Day 972
When I had breast cancer 17 years ago, I learned some things about resilience, the ability to bounce back. There’s nothing like being...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 1, 20194 min read
