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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
A Snake, A Wedding, and Faith: Everyday Magic, Day 972
When I saw the video, I was amazed at how calm and calming the humans and, to some extent, the snake were in doing what it took for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 27, 20192 min read
The Power of Blossoms: Everyday Magic, Day 971
Emily Dickinson writes, “I started early — Took my dog.” In my case, I started late and took my croissant, and unlike Dickinson, I wasn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 21, 20192 min read
Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970
On our trip to Brooklyn, New York City, and New Jersey — aka the mothership for me — grace abounded, often like a slip of paper or wings...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 7, 20191 min read
Driving Home the Full Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 969
I was also simultaneously tired and exhilarated, in part because of the moon the night before keeping me up despite my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20192 min read
Blown Away: Everyday Magic, Day 968
The week began with news that blew me away: a beloved colleague, who was the rock and heart of the college where I work, died suddenly....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 15, 20192 min read
A Lightening Up: Everyday Magic, Day 967
Daylight Savings Time, beside being a kick that keeps kicking our sleeping patterns for a while, heralds a kind of lightening up,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 10, 20192 min read
What’s Right Livelihood Got To Do With It?: Everyday Magic, Day 966
What I wrote and what I’m living and learning is also very related to the Right Livelihood Professional Training I led for the first time...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20192 min read
Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965
As life has repeatedly, February is the longest month. Maybe it’s the overwrought repetition of cold, ice, and snow after months of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 16, 20192 min read
Big Picture Days and Little Animal Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 964
I’ve been thinking so hard that I’ve landed in myself into the land of the fuzzy-headed, seeking solace in deep-sea naps on the couch,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20191 min read
