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Malchuyot: A Rosh Hashana Reflection on Surrender, Life’s Imagination and Who’s In Charg
1. King of Kings, or the Fire That Makes the Circle In traditional scripture about Malchuyot, we revisit God’s sovereignty in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 17, 20124 min read
Six Events, Six Cities, Six Days: Everyday Magic, Day 625
Julie (third from right); her daughters Rebecca (left) with Dina’s baby, and Dina (right); Dina’s other mom Louise (to left of Julie),...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 13, 20122 min read
Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624
Yet my life, this book, Kansas, and haunted houses are nothing I could have imagined. The Koester House, a beautiful home in downtown...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 11, 20122 min read
My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623
Some of us see our names in lights. For me, it's chalk, and even more miraculously, cookies. When I arrived at Blue Planet Cafe in Topeka...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20121 min read
I Listen to the Wind of My Soul: Everyday Magic, Day 622
Sitting on the back deck, the sun to my right and cottonwood to my left, I listen to the wind. I love this sound so much that I could not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 5, 20122 min read
Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621
Hanging out with Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books in Wichita, and mutually admiring Katherine Towler’s great anthology GOD IN THE...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20122 min read
“No Way of Dividing What’s Yours & Mine When Everything is Shining” & My
Juxtaposed with the news reports in my head of the Republican National Convention, recent polling on the election, the impossibility of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20122 min read
Turning Point, the Writers Place, the Lied Center and Some Great Barbeque: Everyday Magic, Day 618
Play it forward -- in our words sung, written and spoken -- swayed through my Sunday for people I work with as well as me, myself and I....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 27, 20122 min read
Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 617
I’m sitting on the porch listening to KKFI’s women’s blues show in the rain. Nothing unusual except the word and reality of rain. I can’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 25, 20121 min read
Hanging Out With My Inner Travel Agent: Everyday Magic, Day 616
My inner travel agent is relentless. When she surfaces to book my trips, she keeps me up late finding the flight that’s least likely (as...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 24, 20121 min read
“So What Actually Happened?”: Confusing Confluences of Truth & Fiction in The Divor
One of my mother’s friends apologized to her for how I treated her as a teenager after reading The Divorce Girl. “It’s fiction,” my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20122 min read
Some Great Summer Movies: Everyday Magic, Day 614
Our summer of hell (via heat and Kansas politics) has driven me to Liberty Hall, our local movie theater, often to see many refreshing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 21, 20122 min read
Turns Out I Love an Old, Beaten-Down Car: Everyday Magic, Day 613
And why shouldn’t I love it? This car is not only comfortable with a vengeance, but it has hauled hundreds of things and thousands of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 17, 20122 min read
What To Do With a Summer Cold?: Everyday Magic, Day 612
Sleep as late as possible. Waking to let the dog out? Back to sleep. Waking again to let the dog in? Back to sleep. Cat pouncing on your...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20123 min read
Me & My Fur-Covered Assistant: Everyday Magic, Day 611
“I got this, boss.” Shay the dog is right at my side as we step outside to the sleeping porch. “I got this one, boss,” Shay tells me with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20122 min read
Beautiful Juxtapositions: Everyday Magic, Day 610
All weekend, the beautiful juxtapositions of like plus unlike have amused and startled me. It started with Forest showing me how to march...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 12, 20122 min read
What’s In My Car?: Everyday Magic, Day 609
Cleaning out the car today, I discovered how prepared I am for impromptu camping, yoga, reading or flossing, not to mention vacuuming....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 11, 20122 min read
The Miracle of Here to There: Everyday Magic, Day 608
In between were hours, crowds, hot flashes, moving sidewalks, and rushes toward food courts that seemed too rushed only to rush two other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 11, 20122 min read
Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607
The air is warm and damp (mid-80s and humid) as opposed to dry and hot (like the 109 predicted for Kansas today). The rain comes often....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 4, 20121 min read
Hotter Than Hell & 20 More Diversions: Everyday Magic, Day 606
When you step outside at 9 a.m., and it’s already too hot to be out, it’s hard to sink into weather-induced self-pity, punctuated by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 29, 20122 min read
