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"Go Outside and Look for God" and Getting Through Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1,119
Friends walking in our field In the very long year that was January, Cindy, my acupuncturist, told me a story: another client of hers,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 45 min read
Riding With Ronda (With Love): Everyday Magic, Day 1,114
Ronda reading at the 2014 Power of Words conference. Photo by Stephen Locke. When Ronda's son Scott called me Monday with the news of her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20243 min read
The Unbearable Vulnerability of Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1,112
Just about everyone I know is carrying a backpack full of anxiety, dread, despair, or anger, sometimes weighing into terror or rage. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 20, 20244 min read
33 Things To Get You From Here to There: Everyday Magic, Day 1,109
“Don’t read the news, at least not the feeding frenzy of speculation about the election,” I keep telling myself, and for good reason....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20247 min read
A Glimpse of the America We Could Be: Everyday Magic, Day 1,102
On the eve of July 4th, I saw what our deeply-divided and pitifully-polarized country could be in a Minneapolis city park. Above, around,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 6, 20244 min read
We Just Saved the Land That Saves Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1,101
A few days ago, after 39 years of trying to save the land that we love and where we live, Ken and I spent five minutes signing papers to pro
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20245 min read
What Talking About Books Across Kansas Can Do Over 32 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1100
"So when we look at how a character changes the narrative of her life, we learn a lot about how we can do this too," I told ten people in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 2, 20247 min read
Living in a City of Writers at a Humongous Convention Center: Everyday Magic, Day 1093
The elevator door opened on the 16th floor of the Marriott, where I was staying, and there they were: a scraggly bunch, some in oversized...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20244 min read
What Can We Do in Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1088
This morning, after waking once again at 5 a.m. freaked out about the state of the world, Gaza and Israel specifically, I eventually gave...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20233 min read
Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog
Dear everyone, I'm writing to you because my hunch is you were among the 2,000+ subscribers to my Everyday Magic blog. It's a hunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 10, 20232 min read
We Never Leave You, You Never Leave Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1064
I left because it was making me sick, the “it” being the job I had loved fiercely and believed Iwould give my heart and time to until I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 6, 20225 min read
We Used to Write Letters: Everyday Magic, Day 1062
Dear Readers, For last month, I’ve been on an archeological colonoscopy into my past as I sorted through boxes and big plastic vats of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 10, 20223 min read
Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060
Weather. That was the theme of the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills, and because of all my weather poetry, especially my poem “Being Made...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 12, 20224 min read
Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Cancer is often measured in anniversaries and fruit. We survivors often report in with our years out from the cancer after our initial...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20224 min read
Two Years Later and What Will be Two Years From Now?: Everyday Magic, Day 1053
It all changed March 13, 2020 for many of us in this country. That Friday the 13th was auspicious in ways people like me didn’t see...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20222 min read
Love and Death in February: Everyday Magic, Day 1050
“Maybe since January lasted for seven and a half years, February will be easy,” I said to my friend Kris. She was doubtful since...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20222 min read
Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049
I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20223 min read
Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048
At Checkers, our big locally-owned grocery store the other day, the check-out lines snaked across the frozen food section with six or so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 20, 20222 min read
For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045
For years, they arrived regularly, two or three batches every month or so that always included one for me, one for Ken, and occasionally...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 18, 20212 min read
On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043
There’s something both stark and magical about the time right before the holiday season opens wide and emcompasses us in a whole lot of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 24, 20212 min read
