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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20225 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 7, 20194 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
Oct 22, 20182 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
Aug 8, 20183 min read
“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949
In one of Rumi's poems, I love these lines especially: Reach your long hands out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 5, 20183 min read
After 64 Consecutive Semesters, Taking a Break: Everyday Magic, Day 941
I started teaching when I was 26. It was English 101 at the University of Kansas, a gig I figured would help me get through graduate...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 1, 20154 min read
Teaching Writing for the Love of It: Everyday Magic, Day 841
Tom McAfee years before I met him Believe me, I wasn’t a good poet when I studied creative writing as an undergraduate. I don’t say this...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20151 min read
Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 839
Meanwhile, there is the need to get from Point A to Point B, which required vast planning and exact execution of many layers of clothing,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 4, 20121 min read
Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607
The air is warm and damp (mid-80s and humid) as opposed to dry and hot (like the 109 predicted for Kansas today). The rain comes often....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 23, 20122 min read
Dwelling in Uncertainty & Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 504
The view from my office on the cusp of the incoming storm When is it most difficult to dwell in uncertainty? When you’re exhausted and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 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 11, 20122 min read
Readying Myself to Roll: Everyday Magic, Day 497
The cat packs herself for the trip Come Monday morning, I head down the magic rabbit hole between my home in a house on the prairie in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 12, 20111 min read
At the Cusp Between Worlds: Everyday Magic, Day 385
There’s been a lot of humidity and humility, a big thunder bolt (or two), many rehearsals for “Riverdance,” which some of us faculty...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 5, 20112 min read
Secrets of the Faculty Dorm: Everyday Magic, Day 383
I would tell you, but then I would have to kill you…..or seek your word you won’t breathe a word to everyone, which I guess I’m doing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 12, 20112 min read
Living My Dream to Be a Tina Turner Backup Dancer: Everyday Magic, Day 265
A few nights ago, I was upstairs in Dewey Dorm at Goddard College with a bunch of new fast friends (fellow faculty), watching a video of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 7, 20111 min read
Driving Nowhere In The Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 260
When I say I drove nowhere in the dark last night, I'm not talking metaphorically, or at least not just. I got in the car, thinking I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 1, 20111 min read
Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254
The snow’s job is to fall steady and thick all night and all day. The sky’s job is to let it. Meanwhile, my job is to talk with BFA...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20112 min read
I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore, Toto….Or Are We?: Everyday Magic, Day 253
The call came at 4 p.m. yesterday: would I jump on a plane today and come back to Vermont to teach in Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20112 min read
Suspended Animation in Cleveland: Everyday Magic, Days 217-218
Cleveland, nothing against you, but I don’t really know you, and sitting in this airport for hours isn’t helping the matter. I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 20111 min read
Two Links That Converge In My Heart
I want to share two links that seemingly may seem different — one is a poem about February — or more precisely, our little blizzard...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 8, 20102 min read
It’s Graduation Day: Everyday Magic, Days 25-26
Today I watched nine of our students graduate -- nine people who came here to Goddard College with a passion for studying something of...
