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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.

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....

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...

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...

What Can We Do in Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1088

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 22, 20233 min read

What Can We Do in Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1088

This morning, after waking once again at 5 a.m. freaked out about the state of the world, Gaza and Israel specifically, I eventually gave...

Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 10, 20232 min read

Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog

Dear everyone, I'm writing to you because my hunch is you were among the 2,000+ subscribers to my Everyday Magic blog. It's a hunch...

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...

We Used to Write Letters: Everyday Magic, Day 1062

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 10, 20223 min read

We Used to Write Letters: Everyday Magic, Day 1062

Dear Readers, For last month, I’ve been on an archeological colonoscopy into my past as I sorted through boxes and big plastic vats of...

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 12, 20224 min read

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Weather. That was the theme of the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills, and because of all my weather poetry, especially my poem “Being Made...

Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 30, 20224 min read

Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Cancer is often measured in anniversaries and fruit. We survivors often report in with our years out from the cancer after our initial...

Two Years Later and What Will be Two Years From Now?: Everyday Magic, Day 1053

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 13, 20222 min read

Two Years Later and What Will be Two Years From Now?: Everyday Magic, Day 1053

It all changed March 13, 2020 for many of us in this country. That Friday the 13th was auspicious in ways people like me didn’t see...

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...

Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 29, 20223 min read

Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049

I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...

Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 20, 20222 min read

Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048

At Checkers, our big locally-owned grocery store the other day, the check-out lines snaked across the frozen food section with six or so...

For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 18, 20212 min read

For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

For years, they arrived regularly, two or three batches every month or so that always included one for me, one for Ken, and occasionally...

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 24, 20212 min read

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

There’s something both stark and magical about the time right before the holiday season opens wide and emcompasses us in a whole lot of...

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...

Loving Aunt Wilma: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 30, 20214 min read

Loving Aunt Wilma: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

Sunday evening, we sat on our back deck around an outdoor table and a wedding gift from Aunt Wilma and Uncle Ron 36-plus years ago, a...

Hugging People As If It’s Perfectly Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 1037

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 4, 20212 min read

Hugging People As If It’s Perfectly Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 1037

When I walked into the Merc Co-op today, I spied Ardys. After talking a little through our masks, she leaned in to bump elbows. “You...

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