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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.

A Wedding Shower, a Funeral, a Newborn, a Dying Friend & a Little Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 628

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 25, 20122 min read

A Wedding Shower, a Funeral, a Newborn, a Dying Friend & a Little Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 628

The Days of Awe have been more than awe-inspiring this year, thanks to a confluence of life’s essence. In the last week, we’ve poured our...

Turning Point, the Writers Place, the Lied Center and Some Great Barbeque: Everyday Magic, Day 618

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 27, 20122 min read

Turning Point, the Writers Place, the Lied Center and Some Great Barbeque: Everyday Magic, Day 618

Play it forward -- in our words sung, written and spoken -- swayed through my Sunday for people I work with as well as me, myself and I....

Beautiful Juxtapositions: Everyday Magic, Day 610

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 12, 20122 min read

Beautiful Juxtapositions: Everyday Magic, Day 610

All weekend, the beautiful juxtapositions of like plus unlike have amused and startled me. It started with Forest showing me how to march...

Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 4, 20121 min read

Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607

The air is warm and damp (mid-80s and humid) as opposed to dry and hot (like the 109 predicted for Kansas today). The rain comes often....

Humor in the Imaginary Rings of Hell at the Division of Motor Vehicles: Everyday Magic, Day 585

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 15, 20122 min read

Humor in the Imaginary Rings of Hell at the Division of Motor Vehicles: Everyday Magic, Day 585

Both my sons had to go to the Division of Motor Vehicles — one to take his driving test and the other to get his permit (I know, we’re...

When Life Puts Itself In Perspective: Everyday Magic, Day 584

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 10, 20122 min read

When Life Puts Itself In Perspective: Everyday Magic, Day 584

This afternoon, I laughed so hard I started crying, called 911 to have paramedics take a workshop participant to the hospital because of...

Facilitating Hard Meetings: Everyday Magic, Day 583

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 9, 20123 min read

Facilitating Hard Meetings: Everyday Magic, Day 583

Today I facilitated a very hard meeting for a group. As a long-time facilitator, using a Quaker-style model of facilitation funneled...

For the Love of Lou: Lou Frydman’s Memorial Service: Everyday Magic, Day 560

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 3, 20124 min read

For the Love of Lou: Lou Frydman’s Memorial Service: Everyday Magic, Day 560

Rick, Tess and Hannah singing “Sunrise, Sunset” to open the celebration Today was the memorial service for Lou Frydman, my friend who I...

A Steadfast, Upright Woman: Lynn Bretz: Everyday Magic, Day 558

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 2, 20122 min read

A Steadfast, Upright Woman: Lynn Bretz: Everyday Magic, Day 558

This is For Lynn She walked among us, steadfast, upright. Clear-eyed, clear-headed, she considered the issues, aesthetic, political,...

Art Tougeau Delivers: Everyday Magic, Day 555

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 26, 20122 min read

Art Tougeau Delivers: Everyday Magic, Day 555

Nothing like a steamy weekend to bring out some of what I love most about Lawrence: what happens when this community intersects with...

Pinneapple Power, Couger Blessing & Other Wonders of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 551

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 20, 20123 min read

Pinneapple Power, Couger Blessing & Other Wonders of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 551

Friday, I landed home from the 7th annual Brave Voice: Writing & Singing for Your Life retreat that Kelley Hunt and I blessedly do...

Standing on the Side of Love For Same-Sex Marriage: Everyday Magic, Day 549

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 9, 20123 min read

Standing on the Side of Love For Same-Sex Marriage: Everyday Magic, Day 549

When I saw the news, first on facebook and next in the New York Times, I started crying. Maybe I’m a little tired or overly enthralled...

Most of a Moon in the Morning: Everyday Magic, Day 548

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 9, 20122 min read

Most of a Moon in the Morning: Everyday Magic, Day 548

Out the south window of my living room, I see it: over half a moon on its way down but still quite high, a pale white disk that looks...

Passover: Have a Taste of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 530

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 5, 20122 min read

Passover: Have a Taste of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 530

All week, it’s Passover preparation: hiding all the matzoh and matzoh soup mix (along with the macaroons — do not even ask where they...

“How Can You Not Love That Kind of Winning?”: What the KU Jayhawks Show Us About Life: E

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 2, 20122 min read

“How Can You Not Love That Kind of Winning?”: What the KU Jayhawks Show Us About Life: E

“I have no idea how we won,” Robinson said. “I really don’t know.” That really has been the Jayhawk theme this season, inexplicably...

A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 22, 20122 min read

A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503

The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a place for the curious, eccentric and more-than-easily amused. So...

Prayer Balloons: Everyday Magic, Day 496

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 9, 20121 min read

Prayer Balloons: Everyday Magic, Day 496

When our family was in a terrible car accident, and Forest was life-flighted to the children’s hospital, after his miraculous recovery,...

In the Center of Everything: Everyday Magic: Day 490

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 26, 20122 min read

In the Center of Everything: Everyday Magic: Day 490

I write this post from the center of Kansas in Wilson, which is close to the center of the continental United States. I sit in the center...

Three Greatest Gifts of Moving On: Everyday Magic, Day 481

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 12, 20122 min read

Three Greatest Gifts of Moving On: Everyday Magic, Day 481

“The three greatest gifts of moving on are forgiveness, hope and the great beyond,” Mary Chapin Carpenter sang today in “Leaving Song,”...

In the Sweet Cusp of This New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 472

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 1, 20123 min read

In the Sweet Cusp of This New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 472

After cleaning the house for a party, the party, the clean-up, the movie afterwards, and the driving of relatively young people (e.g. old...

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