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The Everyday Magic Blog

I'm so happy to share my blog, started in 2008 as part of my writing practice and as way to connect directly with you! Please peruse the blog, and sign up to get the latest posts. You can also get my beautifully-produced and illustrated collection of many blog posts, Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and the Miraculous through Meadowlark Press here. Thanks for being part of my everyday magic.

"Seeing in the Dark": Everyday Magic, Day 1,111

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

5 days ago2 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...

What Makes This Bearable: Everyday Magic, Day 1,110

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 62 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...

33 Things To Get You From Here to There: Everyday Magic, Day 1,109

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 27 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....

If This Furniture Could Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 1,108

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 244 min read

If This Furniture Could Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 1,108

Lately, with all this American political intensity, I'm antsy. I'm also not alone in this, and like others, I need distractions,...

25 Strange, Wonderful, Annoying, and Luminous Discoveries Last Week: Everyday Magic, Day 1,107

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 153 min read

25 Strange, Wonderful, Annoying, and Luminous Discoveries Last Week: Everyday Magic, Day 1,107

One October week: Hurricane Milton, Northern Lights, a colonoscopy, Yom Kippur, Louise Erdrich in town, Comet Purple Mountain, and the...

"I'm Trying Not To Be Such a Maniac": Everyday Magic, Day 1,016

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 63 min read

"I'm Trying Not To Be Such a Maniac": Everyday Magic, Day 1,016

That's what I say to my friend Joy on the phone while we each surveyed our overflowing calendars for open spaces to meet. Over the last...

Riding With Pack Rats and Waking With Weasels of Political Anxiety: Everyday Magic, Day 1,015

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 123 min read

Riding With Pack Rats and Waking With Weasels of Political Anxiety: Everyday Magic, Day 1,015

There it was -- a very large pack rat Ken was ready to fling with a pair of long tongs into the deep woods, far from where we could smell...

The Land is Still the Land: Everyday Magic, Day 1,103

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 144 min read

The Land is Still the Land: Everyday Magic, Day 1,103

Last week, we signed a pile of papers -- the last of three closings to save the land where we live. The first closing -- Dec. 15, 2020 --...

A Glimpse of the America We Could Be: Everyday Magic, Day 1,102

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 64 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,...

We Just Saved the Land That Saves Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1,101

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 155 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

What Talking About Books Across Kansas Can Do Over 32 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1100

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 27 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...

Where's Beauty?: Everyday Magic, Day 1099

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 264 min read

Where's Beauty?: Everyday Magic, Day 1099

I've increasingly realized how I'm on the lookout for beauty most of the time -- the gaze of my dog Moxie when she raises her head from a...

Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 304 min read

Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098

"It's either an ocular melanoma or a brain tumor," the doctor told me five years ago. Ken, my brother Ravi, and I all gasped in unison....

In Love and Sorrow For Goddard College: Everyday Magic, Day 1097

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 156 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,...

I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 53 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...

Birds! Music! And Why is Everyone Yelling at Me?: Everyday Magic, Day 1095

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 143 min read

Birds! Music! And Why is Everyone Yelling at Me?: Everyday Magic, Day 1095

I finally got hearing aids after several years of Ken and my kids repeating things to me loudly and often with a...

"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 14 min read

"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094

Within weeks of my terrifying eye cancer diagnosis in 2019, my friend Harriet brought me this hand-set-type print of my favorite quote...

Living in a City of Writers at a Humongous Convention Center: Everyday Magic, Day 1093

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 144 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...

The Miracle of "Fast Car" Then and Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1092

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 113 min read

The Miracle of "Fast Car" Then and Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1092

By 1990, my Tracy Chapman cassette tape was played into such oblivion (and so repeatedly tangled in the car tape deck) that I had to buy...

In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 222 min read

In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091

This weekend, we celebrated the 90th birthday of our friend Herb, hands down one of the most creative and loving humans I've ever met....

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