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How to Write a Book Out of Cancer, Love of Land, Fear of Death, and a Pandemic: Everyday Magic, Day 1,121
My new book, The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place in the Age of Anxiety , is hitting the streets and bookshelves near you...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 305 min read
"Go Outside and Look for God" and Getting Through Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1,119
Friends walking in our field In the very long year that was January, Cindy, my acupuncturist, told me a story: another client of hers,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 45 min read
The Unbearable Vulnerability of Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1,112
Just about everyone I know is carrying a backpack full of anxiety, dread, despair, or anger, sometimes weighing into terror or rage. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 20, 20244 min read
"I'm Trying Not To Be Such a Maniac": Everyday Magic, Day 1,016
That's what I say to my friend Joy on the phone while we each surveyed our overflowing calendars for open spaces to meet. Over the last...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20243 min read
In Love and Sorrow For Goddard College: Everyday Magic, Day 1097
Right before I was hired to teach at Goddard College in 1996, the then-president, who many believed was set to shut down the college,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20246 min read
How to Build a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1089
How to build a life is really up to the person living that life, but after carrying this topic around in my head for a while, I realized...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 19, 20237 min read
Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077
A few days ago I went to my seventh and perhaps my last Springsteen concert, which was (as always) a tour de force love child of sacred...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075
I was fifteen years ago and miserable when I first went to a youth group Havdalah service one winter evening. I was living with my very...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20233 min read
We Never Leave You, You Never Leave Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1064
I left because it was making me sick, the “it” being the job I had loved fiercely and believed Iwould give my heart and time to until I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20225 min read
10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045
Kelley Hunt and my 16th annual six-day Brave Voice, Sept. 19-24 in Council Grove, Kansas. We have strong Covid protocols in place to keep...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Let’s Talk About Simone Biles: Everyday Magic, Day 1043
Let’s talk Simone Biles But first, let’s talk about two gymnasts we don’t know the names of: Elena Mukhina and Julissa Gomez. Elena...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 29, 20213 min read
The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041
Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20214 min read
What’s In Your Mystery Box?: Everyday Magic , Day 1027
On the phone with my cousin Richard last night, we talked about how life gives you materials you don’t often sign up for, then you have...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20212 min read
A Letter From the Post-Pandemic Future: Everyday Magic, Day 1004
Dear You, Yes, I hear you knocking on my door at all hours of the day and especially night, calling me out of my sleep because you’re not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20205 min read
If God Didn’t Want Us to Pray at Home, She Wouldn’t Have Invented Zoom: Everyday Magic,
Or Facebook Live. Or Youtube. Or any number of places to help us worship together while keeping physically apart and spiritually close. A...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 11, 20203 min read
Walking With Courage, Vulnerability, and Tenderness: Everyday Magic, Day 1,001
Amazingly enough, we are arrived at the last day of March, a month that has lasted at least 1,283 days in fear, panic, and dread years....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20203 min read
Listening to History, Looking Out for the Herd: Everyday Magic, Day 1000
It only took a few seconds of looking at the NYTimes map of the pandemic Saturday night for me to start hyper-ventilating and crying. At...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20203 min read
Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981
Arm-in-arm, Vicky, Eduardo, Ralph, and I walked down the snowy country road, belting out “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and doing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20194 min read
When Life Reboots You: Everyday Magic, Day 980
I realize that all of us get rebooted in our lives, and usually more than once, catalyzed by a medical diagnosis, a big loss and plunge...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20193 min read
Back at the Cancer Rodeo: Everyday Magic, Day 972
When I had breast cancer 17 years ago, I learned some things about resilience, the ability to bounce back. There’s nothing like being...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 1, 20194 min read
