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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

Beauty

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...

Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 8, 20232 min read

Beauty

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...

When I Don’t Know What Else to Do: Everyday Magic, Day 1025

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 12, 20212 min read

arts

When I Don’t Know What Else to Do: Everyday Magic, Day 1025

Since the riots of hatred last Wednesday, it’s hard to get my bearings. Like most of the people I know, the word “unbelievable!” peppers...

New York City Wander Week: Everyday Magic, Day 988

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 20, 20192 min read

Food

New York City Wander Week: Everyday Magic, Day 988

I stood in the East Village Friday morning, marveling at a Langston Hughes quote I’ve never seen about falling in love with the energy of...

Recipes From (and For) the Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 930

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 25, 20184 min read

Food

Recipes From (and For) the Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 930

No surprise that food looms large in all my memoirs and novels, whether it’s the hunt for the best fried chicken in Kansas (in the...

The Oncoming-Snow Drive for Groceries: Everyday Magic, Day 783

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 3, 20141 min read

Weather

The Oncoming-Snow Drive for Groceries: Everyday Magic, Day 783

The woman in front of me turned when she had all her food on the conveyer belt and said, “I don’t know why I even bought this much...

Honey Bear Solstice Salon: Everyday Magic, Day 752

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 21, 20132 min read

Animal

Honey Bear Solstice Salon: Everyday Magic, Day 752

Hanukkah Lenny arrived late and didn’t get a good place to perch, but you can see how much he’s listening intently to his mates. The...

A Diner Outside the Time-Space Continuum: Everyday Magic, Day 674

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 1, 20132 min read

Magic

A Diner Outside the Time-Space Continuum: Everyday Magic, Day 674

Coming home from the renga reading in Kansas City, we were a wee bit hungry, so we aimed ourselves toward a hole in the wall diner in...

Goodbye, Milton’s! I Loved You at First Bite: Everyday Magic, Day 647

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 15, 20123 min read

Community

Goodbye, Milton’s! I Loved You at First Bite: Everyday Magic, Day 647

Goodbye, dear French toast! I remember the first day I shlepped my computer to Milton’s Restaurant. Like many of the Java Dive regulars —...

My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 7, 20121 min read

Kansas

My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623

Some of us see our names in lights. For me, it's chalk, and even more miraculously, cookies. When I arrived at Blue Planet Cafe in Topeka...

In Praise of White Fish: Everday Magic, Day 423

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 11, 20112 min read

Community

In Praise of White Fish: Everday Magic, Day 423

The past is blurry, but you can see that I was happier holding the white fish than sitting on the cement turtle Last night I sat around a...

The Entertainment Value of Bad Food: Everyday Magic, Day 240

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 20, 20111 min read

Magic

The Entertainment Value of Bad Food: Everyday Magic, Day 240

It looked like cat food. It smelled worse. “Try just a taste,” Ken said, and so I did. It was more horrible than I imagined. We were...

The Best Pie-Maker in the World: Remembering My Dear Friend Weedle

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 16, 20086 min read

Community

The Best Pie-Maker in the World: Remembering My Dear Friend Weedle

When Paul called my little cell phone that evening, I was immediately taken by the very still tone in his voice.“I’m afraid I have some...

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