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Look for the Miriams: Everyday Magic, Day 956
A few hours after the Tree of Life shooting, we clung to each other — singing, praying, crying — at the Beth Israel Center in Madison,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 29, 20183 min read
Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955
The big picture mind-blowing expanses are all around, from a distance golden variegated hazes that upon closer range become crazy quilts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 22, 20182 min read
I’m Heartbroken for Our Country: Everyday Magic, Day 954
Yesterday, a woman spoke with great poise, integrity, and courage about how she was terrified that the supreme court nominee would...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 28, 20184 min read
Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912
I’m perched on this lovely porch on the last day of the year, at least the last day according to the Jewish year, which ends at sundown....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 20173 min read
"What It Takes": 63rd Anniversary of Brown Vs. Board of Education: Everyday Magic, Day 899
What It Takes It takes years of waiting on polished wooden benches outside trembling courtrooms. Thousands of meetings in church...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 22, 20172 min read
Sustain the Beloved Community, and Reject the New Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 879
Like many people I know, I’m caught in a panoramic response to the presidential election. One moment, I’m crying, another I’m agonizing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20164 min read
Voting for All the Girls, Women, and Beyond-Gender-People We Love, Know, Were or Are
When I walk into the voting booth Tuesday and pencil in the bubble for Clinton/Kaine, I have no doubt I’ll be crying in hope for who I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20164 min read
In Praise of Phil Ochs: Everyday Magic, Day 887
West Side Folk’s “A Night of Phil Ochs,” in which singer, actor and shining soul Zachary Stevenson completed embodied Ochs in voice,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20163 min read
Generations: Everyday Magic, Day 884
Columbia was where we met in college, or more to the point, because of what we did in our many non-college hours: potlucks with too much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20162 min read
Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808
“Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and then, with a purse full of bookmarks to commemorate the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20142 min read
A Big Gay Wedding For Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 799
Michael and Charles were joined together in holy marriage on May 3 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Manhattan, authorized by all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20142 min read
Welcome to the Dialogue and Friendship Dinner: With An Outstretched Hand
Thanks to Eyyup Esen, the force of friendship between this event Tonight I was honored to give the welcome and a welcoming poem at the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20143 min read
When Hate Strikes Close to Home: Everyday Magic, Day 798
When I left Sunday morning to give a presentation on my Holocaust book Needle in the Bone at a Topeka synagogue, hate crimes against Jews...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 14, 20142 min read
The Love of Justice, The Justice of Love, and Why Courtney & Denise Should Be Able to Marry in
2001 Real-But-Not-in-Kansas Wedding Portrait When Courtney and Denise asked me to marry them, I said, “Sure, but you know, I’m not legal...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20144 min read
When I Was Growing Up: Everyday Magic, Day 717
When I was growing up, a high school teacher would stretch forth one arm, drop his wrist dramatically, swish, and imitate Charles Nelson...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 17, 20132 min read
The Invisibility of Privilege: Everyday Magic, Day 716
As I read about the Trayvon Martin murder and subsequent trial, I can’t stop thinking about the obvious: the invisibility of privilege,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 16, 20133 min read
What DOMA Repeal Means Up Close and Personal, and How I Got a Kitten Out of It: Everyday Magic, Day
On May 6, 2001, I conducted my very first (and so far, last) wedding for my dear friends and our kids’ godparents. Courtney and Denise...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20132 min read
Unanswered Calls for Help and the Holocaust: Everyday Magic, Day 692.
Today I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the State of Kansas Holocaust Commemoration at the Kansas History Museum in Topeka, KS....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 8, 20138 min read
“No Way of Dividing What’s Yours & Mine When Everything is Shining” & My
Juxtaposed with the news reports in my head of the Republican National Convention, recent polling on the election, the impossibility of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20122 min read
How Many Poets Does It Take To Go to the End of the World, Begin Again, and Spring Poetry on Strange
Evidently, it takes 8 poets, which is what we had for our Southwest Kansas Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems caravan, which took us across...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20114 min read
