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A Love Letter to Shay: For the Love of a Dog: Everyday Magic, Day 1034
Y ou just showed up one winter day, nose to nose with our labmatian (lab-dalmatian) Mariah, only the glass of the screen door between...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20219 min read
Birds Are the Best Thing About Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 1029
When the temperature gets near or below zero, survival comes into sharper focus for us all, but so do birds and their survival without...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20213 min read
Palliative Care or Palling Around? Everyday Magic, Day 1028
Shay the dog is an elderly gentleman with a lot of problems that could be careening him to the brink of the rainbow bridge soon. He has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20212 min read
A Moment of Respite: Everyday Magic, Day 1020
Shay and I sit on the porch, exhaling. It has been a week, a year, and a close-to-four year thing. There’s still so much wrong with our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20201 min read
Writing With Wildlife: Everyday Magic, Day 1013
I just returned from writing poetry on the porch at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow to write poetry on the porch of our place. Being...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20202 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962
I can’t remember when I first encountered Oliver’s poetry, but I know this: it wasn’t when I was doing a PhD in poetry despite my comps...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20194 min read
“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949
In one of Rumi's poems, I love these lines especially: Reach your long hands out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 8, 20183 min read
Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam!: Everyday Magic, Day 902
While the buffalo didn’t arrive, getting to share the news on Facebook, not nearly as exciting as getting a small herd, did have it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20171 min read
Calicoco, the Flying Ninja Cat, or Why You Shouldn't Put a Feral Kitty in Your Bathroom: Everyd
There’s white fur on the bathroom mirror, bath curtain rod, and bedroom windows from Calicoco, the feral cat I stupidly thought I could...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 16, 20174 min read
A Charm of Teenager Hummingbirds: Everyday Magic, Day 872
A bunch of hummingbirds is called a charm, a delight and an adornment, and for the last few months, I’ve been blessed to have my view...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 10, 20162 min read
Pet World and the Real Magic of Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 886
This was the Pet World re-opening eight months after a devastating fire killed many a reptile, all the fish, a kitten, and many other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 27, 20162 min read
