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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20191 min read
A Quiet Summer Evening With a Side of Peaches: Everyday Magic, Day 982
This has been a summer of porch-sitting, and as eye recovery and associated surprises and lessons continue their roaring hum, I’ve done...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20162 min read
Yup, It’s Hot Out, But It’s Also Kind of Lovely: Everyday Magic, Day 861
It’s hot, and it will be hot for the foreseeable future with highs in the 90s through most of the rest of June. Then it turns July, when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20131 min read
The Real Summer Finally Shows Up, But Who Can Complain?: Everyday Magic, Day 727
Last summer, by this point in August, the temperature dropped to highs in the mid-90s, and we dropped to our knees in gratitude. That’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20121 min read
My Hottest Writing: A Retrospective: Everyday Magic, Day 599
Turkeys in our field vying for what shade they can find Everyday I start to write about the heat, I realize what I’m prone to say has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20111 min read
Flower Bed of Death: Everyday Magic, Day 388
I start the garden each March with the best of intentions, but I’ve learned to accept that come July sometime, I will abandon all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20111 min read
Wrung Out And Hung To Dry (Instantly) In The Heat: Everyday Magic, Day 377
I shouldn’t be surpri I shouldn't be surprised by what happens each day, but I am: by mid-afternoon, I feel like a psychic vacuum has...