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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 21, 20162 min read
Winter Solstice and the Shortest Day: Everyday Magic, Day 882
Nora Jones sings on my computer, Natalie naps under a Tardis blanket on the couch, and Miyako the cat bird-watches in the windowsill....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20162 min read
Beyond the Dark Tunnel of Mid-December: Everyday Magic, Day 881
As a kid, I dreaded the stretch between New Jersey and New York City when our family station wagon would descend into the underworld,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20161 min read
Birthdays, Graduations and Charmed Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 880
I’ve come across this bracelet before, like a treasure lost in a pond that comes ashore haphazardly, and put it away again as a relic of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20161 min read
A Beautiful Moment in a Time of Despair: Everyday Magic, Day 876
As I turn away from the news of collapsing politics and ecology, I also see this: the sky to the west is filling with clouds, the wind is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 21, 20161 min read
Prevernal for the Vernal Equinox: Everyday Magic, Day 891
Prevernal The dogs stop. The deer over the loop of the field pause. The highway rising west clears. I wait. Let my breath make itself...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20162 min read
The Light, the Dark, and a Road Trip to Western Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 890
I first presented the book to the marvelous Pioneer Memorial Library, which brought together close to 80 people in the basement for lunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20152 min read
Time-Travel into Fall: Everyday Magic, Day 870
Over the last month, I've been time-travelling backwards through fall. I started October in Vermont, where the temperatures lingered in...
