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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 11, 20203 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
Jan 30, 20202 min read
Are We All Just Dust in the Wind?: Everyday Magic, Day 995
That’s the question I kept asking myself as I replayed “Dust in the Wind” on my quickly-wearing-out but relatively new copy of Point of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20182 min read
The Secret Lives of Old Quilt Tops: Everyday Magic, Day 927
Years ago, I fell in love with a massive quilt of stars hand-sewn by an old woman at her garage sale. “It’s made from those cloth sacks...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20173 min read
Eclipse in Our Midst: Everyday Magic, Day 909
This eclipse, the first one in 99 years crossing the whole country, soared its moon shadow at speeds from 2,410 mph in Oregon, to 1,502...
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 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
Nov 16, 20121 min read
Darling, Sweetheart & Baby in Pittsburg, Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 648
Is it a Pittsburg, KS thing or just an tender roll of the dice kind of thing? I don’t know, but I liked it. Everywhere I went in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 19, 20122 min read
Rain Is The New Sexy: Everyday Magic, Day 600
It’s been decayed-bone-dry here. Stepping outside either means entering a giant sauna or being battered around in a giant dryer...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 29, 20122 min read
Tornado Warning!: Everyday Magic, Day 509
It’s after midnight, and my heart is still wide awake, set in racer action by the very sudden tornado warning that propelled our family,...
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
Jan 26, 20122 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
Aug 2, 20111 min read
Weather Guilt & The Weather To Come: Everyday Magic, Day 380
I'm in a dorm room in Vermont with the windows open. It's 62 degrees. Fellow Kansans as well as inhabitants of Death Valley (although...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 10, 20112 min read
20 Things To Do When It's Above 100 Degrees: Everyday Magic, Day 364
In Kansas in the summer, we’ve become experts on this! Here’s some ideas: Sit in a comfortable chair, slumped down for extra comfort, in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20112 min read
So Friggin' Hot: Everyday Magic, Days 342-343
Ice water? Check. Sitting in front of air-conditioning with ceiling fan on high? Check, check. Bag of cold cherries? Happy check. Wearing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 28, 20111 min read
Dreaming of Tornadoes: Everyday Magic, Day 250
I lived in Kansas for more than a decade before I began dreaming of tornadoes, something I aspired to like learning to fly in my dreams...
