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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
In Praise of Maxine Kumin: Everyday Magic, Day 785
How rare is this for a very famous poet with decades of achievements? More rare than Sam Brownback crushing on Hillary Clinton. But...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20142 min read
The Oncoming-Snow Drive for Groceries: Everyday Magic, Day 783
The woman in front of me turned when she had all her food on the conveyer belt and said, “I don’t know why I even bought this much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20141 min read
In Memory of Pete Seeger: Everyday Magic, Day 762
I grew up on Pete Seeger, his music and his voice coming to me through the radio, the television, and perhaps just in the wind. Of course...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 28, 20142 min read
The Love of Justice, The Justice of Love, and Why Courtney & Denise Should Be Able to Marry in
2001 Real-But-Not-in-Kansas Wedding Portrait When Courtney and Denise asked me to marry them, I said, “Sure, but you know, I’m not legal...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20144 min read
On the Other Side of Surgery: Everyday Magic, Day 760
Sunset with a tunnel of red light the first night home Time is a strange substance that envelopes us. A day ago, a week ago, a year...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 17, 20143 min read
Goodbye, Dog of Love: Everyday Magic, Day 759
We found Mariah at the Humane Society when Daniel, his friend Katie, and I went in looking for a special canine pal for Daniel. Mariah...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 13, 20143 min read
The Dog Lives To See Another Day (or Week, or Month): Everyday Magic, Day 758
We’ve never had to put down an animal before. Past ones have vanished, been eaten by coyotes (that’s why we have indoor cats these days),...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 20142 min read
