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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.

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...

My Friend Vaughn and the Walk to the House Down the Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1054

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 30, 20224 min read

My Friend Vaughn and the Walk to the House Down the Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1054

“Vaughn keeps talking about the house down the road,” Julie, his wife, told me just a few days before he died. I listened on the other...

Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 20, 20222 min read

Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048

At Checkers, our big locally-owned grocery store the other day, the check-out lines snaked across the frozen food section with six or so...

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...

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 24, 20212 min read

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

There’s something both stark and magical about the time right before the holiday season opens wide and emcompasses us in a whole lot of...

For the Love of Phil on the Day of the Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 2, 20214 min read

For the Love of Phil on the Day of the Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

It’s not lost on me that it’s the Day of the Dead, when we remember and honor our departed beloveds (between Oct. 31-Nov. 2 this year)....

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...

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...

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....

For the Love of the Song & the Singer: Remembering Martin Swinger: Everyday Magic, Day 1040

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 8, 20212 min read

For the Love of the Song & the Singer: Remembering Martin Swinger: Everyday Magic, Day 1040

Martin Swinger, a virtuoso singer and songwriter, died suddenly in early July, leaving behind his husband (and partner of 35 years) Brian...

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 Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 11, 20213 min read

“Life Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031

“This is probably the last time we’ll be able to do this,” we nervously joked with each other a year ago. We were friends, gathered at...

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...

A Small Thanksgiving With Too Many Cranberries: Everyday Magic, Day 1021

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 23, 20202 min read

A Small Thanksgiving With Too Many Cranberries: Everyday Magic, Day 1021

Like most of us living in the ever-expansive pandemic lands, I’m looking toward a pocket-size gathering of just our household and our...

The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 24, 20203 min read

The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007

As I watch the Pendleton’s peonies I just bought rush from tight little balls to full-throttle fireworks of blossoms, I keep thinking of...

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:...

Walking With Courage, Vulnerability, and Tenderness: Everyday Magic, Day 1,001

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 31, 20203 min read

Walking With Courage, Vulnerability, and Tenderness: Everyday Magic, Day 1,001

Amazingly enough, we are arrived at the last day of March, a month that has lasted at least 1,283 days in fear, panic, and dread years....

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