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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.

"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...

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,...

How to Build a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1089

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...

Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 21, 20233 min read

Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077

A few days ago I went to my seventh and perhaps my last Springsteen concert, which was (as always) a tour de force love child of sacred...

Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 21, 20233 min read

Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075

I was fifteen years ago and miserable when I first went to a youth group Havdalah service one winter evening. I was living with my very...

We Never Leave You, You Never Leave Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1064

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 6, 20225 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...

10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

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...

Let’s Talk About Simone Biles: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

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...

The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 18, 20214 min read

The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041

Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...

What’s In Your Mystery Box?: Everyday Magic , Day 1027

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 29, 20212 min read

What’s In Your Mystery Box?: Everyday Magic , Day 1027

On the phone with my cousin Richard last night, we talked about how life gives you materials you don’t often sign up for, then you have...

A Letter From the Post-Pandemic Future: Everyday Magic, Day 1004

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19, 20205 min read

A Letter From the Post-Pandemic Future: Everyday Magic, Day 1004

Dear You, Yes, I hear you knocking on my door at all hours of the day and especially night, calling me out of my sleep because you’re not...

If God Didn’t Want Us to Pray at Home, She Wouldn’t Have Invented Zoom: Everyday Magic,

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 11, 20203 min read

If God Didn’t Want Us to Pray at Home, She Wouldn’t Have Invented Zoom: Everyday Magic,

Or Facebook Live. Or Youtube. Or any number of places to help us worship together while keeping physically apart and spiritually close. A...

Walking With Courage, Vulnerability, and Tenderness: Everyday Magic, Day 1,001

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 31, 20203 min read

Walking With Courage, Vulnerability, and Tenderness: Everyday Magic, Day 1,001

Amazingly enough, we are arrived at the last day of March, a month that has lasted at least 1,283 days in fear, panic, and dread years....

Listening to History, Looking Out for the Herd: Everyday Magic, Day 1000

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 19, 20203 min read

Listening to History, Looking Out for the Herd: Everyday Magic, Day 1000

It only took a few seconds of looking at the NYTimes map of the pandemic Saturday night for me to start hyper-ventilating and crying. At...

Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 7, 20194 min read

Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981

Arm-in-arm, Vicky, Eduardo, Ralph, and I walked down the snowy country road, belting out “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and doing...

When Life Reboots You: Everyday Magic, Day 980

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 28, 20193 min read

When Life Reboots You: Everyday Magic, Day 980

I realize that all of us get rebooted in our lives, and usually more than once, catalyzed by a medical diagnosis, a big loss and plunge...

Back at the Cancer Rodeo: Everyday Magic, Day 972

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 1, 20194 min read

Back at the Cancer Rodeo: Everyday Magic, Day 972

When I had breast cancer 17 years ago, I learned some things about resilience, the ability to bounce back. There’s nothing like being...

What’s Right Livelihood Got To Do With It?: Everyday Magic, Day 966

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 5, 20192 min read

What’s Right Livelihood Got To Do With It?: Everyday Magic, Day 966

What I wrote and what I’m living and learning is also very related to the Right Livelihood Professional Training I led for the first time...

Traveling By Train: Everyday Magic, Day 803

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 13, 20143 min read

Traveling By Train: Everyday Magic, Day 803

From whence I come I had this illusion that train travel would be serene, a rollicking cradle of comfort up and down the tracks as I...

God Has a Little Talk With Fred Phelps: Everyday Magic, Day 792

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 21, 20143 min read

God Has a Little Talk With Fred Phelps: Everyday Magic, Day 792

Fred: You’re God? God: You were expecting some white man with a beard. Puleeeaze! Fred: But you’re Black, and you look like Barbra...

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