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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
6 days ago3 min read
Riding With Ronda (With Love): Everyday Magic, Day 1,114
Ronda reading at the 2014 Power of Words conference. Photo by Stephen Locke. When Ronda's son Scott called me Monday with the news of her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 63 min read
Aging Isn't What You Expect: Everyday Magic, Day 1,113
"How are we? How do we think we are? We are just waiting to die," Nanny (my grandmother) would tell me when I asked how she and Papa (my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 204 min read
The Unbearable Vulnerability of Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1,112
Just about everyone I know is carrying a backpack full of anxiety, dread, despair, or anger, sometimes weighing into terror or rage. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 102 min read
"Seeing in the Dark": Everyday Magic, Day 1,111
On Friday night, I shared this poem at Shabbat services at my synagogue. As I read it, I remembered how, when I wrote this some years...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 62 min read
What Makes This Bearable: Everyday Magic, Day 1,110
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so...
