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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.

Beauty, Balance, Forgiveness, Forgiveness: Everyday Magic, Day 726

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 22, 20132 min read

Beauty, Balance, Forgiveness, Forgiveness: Everyday Magic, Day 726

Swimming across the blue-green quarry pond in Vermont last week, and lately across the turquoise city pool in Kansas, I’ve found myself...

A Long, Slow Spring With Lots of Quick, Fast Travel: Everyday Magic, Day 696

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 24, 20132 min read

A Long, Slow Spring With Lots of Quick, Fast Travel: Everyday Magic, Day 696

At the beginning of March, I trembled when I looked at my calendar. With the end of my poet laureate term ending, I basically stopped...

The Gift of a Navajo Blanket at the End of An Era: Everyday Magic, Day 695

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 18, 20131 min read

The Gift of a Navajo Blanket at the End of An Era: Everyday Magic, Day 695

So much lately — from radio interviews to poet herding, plans from all directions coalescing to plans just glimmering on the coming...

When the View Changes: Everyday Magic, Day 677

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 12, 20132 min read

When the View Changes: Everyday Magic, Day 677

Now, as if it’s an ordinary day, which it kind of is, I sit in Capitol Grinds, my coffee shop hangout in Montpelier, Vermont. Ahead is a...

A Jersey Girl Thinks About the Shore: Everyday Magic, Day 643

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 1, 20122 min read

A Jersey Girl Thinks About the Shore: Everyday Magic, Day 643

Long Beach Island When you grow up where I did, when the temperature or boredom rises, you head to the shore, 20-40 minutes away...

A 30-Year Reunion, Workshop & Reading, and Dead Bird (All in a Day’s Work): Everyday Magi

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 22, 20122 min read

A 30-Year Reunion, Workshop & Reading, and Dead Bird (All in a Day’s Work): Everyday Magi

Yesterday, Ken and I drove west for 2.5 hours to beautiful Salina, Kansas. Never mind that it was 106 degrees (if we stopped doing things...

One Moment in the Climate Crisis: Everyday Magic, Day 602

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 20, 20122 min read

One Moment in the Climate Crisis: Everyday Magic, Day 602

When I think of the weather lately — hard not to do when the reality behind and forecast ahead is triple-digit days up one side and down...

Wishing the Water: Everyday Magic, Day 595

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 9, 20122 min read

Wishing the Water: Everyday Magic, Day 595

Another big storm coming to the big lake When I told my mother-in-law that Minnesota’s north shore received 200% of its average rainfall,...

Getting Down on the Gitche Gumee: Everyday Magic, Day 594

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 5, 20121 min read

Getting Down on the Gitche Gumee: Everyday Magic, Day 594

The changes are startling and beautiful. From the blue, calm lake feathered with pink highlights late afternoon our first day, or the...

Chigger Magnet: Everyday Magic, Day 546

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 7, 20122 min read

Chigger Magnet: Everyday Magic, Day 546

Some men and women and chick magnets. Me? I’m a chigger magnet. Take me out to the fields or woods with you, and you won’t need insect...

How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 3, 20125 min read

How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545

One of our early campouts. See if you can find Ken and me. I was 22, living in Kansas City, completely fed-up with the world of dating in...

Lighting a Big Field On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 526

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 29, 20122 min read

Lighting a Big Field On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 526

Would we burn the whole field before the rain and lightning came? It was hard to tell, and we almost stopped several times, but then we...

10 Perfect Things: Everyday Magic, Day 521

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 19, 20121 min read

10 Perfect Things: Everyday Magic, Day 521

10 a.m. in the Checkers (supermarket for you out-of-towners) parking lot, I saw a man surely in his 70s or older carrying a one-year-old...

Magnolia Tour 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 518

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 16, 20122 min read

Magnolia Tour 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 518

Every year, they explode open too fast only to be killed by some midnight frost that comes in mid March. Most years, I tell myself I will...

Unromancing the Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 517

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 13, 20122 min read

Unromancing the Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 517

I was surrounded by fire in the dry grass as it ran forward, little triangles composed of small flames licking the grass. I tried to put...

In Love With Vermont & Homesick For Kansas: The Folly & Wonder of Being Multi-Placial: Eve

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 19, 20122 min read

In Love With Vermont & Homesick For Kansas: The Folly & Wonder of Being Multi-Placial: Eve

It’s no wonder that I’ve had several conversations with students and friends lately about being multi-placial, that is, being someone...

A Small Woman in the Forest of Tall Men: Everyday Magic, Day 456

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 9, 20112 min read

A Small Woman in the Forest of Tall Men: Everyday Magic, Day 456

Kelley and Ken with one of the Kaw kids and the late great Susan Jones When I first came to Lawrence almost 30 years ago, I ran with a...

When Humans Make Places Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 425

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 14, 20111 min read

When Humans Make Places Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 425

An hour or so west (“Everything in New Hampshire is an hour away from everything else,” George tells me), I get to the elevator in my...

"Everything Tells the Story of the Universe": A Moment of Thomas Berry: Everyday Magic

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 6, 20111 min read

"Everything Tells the Story of the Universe": A Moment of Thomas Berry: Everyday Magic

My friend David shared a quote on a listserv today that reminded me of where I live: in the universe, and in story. I pass this onto you...

Why You Shouldn't Save a Skink By Its Tail or Untether a Spider From Your Rearview Window: Ever

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 24, 20112 min read

Why You Shouldn't Save a Skink By Its Tail or Untether a Spider From Your Rearview Window: Ever

I was just trying to help, honest. So when the cat brought in the iridescent skink, ready to tear off its limbs while purring loudly, I...

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