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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.

Scans For Life: Everyday Magic, Day 956

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 6, 20204 min read

Scans For Life: Everyday Magic, Day 956

Years ago when I was in the oncology center waiting room for an appointment following my bout of breast cancer, two women made me cry....

Counting on the Other Side of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 984

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 8, 20193 min read

Counting on the Other Side of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 984

When life feels out of control, I start counting. I first noticed this habit/neurosis/coping mechanism when I was in labor for my oldest...

The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 28, 20193 min read

The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983

For the last three weeks, the Amazon burns, and just today, according to The New York Times, more than 500 Brazilian government employees...

When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 11, 20192 min read

When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979

For a writer who loves reading, movies, watching James Corden Cross-walk theater videos, and visually scanning the world for so much of...

Nine Reasons to Give a Little (or a Lot): Everyday Magic, Day 978

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 29, 20192 min read

Nine Reasons to Give a Little (or a Lot): Everyday Magic, Day 978

As many of you know, I’m leaping from my day job of college-level teaching to creating more transformative writing, community-building...

The Power of Blossoms: Everyday Magic, Day 971

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 21, 20192 min read

The Power of Blossoms: Everyday Magic, Day 971

Emily Dickinson writes, “I started early — Took my dog.” In my case, I started late and took my croissant, and unlike Dickinson, I wasn’t...

Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 7, 20191 min read

Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970

On our trip to Brooklyn, New York City, and New Jersey — aka the mothership for me — grace abounded, often like a slip of paper or wings...

Grief is Not What We Think It Is: Everyday Magic, Day 958

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 3, 20182 min read

Grief is Not What We Think It Is: Everyday Magic, Day 958

V ery little in life is what we think it is, especially grief. In the three weeks since my mother-in-law died, I’ve ridden a pack of...

Alice: Praising My Mother-in-Law: Everyday Magic, Day 957

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 18, 20182 min read

Alice: Praising My Mother-in-Law: Everyday Magic, Day 957

After crowd-sourcing some of the details for this poem from her children (including my husband), here’s what I wrote for the woman who...

I Had No Idea! — Some of What Being a Mother Showed Me: Everyday Magic, Day 924

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 8, 20182 min read

I Had No Idea! — Some of What Being a Mother Showed Me: Everyday Magic, Day 924

I had no idea how how much unconditional love I was capable, and before becoming a mother, I only had a glance of this light I’ve now...

Birds of Many Feathers: 10 Eagles, 100 Swans, 100,000 Snow Geese: Everyday Magic, Day 920

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 11, 20172 min read

Birds of Many Feathers: 10 Eagles, 100 Swans, 100,000 Snow Geese: Everyday Magic, Day 920

I thought it was a bust, but the boon just hadn't happened yet. We wanted 100,000 snow geese, but just saw a handful of eagles, and 100...

Loving Uncle Ron: Everyday Magic, Day 914

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 3, 20174 min read

Loving Uncle Ron: Everyday Magic, Day 914

It started with gerunds, a grammatical term for verbs that end in “ing.” To write directly and precisely, writers are supposed to avoid...

Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 20, 20173 min read

Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912

I think of people in central Mexico, working frantically to unearth possible survivors from collapsed buildings from the 7.1 earthquake...

Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 9, 20172 min read

Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905

It’s called “putting the book to bed” when you turn in your final version of a whole bunch of pages about to be published as a real, live...

The Everyday Miracle of Rainbows: Everyday Magic, Day 904

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 1, 20173 min read

The Everyday Miracle of Rainbows: Everyday Magic, Day 904

Why I didn’t see a rainbow until I was 12 was because I wasn’t looking, not having imagined rainbows were possible in real life. Growing...

A New Year to Be Kind: Everyday Magic, Day 885

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 1, 20173 min read

A New Year to Be Kind: Everyday Magic, Day 885

I know the Dalai Lama says his religion is kindness, but it took a while for this truth to catch up with me. As I get older, it overtakes...

Remembering Aaron: Everyday Magic, Day 884

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 29, 20161 min read

Remembering Aaron: Everyday Magic, Day 884

One of Our Own He’s one of our own: a golden-limbed boy, one hand on his hip, the other holding an ornate box turtle, his open face...

The Day After Christmas: Everyday Magic, Day 883

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 26, 20162 min read

The Day After Christmas: Everyday Magic, Day 883

The day after Christmas is a clearing and arrival at once on the other side of what too often has felt like a great divide for me (check...

Birthdays, Graduations and Charmed Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 880

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 3, 20161 min read

Birthdays, Graduations and Charmed Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 880

I’ve come across this bracelet before, like a treasure lost in a pond that comes ashore haphazardly, and put it away again as a relic of...

Surviving with Gumption & Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 875

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 8, 201621 min read

Surviving with Gumption & Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 875

Days of Caring event in Hays, Kansas — a luncheon and fashion show to raise awareness about breast cancer. Here’s the talk I gave,...

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