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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.

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...

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...

Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 16, 20222 min read

Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Yesterday began with running outside in our pajamas to cut irises as fast as possible while 70 mph winds and a giant thunderstorm...

“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 13, 20223 min read

“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Going from winter (otherwise known as much of April) to summer (disguised as May this year) has plummeted many of us in Kansas into the...

Love and Death in February: Everyday Magic, Day 1050

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...

When the Real Winter Shows Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1046

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 29, 20212 min read

When the Real Winter Shows Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1046

In the last week, the temperatures have risen well over 70 degrees, what we expect in April and not in late December, but my dubious joy...

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...

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...

When Winter Comes Stomping In: Everyday Magic, Day 1019

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 20, 20202 min read

When Winter Comes Stomping In: Everyday Magic, Day 1019

Suddenly, I’m searching for sweaters, cursing the lack of mittens with me for a walk, and shiver-driving around town for the interminable...

Days of Awe in an Unusual Year: Everyday Magic, Day 1016

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 26, 20203 min read

Days of Awe in an Unusual Year: Everyday Magic, Day 1016

The Days of Awe — the 10 days between Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), it’s time to clean up our act. We...

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...

Panic Attacks, Anyone?: Everyday Magic, Day 985

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 15, 20193 min read

Panic Attacks, Anyone?: Everyday Magic, Day 985

It’s 5:47 a.m. when I wake, trying to figure out how to fit my laptop into an antique desk that’s falling apart. My worry about the dream...

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...

Blown Away: Everyday Magic, Day 968

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 15, 20192 min read

Blown Away: Everyday Magic, Day 968

The week began with news that blew me away: a beloved colleague, who was the rock and heart of the college where I work, died suddenly....

Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 22, 20182 min read

Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955

The big picture mind-blowing expanses are all around, from a distance golden variegated hazes that upon closer range become crazy quilts...

The Real Summer Finally Shows Up, But Who Can Complain?: Everyday Magic, Day 727

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 28, 20131 min read

The Real Summer Finally Shows Up, But Who Can Complain?: Everyday Magic, Day 727

Last summer, by this point in August, the temperature dropped to highs in the mid-90s, and we dropped to our knees in gratitude. That’s...

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...

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...

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