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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.

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 --...

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...

The Most Beautiful Thing is Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1080

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19, 20232 min read

The Most Beautiful Thing is Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1080

As soon as we started driving west from Kansas City International Airport Monday, I fell in love again with late afternoon light play and...

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 12, 20224 min read

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Weather. That was the theme of the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills, and because of all my weather poetry, especially my poem “Being Made...

Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 29, 20223 min read

Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049

I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...

The Changing of the Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1059

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 4, 20211 min read

The Changing of the Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1059

Beyond the lower temperatures and chigger count, there’s something else that truly distinguishes this time of year: the changing of the...

Only-In-Lawrence-Kansas-Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 896

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19, 20172 min read

Only-In-Lawrence-Kansas-Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 896

We love music and poetry in this town, so of course, a panhandler needs to use a Leonard Cohen quote, “Love is the only engine for...

Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 24, 20173 min read

Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894

Photo by Stephen Locke, used with permission The kids were already in the front seats when I arrived at the Coffey County Library branch...

"Kansas Just Wants to Be Kansas": Everyday Magic, Day 887

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 8, 20172 min read

"Kansas Just Wants to Be Kansas": Everyday Magic, Day 887

“Southern California Wants to Be Western New York” is the title and subject of one of Dar Williams’ songs about what happens when the...

Why Would Anyone Leave Lawrence, Kansas?: Everyday Magic, Day 869

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 12, 20153 min read

Why Would Anyone Leave Lawrence, Kansas?: Everyday Magic, Day 869

Last night I dreamed that we had just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where our oldest son now lives, because Ken got a kick-ass job...

The Melancholy Before Leaving: Everyday Magic, Day 860

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 28, 20152 min read

The Melancholy Before Leaving: Everyday Magic, Day 860

Nothing like packing a suitcase to make me wish that suitcase wasn’t leaving the house. That pre-trip sadness, lyrical enough to be...

Five Wonders at the End of June: Everyday Magic, Day 855

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 29, 20152 min read

Five Wonders at the End of June: Everyday Magic, Day 855

Mothra! Little wonders abound, and in the last week, here are five I experienced: 1. Mothra! On Sunday we found this guy just off the...

Celebrate This Kansas on Happy Kansas Day: Everyday Magic, Day 836

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 29, 20151 min read

Celebrate This Kansas on Happy Kansas Day: Everyday Magic, Day 836

Celebrate this sky, this land beyond measured time that tilts the seasonal light. Dream the return of the stars, the searing rise of...

The Tender Side of Loss: Everyday Magic, Day 824

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 7, 20142 min read

The Tender Side of Loss: Everyday Magic, Day 824

Ken in the deep woods In the past two weeks, the Royals lost the World Series, my favored candidate for governor (when the stakes were...

Kansas, I Love You, But Your Broke My Heart Again: Everyday Magic, Day 823

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 5, 20143 min read

Kansas, I Love You, But Your Broke My Heart Again: Everyday Magic, Day 823

Last night’s election sent me to bed with a tremor of despair and a dull ache in my head and heart. Once again, the people of my beloved...

Scaring Ourselves At High Altitudes: Everyday Magic, Day 708

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 16, 20132 min read

Scaring Ourselves At High Altitudes: Everyday Magic, Day 708

The other rafts twice the number of people on them as ours with only Ken, Forest, our nephew Andrew, me and our guide. “Will that make it...

Falling in Love with Kansas Skies All Over Again: Everyday Magic, Day 706

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 30, 20131 min read

Falling in Love with Kansas Skies All Over Again: Everyday Magic, Day 706

It happens all the time. It happens every so often. I go outside or, while driving, turn a corner, and I meet the sky. On a spring day in...

“The Gift Must Move” and the Changing of Kansas Poets Laureate: Everyday Magic, Day 705

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 23, 20132 min read

“The Gift Must Move” and the Changing of Kansas Poets Laureate: Everyday Magic, Day 705

This moment is especially sweet for me. My term, which has been easing to a close with the announcement of Wyatt’s appointment at the end...

The Gift of a Navajo Blanket at the End of An Era: Everyday Magic, Day 695

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 18, 20131 min read

The Gift of a Navajo Blanket at the End of An Era: Everyday Magic, Day 695

So much lately — from radio interviews to poet herding, plans from all directions coalescing to plans just glimmering on the coming...

What a Renga Can Do: Everyday Magic, Day 672

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 27, 20132 min read

What a Renga Can Do: Everyday Magic, Day 672

Hearing people read their sections aloud, I noticed all kinds of nuances and gestures in the language that I had missed when reading the...

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