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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20243 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
Nov 20, 20244 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 10, 20242 min read
"Seeing in the Dark": Everyday Magic, Day 1,111
On Friday night, I shared this poem at Shabbat services at my synagogue. As I read it, I remembered how, when I wrote this some years...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20242 min read
What Makes This Bearable: Everyday Magic, Day 1,110
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20247 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
Apr 15, 20246 min read
In Love and Sorrow For Goddard College: Everyday Magic, Day 1097
Right before I was hired to teach at Goddard College in 1996, the then-president, who many believed was set to shut down the college,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20243 min read
I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096
Truly, and usually with steaming oatmeal and iced tea when I'm half awake. Perhaps I should eat the rejections with a chocolate amaretto...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 19, 20237 min read
How to Build a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1089
How to build a life is really up to the person living that life, but after carrying this topic around in my head for a while, I realized...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 10, 20232 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
Sep 7, 20222 min read
Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066
Walking to the edge of the deck this early morning to take this photo of the fog burning off the brome field and the prairie, I felt...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 27, 20223 min read
Boobs and Bravery on the Move: Everyday Magic, Day 1061
It’s been a week of boobs and bravery on the move (and I don’t mean the supreme court, which I have other names for rather than slang for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20222 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 7, 20223 min read
What’s Wrong With Humans (and Some Birds): Everyday Magic, Day 1052
An hour ago, a mourning dove crashed so hard against our living room window that Ken and I both jumped. The dove attacked his reflection...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 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
Aug 15, 20212 min read
10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045
Kelley Hunt and my 16th annual six-day Brave Voice, Sept. 19-24 in Council Grove, Kansas. We have strong Covid protocols in place to keep...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 29, 20213 min read
Let’s Talk About Simone Biles: Everyday Magic, Day 1043
Let’s talk Simone Biles But first, let’s talk about two gymnasts we don’t know the names of: Elena Mukhina and Julissa Gomez. Elena...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 26, 20213 min read
A Medal for Bravery Finally Delivered After 77 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1042
Saturday I got to watch historic justice: Jarek Piekalkiewicz finally being presented with the Cross of the Brave, known as Krzyz...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 31, 20132 min read
The People Who See Us in the Worst Light Possible: Everyday Magic, Day 722
Not so much a blast from the past but a little breeze brushed me recently, reminding me of both someone many years ago and someone in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20131 min read
Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682
We met the 29 wondrous souls who signed up in October for the first all-day session, saw them again for another day As for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 19, 20073 min read
Spirit Trip: Woody
We’ve all taken those kinds of trips that aren’t anywhere in the vicinity of relaxing poolside under swaying palms, or long meetings in...
