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Look for the Miriams: Everyday Magic, Day 956
A few hours after the Tree of Life shooting, we clung to each other — singing, praying, crying — at the Beth Israel Center in Madison,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 29, 20183 min read
Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955
The big picture mind-blowing expanses are all around, from a distance golden variegated hazes that upon closer range become crazy quilts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 22, 20182 min read
I’m Heartbroken for Our Country: Everyday Magic, Day 954
Yesterday, a woman spoke with great poise, integrity, and courage about how she was terrified that the supreme court nominee would...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 28, 20184 min read
Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912
I think of people in central Mexico, working frantically to unearth possible survivors from collapsed buildings from the 7.1 earthquake...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 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
Sustain the Beloved Community, and Reject the New Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 879
Like many people I know, I’m caught in a panoramic response to the presidential election. One moment, I’m crying, another I’m agonizing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20164 min read
Voting for All the Girls, Women, and Beyond-Gender-People We Love, Know, Were or Are
When I walk into the voting booth Tuesday and pencil in the bubble for Clinton/Kaine, I have no doubt I’ll be crying in hope for who I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20164 min read
In Praise of Phil Ochs: Everyday Magic, Day 887
West Side Folk’s “A Night of Phil Ochs,” in which singer, actor and shining soul Zachary Stevenson completed embodied Ochs in voice,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20163 min read
Generations: Everyday Magic, Day 884
Columbia was where we met in college, or more to the point, because of what we did in our many non-college hours: potlucks with too much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20162 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
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
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
When I Was Growing Up: Everyday Magic, Day 717
When I was growing up, a high school teacher would stretch forth one arm, drop his wrist dramatically, swish, and imitate Charles Nelson...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 17, 20132 min read
The Invisibility of Privilege: Everyday Magic, Day 716
As I read about the Trayvon Martin murder and subsequent trial, I can’t stop thinking about the obvious: the invisibility of privilege,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 16, 20133 min read
What DOMA Repeal Means Up Close and Personal, and How I Got a Kitten Out of It: Everyday Magic, Day
On May 6, 2001, I conducted my very first (and so far, last) wedding for my dear friends and our kids’ godparents. Courtney and Denise...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20132 min read
Unanswered Calls for Help and the Holocaust: Everyday Magic, Day 692.
Today I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the State of Kansas Holocaust Commemoration at the Kansas History Museum in Topeka, KS....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 8, 20138 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
How Many Poets Does It Take To Go to the End of the World, Begin Again, and Spring Poetry on Strange
Evidently, it takes 8 poets, which is what we had for our Southwest Kansas Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems caravan, which took us across...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20114 min read
