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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20243 min read
25 Strange, Wonderful, Annoying, and Luminous Discoveries Last Week: Everyday Magic, Day 1,107
One October week: Hurricane Milton, Northern Lights, a colonoscopy, Yom Kippur, Louise Erdrich in town, Comet Purple Mountain, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 14, 20243 min read
Birds! Music! And Why is Everyone Yelling at Me?: Everyday Magic, Day 1095
I finally got hearing aids after several years of Ken and my kids repeating things to me loudly and often with a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 26, 20212 min read
Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061
Lying in bed this morning between layers of flannel with a purring kitty under the covers with me, I dreamed in and out of the call of a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 17, 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
Jul 9, 20172 min read
Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905
It’s called “putting the book to bed” when you turn in your final version of a whole bunch of pages about to be published as a real, live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20173 min read
We're All Such Delicate Creatures, But At Least We're In Good Company: Everyday Magic, Day 895
Everyone I know has something hard to live or live with: the everyday heartbreak of going on when a greatly beloved is dead or gone, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20164 min read
Voting for All the Girls, Women, and Beyond-Gender-People We Love, Know, Were or Are
When I walk into the voting booth Tuesday and pencil in the bubble for Clinton/Kaine, I have no doubt I’ll be crying in hope for who I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 8, 201621 min read
Surviving with Gumption & Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 875
Days of Caring event in Hays, Kansas — a luncheon and fashion show to raise awareness about breast cancer. Here’s the talk I gave,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 3, 20163 min read
A Young Woman in the Land of Yoga: Everyday Magic, Day 867
Your Yoga in Minneapolis, a fine yoga center and school, six years after she first fell for yoga. When I visited with her in June, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20164 min read
Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860
Celebrating Claudia’s birthday at the concert with Michel Loomis Listening to the astonishingly spirited Claudia Schmidt perform a house...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 5, 20162 min read
Digging into What’s Mine to Chill Out the Fixer-Bee: Everyday Magic 856
In the past week, because I was on a mini vacation (when the shit always seems to especially hit the fan), I kept bumping into my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 16, 20163 min read
What’s So Good About Being Sick? Everyday Magic 895
Sometimes the body says, “Stop!” in the most eloquent language it can, a slim intuition that lands sweetly in the center of our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20152 min read
When the Ocean is There, Jump In: Everyday Magic, Day 875
Living in Kansas, where both swimming in salt water, let alone oceans, and seeing dolphins (which I saw both days) is usually something...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 4, 20142 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
Aug 7, 20142 min read
Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811
As a kid, I lived on my bike, a daily ritual of pouring down the hill where I lived or trudging back up when it was time to go home. My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20142 min read
Back in the Swim of Things: Everyday Magic, Day 801
Today it was back to the city pool for the first time since late last August. I paid my money, drank my water, took off my cover-up and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 23, 20132 min read
“It’s Not Just a Body; It’s An Adventure”: Everyday Magic, Day 753
This is what a dear friends of mine said about having a kidney removed today. The kidney had to go because it harbored a tumor, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20132 min read
Beauty, Balance, Forgiveness, Forgiveness: Everyday Magic, Day 726
Swimming across the blue-green quarry pond in Vermont last week, and lately across the turquoise city pool in Kansas, I’ve found myself...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20132 min read
What’s Good Enough, and What a Bunch of Fast-Swimming Little Kids Showed Me: Everyday Magic, D
I was feeling pretty good about building up to 18 laps in the pool from my previous staying power of 10 laps or less. Then I asked three...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 3, 20132 min read
Getting Into the Swim of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 712
Strangely enough, jumping into a pool and doing laps has topped my list of what I feel like doing at any given moment, even surpassing...
