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In Praise of Phil Ochs: Everyday Magic, Day 887
West Side Folk’s “A Night of Phil Ochs,” in which singer, actor and shining soul Zachary Stevenson completed embodied Ochs in voice,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20163 min read
Four Funerals and a Wedding: Everyday Magic, Day 885
I used to have more of a "Four weddings and a funeral" life, but get old enough, and things start to shift. In the last month, I've...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20163 min read
Generations: Everyday Magic, Day 884
Columbia was where we met in college, or more to the point, because of what we did in our many non-college hours: potlucks with too much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20162 min read
Birthday Wars: Everyday Magic, Day 879
I was born sharing my birthday because I popped into this world on my dad’s birthday. Add to that the occasional swirl or Hanukkah spread...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 5, 20152 min read
Simple Gifts: Everyday Magic, Day 878
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free, ’tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, and when we find ourselves in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 26, 20152 min read
A Startling Implosion: Everyday Magic, Day 876
I went to see McCollum Hall, a 10-story dorm, being imploded without knowing why, but drawn in like thousands of others. After all, how...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 25, 20152 min read
Tipping Points: Everyday Magic, Day 872
More or less, we’re at a tipping point all the time, always on the cusp of change, but sometimes it just seems more so this way. Sitting...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20151 min read
30th Anniversary for the Royals and for Us: Everyday Magic, Day 871
Of course, there’s huge differences. Marriage is not about winners and losers, unless that marriage is not really all about marriage....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20153 min read
Everything That Converges: Everyday Magic, Day 868
Enter a surprising convergence, starting with a great big ball of light Sunday evening. After finally getting the kayaks out of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 30, 20152 min read
Grateful to Be Back On the Old Road Home: Everyday Magic, Day 867
Last night, instead of going west to the new route home, I turned left, following a line of cars down a new road without being sure if I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 26, 20152 min read
Three Rattlesnakes and Three Kids Gone: Everyday Magic, Day 865
On one hand, all is good. My heart is full and calm this morning as a hidden pond as I sit on the porch surrounded by soft rain, cats and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20151 min read
An Abundance of Cicadas, Hackberry Butterflies, and Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 853
So much comes so thick and fast sometimes, like this June when the 17-year cicadas hatched at the same time as the unleashing of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20152 min read
In Praise of Tea: Everyday Magic, Day 835
By the time my grandfather was gone, and I was scrambling through the thorny brush of my teen years, it was my own cup of tea. Tea with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 27, 20152 min read
“Listen, This Day is MAGIC,” She Said: Everyday Magic, Day 827
“Listen, this day is MAGIC and I’m not kidding,” Kelley Hunt wrote today on Facebook, and I knew at once the truth of such moments. It...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20142 min read
Why It’s Better to Talk to Yourself Than to Listen to the Common Thinking of the Day: Everyday
“They told us that in the 90s that thousands of professors would be retiring, so anthropology would be a good field,” Ken told me the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 1, 20144 min read
No More Waiting on Weight-Loss: Everyday Magic, Day 820
“Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts?” William Stafford asks in one of my poems, and for me, when it comes to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 4, 20142 min read
A Good Rain in a Time of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 814
I’m sitting in the middle of my screened-in-porch while thunders roars to my east, and wind swooshes from my west. The sound of the rain...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20142 min read
To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806
Now that all three of our children are young adults, I realize how difficult it is to be moseying around on not-completely-fully-formed...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 30, 20144 min read
Welcome to the Dialogue and Friendship Dinner: With An Outstretched Hand
Thanks to Eyyup Esen, the force of friendship between this event Tonight I was honored to give the welcome and a welcoming poem at the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20143 min read
Death Tour 2014: Everyday Magic, Day 797
Portrait of the artist recovering with her cat Within one week, I attended my uncle’s moving funeral in New Jersey, our dear community...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 12, 20142 min read
