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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
When Things Fall Apart: Everyday Magic, Day 795
One of my favorite books, Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart, names this week. Two of our three young adult children lost their jobs,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 3, 20142 min read
Finishing the Last Poem for Chasing Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 794
As a poet, I’m not used to writing a body of poems on deadline although there have been plenty of times I’m pushing and praying through a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20142 min read
Two Bodies Always in Motion: A Crowd-Sourced Poem of Sorts: Everyday Magic, Day 793
Two Bodies Always in Motion A coruscating kaleidescope of fire, grief, possibility, and beauty about to be ghosted in the velvet memory...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20141 min read
God Has a Little Talk With Fred Phelps: Everyday Magic, Day 792
Fred: You’re God? God: You were expecting some white man with a beard. Puleeeaze! Fred: But you’re Black, and you look like Barbra...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 21, 20143 min read
The Blessing of Sig: Everyday Magic, Day 791
Sig, who also officiated over our son’s bris, wrote this welcome to our daughter a few days after her birth in April of 1992: The birth...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20142 min read
So I’m Not Really In Cyprus (and Other Realities of Being Spammed): Everyday Magic, Day 790
Very early this morning at dark’o’thirty, I was rudely awakened with the news: my email sent everyone in my address book a message that I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20142 min read
The Winter That Could Not End: Everyday Magic, Day 789
Adding to my winter kvetching has been a five-day virus, just now ebbing after nights of making me shiver so much that piles of down...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20141 min read
Why You Should Support the Best Work Of One of the Best Musicians: Everyday Magic, Day 788
Kelley and some of the musicians she recorded with in Nashville Yesterday I listened to one of the most beautiful albums in my life:...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 23, 20142 min read
Sparkling Night Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 787
The daytime snow doesn’t glitter like the nighttime snow, but it’s ruffled with ridges Tonight as I walked from the center of campus to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 18, 20141 min read
True Love Isn’t Rose Petals: Everyday Magic, Day 786
For one thing, he doesn’t like roses, except for native wild roses, although he’s learned not to insult the roses I’ve planted in our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20143 min read
