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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....

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,...

I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 53 min read

I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096

Truly, and usually with steaming oatmeal and iced tea when I'm half awake. Perhaps I should eat the rejections with a chocolate amaretto...

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...

In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 222 min read

In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091

This weekend, we celebrated the 90th birthday of our friend Herb, hands down one of the most creative and loving humans I've ever met....

Back to a First Love: Everyday Magic, Day 1090

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 74 min read

Back to a First Love: Everyday Magic, Day 1090

When I was a kid, I drew. All the time. I lived for trips to art supply stores where I might procure new pencils, fresh erasers, some...

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...

Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 8, 20232 min read

Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074

Juxtapositions — putting like with non-like — add zip, surprise, sometimes anxiety, and often uncertainty to our lives. They’re also at...

27 Things I’m Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 26, 20223 min read

27 Things I’m Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071

It’s almost twilight, Moxie dog is sleeping in the corner, my ears are buzzing with low-hum tinnitus, and I’m about to make dinner....

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...

Cancer Anniversary: From a Personal Pandemic to a Global One: Everyday Magic, Day 1005

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 29, 20205 min read

Cancer Anniversary: From a Personal Pandemic to a Global One: Everyday Magic, Day 1005

A year ago today, pacing an empty parking lot, I cried so hard on the phone with my friend Kelley that it was hard to get the words out:...

Where I Live: A New Year’s Moment: Everyday Magic, Day 986

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 29, 20192 min read

Where I Live: A New Year’s Moment: Everyday Magic, Day 986

I’ve always lived in the wind and sky. From my Brooklyn bedroom, upstairs in a narrow triplex somewhere in East Flatbush, I would lean...

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...

Making Stuff Up From Mrs. Potato Head to Eat the Earth: Everyday Magic, Day 928

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 10, 20182 min read

Making Stuff Up From Mrs. Potato Head to Eat the Earth: Everyday Magic, Day 928

What to call a fictional women’s collective running a potato farm in Moab, Utah in my novel Miriam’s Well? What else but “Mrs. Potato...

Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 11, 20131 min read

Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682

We met the 29 wondrous souls who signed up in October for the first all-day session, saw them again for another day As for the...

Failing

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 7, 20084 min read

Failing

It happened again.Yesterday, the long-awaited email arrived from the agent reading my revised (as per her suggestions) novel. In short,...

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