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Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam!: Everyday Magic, Day 902
While the buffalo didn’t arrive, getting to share the news on Facebook, not nearly as exciting as getting a small herd, did have it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20171 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
Following the Curve – a New Book of Poems About an Old Tradition: Everyday Magic, Day 901
Yoga, one of the oldest maps for being a body, says so much about cultivating a life of daring vitality and compassionate alignment. I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 5, 20171 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
Mothering Hacks Picked Up Along the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 898
We were exhausted and exuberant when we brought Daniel home from the hospital intensive care following some complications in his birthing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 14, 20174 min read
When Self-Care Isn't Enough: Everyday Magic, Day 897
Case in point: I’m sick now, nothing very serious, and after struggling against a virus or something like it for six weeks. I had to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 25, 20173 min read
Only-In-Lawrence-Kansas-Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 896
We love music and poetry in this town, so of course, a panhandler needs to use a Leonard Cohen quote, “Love is the only engine for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20172 min read
Poets Laureate of Kansas Call For the Humanities
In the past few weeks, I’ve been workin Poets Laureate of Kansas Statement of Support for the Humanities What does it mean to be fully...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 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
Just-Doing-That-Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 893
Snow, do you forsake the forsythia? This land’s Osage Indians, like many tribal people, named each month for its ecological context,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20171 min read
The Patron Saint of Just-Being Returns the Music: Everyday Magic, Day 892
In the two-plus years since our dear friend Jerry died, I’ve occasionally resumed my search for my Ipod mini, a little music player I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 3, 20172 min read
We're Sick!: Everyday Magic, Day 891
We just had a thermometer contest: whoever had the most normal temperature won, and I lost. Both Ken and I have what’s likely a wicked...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 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
Feb 3, 20172 min read
"Dedications" and the Women's March in Topeka (and Everywhere!): Everyday Magic, Day
One of the men I was talking about — my husband Ken — plus Dot Nary, who gave a superb talk and her husband Today I was given the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20173 min read
Tucked into the Clouds: Everyday Magic, Day 888
But what there is: a dog napping on the couch behind Christmas lights adorning shelves for the cats to climb and sleep on, skillet corn...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 16, 20171 min read
"Kansas Just Wants to Be Kansas": Everyday Magic, Day 887
“Southern California Wants to Be Western New York” is the title and subject of one of Dar Williams’ songs about what happens when the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20172 min read
"I Will Not Be Afraid of Women" and Other Dar Williams Inspired Poetry: Everyday Magic, Da
Dar Williams, in her performance at the Lawrence Arts Center. To get ready, I wrote a bunch of new poems, all inspired by Dar’s lyrics...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 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
