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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.

Birds Are the Best Thing About Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 1029

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 13, 20213 min read

Birds Are the Best Thing About Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 1029

When the temperature gets near or below zero, survival comes into sharper focus for us all, but so do birds and their survival without...

Palliative Care or Palling Around? Everyday Magic, Day 1028

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 7, 20212 min read

Palliative Care or Palling Around? Everyday Magic, Day 1028

Shay the dog is an elderly gentleman with a lot of problems that could be careening him to the brink of the rainbow bridge soon. He has...

A Moment of Respite: Everyday Magic, Day 1020

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 6, 20201 min read

A Moment of Respite: Everyday Magic, Day 1020

Shay and I sit on the porch, exhaling. It has been a week, a year, and a close-to-four year thing. There’s still so much wrong with our...

Writing With Wildlife: Everyday Magic, Day 1013

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 15, 20202 min read

Writing With Wildlife: Everyday Magic, Day 1013

I just returned from writing poetry on the porch at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow to write poetry on the porch of our place. Being...

Dear Me: Stop Freaking Out: Everyday Magic, Day 999

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 12, 20204 min read

Dear Me: Stop Freaking Out: Everyday Magic, Day 999

Dear Me (and Dear Me!), I know you’re crazy-scared about the coronavirus. How could anyone paying attention not be when the closings and...

My Life Has Gone to the Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 998

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 2, 20203 min read

My Life Has Gone to the Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 998

“It’s like an animal daycare here,” said my friend Laurie, here to give Shay some doggy acupuncture today. She was right, and with two...

In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 23, 20202 min read

In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994

Each day I crave a clear view of a clear sky, but fog, snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, and variety packs of all this percipitation at...

A Bug In My Ear, or Why Is This Night Different From Other Nights?: Everyday Magic, Day 987

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 3, 20193 min read

A Bug In My Ear, or Why Is This Night Different From Other Nights?: Everyday Magic, Day 987

I woke up, then woke Ken up. At first, we thought it was just a tiny moth, but eventually, we concluded it was either a blind moth or...

The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 28, 20193 min read

The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983

For the last three weeks, the Amazon burns, and just today, according to The New York Times, more than 500 Brazilian government employees...

When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 11, 20192 min read

When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979

For a writer who loves reading, movies, watching James Corden Cross-walk theater videos, and visually scanning the world for so much of...

Naming the Turtles on a Healing Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 974

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 27, 20195 min read

Naming the Turtles on a Healing Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 974

Throughout my healing journey — the cancer diagnosis and visits with three oncologists, the big-time scans and fears, the joys and...

Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 16, 20192 min read

Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965

As life has repeatedly, February is the longest month. Maybe it’s the overwrought repetition of cold, ice, and snow after months of...

Big Picture Days and Little Animal Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 964

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 9, 20191 min read

Big Picture Days and Little Animal Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 964

I’ve been thinking so hard that I’ve landed in myself into the land of the fuzzy-headed, seeking solace in deep-sea naps on the couch,...

In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 18, 20194 min read

In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962

I can’t remember when I first encountered Oliver’s poetry, but I know this: it wasn’t when I was doing a PhD in poetry despite my comps...

“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 8, 20183 min read

“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949

In one of Rumi's poems, I love these lines especially: Reach your long hands out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the...

Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam!: Everyday Magic, Day 902

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 18, 20171 min read

Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam!: Everyday Magic, Day 902

While the buffalo didn’t arrive, getting to share the news on Facebook, not nearly as exciting as getting a small herd, did have it...

Calicoco, the Flying Ninja Cat, or Why You Shouldn't Put a Feral Kitty in Your Bathroom: Everyd

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 16, 20174 min read

Calicoco, the Flying Ninja Cat, or Why You Shouldn't Put a Feral Kitty in Your Bathroom: Everyd

There’s white fur on the bathroom mirror, bath curtain rod, and bedroom windows from Calicoco, the feral cat I stupidly thought I could...

A Charm of Teenager Hummingbirds: Everyday Magic, Day 872

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 10, 20162 min read

A Charm of Teenager Hummingbirds: Everyday Magic, Day 872

A bunch of hummingbirds is called a charm, a delight and an adornment, and for the last few months, I’ve been blessed to have my view...

Pet World and the Real Magic of Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 886

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 27, 20162 min read

Pet World and the Real Magic of Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 886

This was the Pet World re-opening eight months after a devastating fire killed many a reptile, all the fish, a kitten, and many other...

Karma, a Disgruntled Cat, and the Bob-Tailed Squirrel: Everyday Magic, Day 881

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 19, 20152 min read

Karma, a Disgruntled Cat, and the Bob-Tailed Squirrel: Everyday Magic, Day 881

If the windows are Cat TV, the squirrel was a daily reality show designed to inflame cat desires and piss them off. As such, it had high...

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