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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...

Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 304 min read

Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098

"It's either an ocular melanoma or a brain tumor," the doctor told me five years ago. Ken, my brother Ravi, and I all gasped in unison....

"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 14 min read

"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094

Within weeks of my terrifying eye cancer diagnosis in 2019, my friend Harriet brought me this hand-set-type print of my favorite quote...

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...

Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 21, 20233 min read

Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077

A few days ago I went to my seventh and perhaps my last Springsteen concert, which was (as always) a tour de force love child of sacred...

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....

Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 7, 20222 min read

Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066

Walking to the edge of the deck this early morning to take this photo of the fog burning off the brome field and the prairie, I felt...

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...

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...

The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19, 20222 min read

The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055

Sometimes I feel like I’m at a sudden still point between waves of motion and change. Like right now as I sit in a floral chair in my...

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...

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...

Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 26, 20212 min read

Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061

Lying in bed this morning between layers of flannel with a purring kitty under the covers with me, I dreamed in and out of the call of a...

When Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 15, 20213 min read

When Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044

Kansas roses struggle once summer gets its heat on, but I have found a land where everything is coming up roses: the Pacific Northwest....

Loving Aunt Rhoda: Everyday Magic, Day 1039

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 25, 20213 min read

Loving Aunt Rhoda: Everyday Magic, Day 1039

All my life, I heard the old folk song “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” as “Go Tell Aunt Rhoda,” and since I had an Aunt Rhoda, this seemed very...

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...

In Praise of Goody: Everyday Magic, Day 1032

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 16, 20213 min read

In Praise of Goody: Everyday Magic, Day 1032

“The world will never be the same,” Ken told me right after Goody Garfield’s burial service. “We were witness to one of a kind, and...

Life (and Tinnitus) in the Key of G: Everyday Magic, Day 1030

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 5, 20212 min read

Life (and Tinnitus) in the Key of G: Everyday Magic, Day 1030

Last night, I found that my tinnitus buzzes and hums in the key of G. How did I find this? By singing in key with the tinnitus while...

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...

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