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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20222 min read
Traveling Woman: Everyday Magic, Day 1059
Suddenly, I’m on the road a lot after the time-bending months of the pandemic. I went to Wichita for a night to visit with an old friend...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20222 min read
Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058
Yesterday began with running outside in our pajamas to cut irises as fast as possible while 70 mph winds and a giant thunderstorm...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 13, 20223 min read
“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Going from winter (otherwise known as much of April) to summer (disguised as May this year) has plummeted many of us in Kansas into the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20224 min read
Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Cancer is often measured in anniversaries and fruit. We survivors often report in with our years out from the cancer after our initial...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20222 min read
The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055
Sometimes I feel like I’m at a sudden still point between waves of motion and change. Like right now as I sit in a floral chair in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 30, 20224 min read
My Friend Vaughn and the Walk to the House Down the Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1054
“Vaughn keeps talking about the house down the road,” Julie, his wife, told me just a few days before he died. I listened on the other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20222 min read
Two Years Later and What Will be Two Years From Now?: Everyday Magic, Day 1053
It all changed March 13, 2020 for many of us in this country. That Friday the 13th was auspicious in ways people like me didn’t see...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20223 min read
What’s Wrong With Humans (and Some Birds): Everyday Magic, Day 1052
An hour ago, a mourning dove crashed so hard against our living room window that Ken and I both jumped. The dove attacked his reflection...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20222 min read
A Limping Coyote in the Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 1051
Yesterday, I was surprised by how big he was, and how, from a distance, he looked sleek and strong. But then he came closer, making...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20222 min read
Love and Death in February: Everyday Magic, Day 1050
“Maybe since January lasted for seven and a half years, February will be easy,” I said to my friend Kris. She was doubtful since...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20223 min read
Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049
I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 20, 20222 min read
Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048
At Checkers, our big locally-owned grocery store the other day, the check-out lines snaked across the frozen food section with six or so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20223 min read
Doe a Deer Lives to See Another Day: Everyday Magic, Day 1047
This is a story of what can happen when you ask the birds to talk to the deer as well as how conversations in our minds can seem like...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20212 min read
When the Real Winter Shows Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1046
In the last week, the temperatures have risen well over 70 degrees, what we expect in April and not in late December, but my dubious joy...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 18, 20212 min read
For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045
For years, they arrived regularly, two or three batches every month or so that always included one for me, one for Ken, and occasionally...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20214 min read
6 Ways to Determine What’s Your Work (and What’s Not): Everyday Magic, Day 1044
This is a cross-post I wrote for Your Right Livelihood (scroll down for more info.). With so many people I know grappling with the same...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 24, 20212 min read
On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043
There’s something both stark and magical about the time right before the holiday season opens wide and emcompasses us in a whole lot of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20214 min read
For the Love of Phil on the Day of the Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 1042
It’s not lost on me that it’s the Day of the Dead, when we remember and honor our departed beloveds (between Oct. 31-Nov. 2 this year)....
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
Oct 6, 20213 min read
Make Mine an MRI With a Side of Enya and a Rainbow for Dessert: Everyday Magic, Day 1060
Question: How many MRIs does it take a claustrophobe to relax? Answer: When Brandon, the wonderful (re: tolerant) MRI tech asked I told...
