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Surprises From 2018: Everyday Magic, Day 960
In reading Kate Bowler’s evocative essay, “How Cancer Changes Hope” and revising poems for my next book, How Times Moves, I’ve been...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20183 min read
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
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
In Gratitude for Nancy O'Connor: Everyday Magic, Day 907
Community Mercantile, just celebrated its marvelous school garden project at West Junior High School and the person who founded the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 30, 20172 min read
Calicoco, the Flying Ninja Cat, or Why You Shouldn't Put a Feral Kitty in Your Bathroom: Everyd
There’s white fur on the bathroom mirror, bath curtain rod, and bedroom windows from Calicoco, the feral cat I stupidly thought I could...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 16, 20174 min read
Please Help Me Find Cover Art For Miriam's Well, My New Novel: Everyday Magic, Day 900
Miriam’s Well Synopsis From a young age Miriam sees visions she can’t cope with or stop. Growing up Jewish in Brooklyn with Aaron, her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 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
We're All Such Delicate Creatures, But At Least We're In Good Company: Everyday Magic, Day 895
Everyone I know has something hard to live or live with: the everyday heartbreak of going on when a greatly beloved is dead or gone, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20173 min read
Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894
Photo by Stephen Locke, used with permission The kids were already in the front seats when I arrived at the Coffey County Library branch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20173 min read
When Things Fall Apart (Or Seem To): Everyday Magic, Day 890
Since the inauguration our family has been living out a microcosm of the macrocosm. While the details aren’t mine to tell, let’s just say...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20172 min read
A New Year to Be Kind: Everyday Magic, Day 885
I know the Dalai Lama says his religion is kindness, but it took a while for this truth to catch up with me. As I get older, it overtakes...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20173 min read
Remembering Aaron: Everyday Magic, Day 884
One of Our Own He’s one of our own: a golden-limbed boy, one hand on his hip, the other holding an ornate box turtle, his open face...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20161 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
Bringing Charles Home: Everyday Magic, Day 863
It was one of those Kansas days when any moment of daylight would be heavy with heat and humidity although a 9 a.m. burial was more like...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 19, 20163 min read
Charles Is A Force of Nature: Everyday Magic, Day 862
Charles was one of the first Lawrencians I ever met, in about 1981 when I was a member of the Kansas City Sufi community, where Charles...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20163 min read
Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860
Celebrating Claudia’s birthday at the concert with Michel Loomis Listening to the astonishingly spirited Claudia Schmidt perform a house...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20164 min read
The Light, the Dark, and a Road Trip to Western Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 890
I first presented the book to the marvelous Pioneer Memorial Library, which brought together close to 80 people in the basement for lunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20162 min read
People Can Surprise You: Everyday Magic, Day 889
Last night I dreamed I was a stand-up comic doing my first gig. There was mic trouble, and as I tried to riff off a list of topics I had...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 29, 20162 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
