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“How Can You Not Love That Kind of Winning?”: What the KU Jayhawks Show Us About Life: E
“I have no idea how we won,” Robinson said. “I really don’t know.” That really has been the Jayhawk theme this season, inexplicably...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 2, 20122 min read
A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a place for the curious, eccentric and more-than-easily amused. So...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20122 min read
Prayer Balloons: Everyday Magic, Day 496
When our family was in a terrible car accident, and Forest was life-flighted to the children’s hospital, after his miraculous recovery,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 9, 20121 min read
In the Center of Everything: Everyday Magic: Day 490
I write this post from the center of Kansas in Wilson, which is close to the center of the continental United States. I sit in the center...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 26, 20122 min read
Three Greatest Gifts of Moving On: Everyday Magic, Day 481
“The three greatest gifts of moving on are forgiveness, hope and the great beyond,” Mary Chapin Carpenter sang today in “Leaving Song,”...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20122 min read
In the Sweet Cusp of This New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 472
After cleaning the house for a party, the party, the clean-up, the movie afterwards, and the driving of relatively young people (e.g. old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20123 min read
A Very Tall Cloud, the Joplin Tornado, the Eventual Graduation and the Rebuilding of Everything: Eve
On May 21st, Daniel quasi-graduated from Bethel College, meaning he walked in cap and gown with the others but still had an incomplete to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 24, 20112 min read
Remembering Matthew Shepard & What Divides Us: Everday Magic, Day 424
There are many people tortured, even killed, just because they are who they are, and while I don’t mean to lift up Shepard above all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 12, 20112 min read
In Praise of White Fish: Everday Magic, Day 423
The past is blurry, but you can see that I was happier holding the white fish than sitting on the cement turtle Last night I sat around a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 11, 20112 min read
Time To Repent, Reflect & Reconvene: Everyday Magic, Day 422
Yom Kippur begins at sundown, the biggest holiday (not counting regular old shabbat, which counts as the biggest regular old holiday) of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 7, 20112 min read
Raising Money From My Own Front Porch: Everyday Magic, Day 417
Always loved to be on the road even if it was just bumper cars at Coney Island As many of you know, it’s been a long and dark road for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 27, 20112 min read
Little Delights for the Not-So-Easily Discouraged: Everyday Magic, Day 415
I'm always keeping my eye out for little delights: whimsy on the hoof, strange magic, unusual appearances and surprising juxtapositions...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 21, 20111 min read
Ten Years Ago: A Poem for 9-11: Everyday Magic, Day 408
I wrote this poem for “From Fear to Hope: Commemorating 9-11,” an interfaith event at the Dole Institute of Politics, where I read it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 11, 20111 min read
How Much Love We Can Show Together, From Kansas To Norway: Everyday Magic, Day 378
When bad things happen -- whether at the personal, community, state, national or world level -- how we rise up again comes down to coming...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 28, 20112 min read
Remembering How NFTY Saved My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 369
NFTY — the National Federation of Temple Youth — was the national organization that helped fuel youth groups of reform Jewish synagogues,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20112 min read
The Moment It Happened: A Poem For Keeping SRS Open In Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 368
Later she would say it was a miracle. Afterward he would tell friends it happened just in time. Someone answered the phone. Someone took...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 16, 20112 min read
When Kelley Hunt Sings: Everyday Magic, Day 167
Last night, once again, I was transported along with many others on and around the dance floor when Kelley Hunt and her band brought us...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20112 min read
The Best Pie-Maker in the World: Remembering My Dear Friend Weedle
When Paul called my little cell phone that evening, I was immediately taken by the very still tone in his voice.“I’m afraid I have some...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 16, 20086 min read
