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A Good Rain in a Time of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 814
I’m sitting in the middle of my screened-in-porch while thunders roars to my east, and wind swooshes from my west. The sound of the rain...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20142 min read
Why I Buy Myself Flowers Each Week: Everyday Magic, Day 813
I didn’t always buy myself flowers each Friday, and actually, I’m not even sure when I started, but it was sometime in the last five or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 29, 20142 min read
Running with the Ruling Class: Everyday Magic, Day 812
Here I am in my bigger, better first class seat. When I saw those stark words — “Flight Delayed” — on my computer at 7:30 this morning, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20143 min read
Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811
As a kid, I lived on my bike, a daily ritual of pouring down the hill where I lived or trudging back up when it was time to go home. My...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20142 min read
Ellis Island, Where Past Generations of Us Came First: Everyday Magic, Day 810
Forest, about to enter the building his great-grandparents passed through to make a life here. Yesterday, Forest and I went, for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 2, 20142 min read
When An Evangelical Christian Makes a Jewish Poet Pump Iron: Everyday Magic, Day 809
Kevin and I have, at least on the surface, little in common. He’s an evangelical Christian, and I’m a practicing Jew. He’s less than half...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 29, 20142 min read
Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808
“Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and then, with a purse full of bookmarks to commemorate the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20142 min read
Praying for the Peace That Surpasses All Understanding: Everyday Magic, Day 807
On Facebook, at the grocery store, and even in my own kitchen, discussions heat up about the Israeli bombing of Gaza, and the Hamas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 13, 20143 min read
To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806
Now that all three of our children are young adults, I realize how difficult it is to be moseying around on not-completely-fully-formed...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 30, 20144 min read
Lawrence, Kansas: Center of the Universe: Everyday Magic, Day 805
A standing still (and surprised) artist on Mass. and 9th St. As I always say, there are two rules to Lawrence: 1) Don’t leave; and 2) If...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 28, 20142 min read
Oh Give Me a Poem Where the Buffalo Roam: Everyday Magic, Day 804
Like all book projects to the easily-optimistic, this one seemed kind of easy and fun. Fun it was, but “easy” quickly became a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 25, 20141 min read
Traveling By Train: Everyday Magic, Day 803
From whence I come I had this illusion that train travel would be serene, a rollicking cradle of comfort up and down the tracks as I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 13, 20143 min read
Can’t Get There From Here: The Outrageous Traffic Catch-22 of Lawrence, KS: Everyday Magic, Da
This is kind of understandable although not a happy thing: we still have, or at least had, Iowa St. to the west of us only now Iowa is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 8, 20142 min read
Back in the Swim of Things: Everyday Magic, Day 801
Today it was back to the city pool for the first time since late last August. I paid my money, drank my water, took off my cover-up and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20142 min read
Where Am I Now?: Everyday Magic, Day 800
My initial plan was to write everyday, which I did for a long time. The practice helped me aim my perception toward something to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 21, 20142 min read
A Big Gay Wedding For Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 799
Michael and Charles were joined together in holy marriage on May 3 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Manhattan, authorized by all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20142 min read
Welcome to the Dialogue and Friendship Dinner: With An Outstretched Hand
Thanks to Eyyup Esen, the force of friendship between this event Tonight I was honored to give the welcome and a welcoming poem at the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20143 min read
When Hate Strikes Close to Home: Everyday Magic, Day 798
When I left Sunday morning to give a presentation on my Holocaust book Needle in the Bone at a Topeka synagogue, hate crimes against Jews...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 14, 20142 min read
Death Tour 2014: Everyday Magic, Day 797
Portrait of the artist recovering with her cat Within one week, I attended my uncle’s moving funeral in New Jersey, our dear community...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 12, 20142 min read
Maggie, the Heartbeat of What It Means to Be Alive: Everyday Magic, Day 796
Although I didn’t know Maggie for decades or pal around big-time for her, whenever I saw her, we got right down to it: cancer (first...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 9, 20142 min read
