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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....

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...

"I'm Trying Not To Be Such a Maniac": Everyday Magic, Day 1,016

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 63 min read

"I'm Trying Not To Be Such a Maniac": Everyday Magic, Day 1,016

That's what I say to my friend Joy on the phone while we each surveyed our overflowing calendars for open spaces to meet. Over the last...

The Land is Still the Land: Everyday Magic, Day 1,103

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 144 min read

The Land is Still the Land: Everyday Magic, Day 1,103

Last week, we signed a pile of papers -- the last of three closings to save the land where we live. The first closing -- Dec. 15, 2020 --...

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...

Where's Beauty?: Everyday Magic, Day 1099

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 264 min read

Where's Beauty?: Everyday Magic, Day 1099

I've increasingly realized how I'm on the lookout for beauty most of the time -- the gaze of my dog Moxie when she raises her head from a...

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...

The Older I Get, the More I Flirt With Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 1087

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 29, 20233 min read

The Older I Get, the More I Flirt With Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 1087

I don't mean this metaphorically. I flirt with real dogs everywhere who, as I mosey on toward my mid-60s, turn out to be so much better...

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...

A Sound Bath in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Everyday Magic, Day 1086

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 27, 20233 min read

A Sound Bath in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Everyday Magic, Day 1086

I start out walking through cicadas, thousands, millions, maybe billions of them — this is Arkansas so it’s hard to know — a tunnel of...

A Sudden Storm, a Sudden Death: Everyday Magic, Day 1085

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 15, 20233 min read

A Sudden Storm, a Sudden Death: Everyday Magic, Day 1085

Just before Kris told me at lunch she couldn’t wait for a good thunderstorm, Denise texted Judy and me, “On the way to the hospital. Not...

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...

Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 21, 20233 min read

Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075

I was fifteen years ago and miserable when I first went to a youth group Havdalah service one winter evening. I was living with my very...

For the Love of Aunt Jill: Everyday Magic, Day 1072

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 4, 20224 min read

For the Love of Aunt Jill: Everyday Magic, Day 1072

“I’m not going to leave a message,” my sister Lauren said when she left a message Friday. I was standing in the corner of an ebullient...

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....

Living As If We Know We’ll Be Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1068

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 7, 20223 min read

Living As If We Know We’ll Be Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1068

In one of my favorite movies, About Time, the main character, who can time travel, hatches a great plan: he’ll live each day with all its...

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...

“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 13, 20223 min read

“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Going from winter (otherwise known as much of April) to summer (disguised as May this year) has plummeted many of us in Kansas into the...

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