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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
Jan 8, 20232 min read
Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074
Juxtapositions — putting like with non-like — add zip, surprise, sometimes anxiety, and often uncertainty to our lives. They’re also at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20212 min read
When I Don’t Know What Else to Do: Everyday Magic, Day 1025
Since the riots of hatred last Wednesday, it’s hard to get my bearings. Like most of the people I know, the word “unbelievable!” peppers...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20192 min read
New York City Wander Week: Everyday Magic, Day 988
I stood in the East Village Friday morning, marveling at a Langston Hughes quote I’ve never seen about falling in love with the energy of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 25, 20184 min read
Recipes From (and For) the Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 930
No surprise that food looms large in all my memoirs and novels, whether it’s the hunt for the best fried chicken in Kansas (in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20141 min read
The Oncoming-Snow Drive for Groceries: Everyday Magic, Day 783
The woman in front of me turned when she had all her food on the conveyer belt and said, “I don’t know why I even bought this much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 21, 20132 min read
Honey Bear Solstice Salon: Everyday Magic, Day 752
Hanukkah Lenny arrived late and didn’t get a good place to perch, but you can see how much he’s listening intently to his mates. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20132 min read
A Diner Outside the Time-Space Continuum: Everyday Magic, Day 674
Coming home from the renga reading in Kansas City, we were a wee bit hungry, so we aimed ourselves toward a hole in the wall diner in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 15, 20123 min read
Goodbye, Milton’s! I Loved You at First Bite: Everyday Magic, Day 647
Goodbye, dear French toast! I remember the first day I shlepped my computer to Milton’s Restaurant. Like many of the Java Dive regulars —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20121 min read
My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623
Some of us see our names in lights. For me, it's chalk, and even more miraculously, cookies. When I arrived at Blue Planet Cafe in Topeka...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 11, 20112 min read
In Praise of White Fish: Everday Magic, Day 423
The past is blurry, but you can see that I was happier holding the white fish than sitting on the cement turtle Last night I sat around a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20111 min read
The Entertainment Value of Bad Food: Everyday Magic, Day 240
It looked like cat food. It smelled worse. “Try just a taste,” Ken said, and so I did. It was more horrible than I imagined. We were...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 16, 20086 min read
The Best Pie-Maker in the World: Remembering My Dear Friend Weedle
When Paul called my little cell phone that evening, I was immediately taken by the very still tone in his voice.“I’m afraid I have some...
