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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 16, 20174 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
May 26, 20173 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 22, 20172 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
Mar 29, 20173 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 24, 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
Feb 3, 20172 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
Jan 1, 20173 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
Dec 29, 20161 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
Nov 18, 20164 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 5, 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
Jun 19, 20163 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 15, 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 6, 20164 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
Mar 4, 20162 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
Feb 29, 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 7, 20163 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
Jan 24, 20163 min read
Four Funerals and a Wedding: Everyday Magic, Day 885
I used to have more of a "Four weddings and a funeral" life, but get old enough, and things start to shift. In the last month, I've...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20162 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 13, 20163 min read
A Wonder Made of Time and Staying Put: Everyday Magic, Day 883
A few days later, while wandering through the Merc to get a crapload of delicacies for friends facing serious medical woo-hah, I ran into...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20154 min read
A Year of Reunions: Everyday Magic, Day 882
In the arms and lap of Suzanne, one of my oldest friends Stay around long enough, and you’ll meet yourself and everyone else you love...