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Your Right Livelihood: Join Kathryn Lorenzen and me for an 8-week class Jan. 19-Mar. 23 on your callings and work and/or for a weekend retreat April 1-3. Sign up for our free guide and for Life & Livelihood Small Group Coaching 1/4/22 here.

Brave Voice: Writing & Singing For Your Life: Kelley Hunt and my next (our 17th annual) Brave Voice is May 15-20. More here.

How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems: Read my new collection of poems, all about time, home, and love, plus the best of my six previous books. More here!

Doe a Deer Lives to See Another Day: Everyday Magic, Day 1047

January 8, 2022

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 they really occurred. It also has something to do with how you can take the girl out of Brooklyn and New Jersey, but you can’t easily

When the Real Winter Shows Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1046

December 29, 2021

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 and relief from those balmy days has crashed into the reality of winter, which is a relief. It’s also a drudgery. Today, it’s overcast, and the world is pewter-cold.

For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

December 18, 2021

For years, they arrived regularly, two or three batches every month or so that always included one for me, one for Ken, and occasionally one for our kids. Mike Watoma’s postcards, each a work of art, were a mainstay of our mailbox and of many others’ mailboxes too. About a week ago, Mike, who was

6 Ways to Determine What's Your Work (and What's Not): Everyday Magic, Day 1044

December 9, 2021

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 issue, I thought I’d share it here. I love my work but I have a tendency, to paraphrase the Oklahoma song, to be a gal who can’t say no. Yet

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

November 24, 2021

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 baking, cooking, driving to the airport to pick up or being the ones picked up. Last year, we were encased in our pods, bubbles, and virus-avoidant clans, and although this year

For the Love of Phil on the Day of the Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

November 2, 2021

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). The veil is thinner during this time between worlds, dimensions, states of being, the spirit world and the world we seemingly inhabit. I’m thinking loud and often about a

Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061

October 26, 2021

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 barred owl, seemingly on the other side of the window. Its call sounded different than the night time “who cooks for you?” call, more like a rooster

Make Mine an MRI With a Side of Enya and a Rainbow for Dessert: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

October 7, 2021

Question: How many MRIs does it take a claustrophobe to relax? Answer: When Brandon, the wonderful (re: tolerant) MRI tech asked I told him I’ve lost count. Nothing like tunnelling, sleeping, and freaking out at times through two bouts of cancer, plus having some greater risk of other cancers, to make that too many MRIs,

The Changing of the Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1059

October 4, 2021

Beyond the lower temperatures and chigger count, there’s something else that truly distinguishes this time of year: the changing of the light. The blues get bluer, the pinks and oranges get more silvery, and the hazy summer air dries out to clearer edges and hues all around. Summer in Kansas often feels endless, and not

9/11 From the Vantage Point of a Subway Dweller: Everyday Magic, Day 1058

September 11, 2021

Twenty years ago it happened. Ten years ago I wrote this post. So much of it is still true, and there’s so much more to say about the heartbreaking state of polarity, divisiveness, and home-grown hatred in our country. About the pandemic-catalyzed resilience and mutual aid as well as abuse, addiction, anxiety, poverty, and despair.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

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