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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.

On Not Driving Myself Crazy: Everyday Magic, Day 121-122

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 17, 20101 min read

On Not Driving Myself Crazy: Everyday Magic, Day 121-122

The cold weather that moved in came easy and slow, and I watched and felt some of it last night when I stood in a parking lot, one of the...

Solitude is the New Sexy: Everyday Magic, Days 119-120

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 15, 20101 min read

Solitude is the New Sexy: Everyday Magic, Days 119-120

SI love my husband, kids, friends, community, and especially kitty cat, but sometimes a gal just needs to go be far, far away in a place...

My Ambition For The Day Is To Put Away The Laundry: Everyday Magic, Day 118

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 13, 20101 min read

My Ambition For The Day Is To Put Away The Laundry: Everyday Magic, Day 118

I thought of going to a movie, but too much effort! I have a vague sensation that I should clean the house, but that’s also out of my...

First Cold Rain of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 117

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 12, 20101 min read

First Cold Rain of the Season: Everyday Magic, Day 117

This outrageously long fall is clearly ending. From 487 miles north, in St. Paul, MN., my daughter sends me an email titled, “So this is...

How Many Birthday Lunches? Too Old To Remember: Everyday Magic, Days 115-116

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 11, 20101 min read

How Many Birthday Lunches? Too Old To Remember: Everyday Magic, Days 115-116

Over the years, we’ve birthday-lunched ourselves through delights and worries, one of our divorces, three of our ongoing marriages, six...

Hunting the Haunting in Chelsea: Everyday Magic, Day 106

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 31, 20101 min read

Hunting the Haunting in Chelsea: Everyday Magic, Day 106

Having just meandered through thick clumps of crowds around Chelsea to find the parade, all we found were the crowds, so deep along the...

Five Things Wrong With Doctors' Waiting Rooms: Everyday Magic, Day 101

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 27, 20101 min read

Five Things Wrong With Doctors' Waiting Rooms: Everyday Magic, Day 101

Television: Why, oh, why, is there a television blasting anorexic Golf Magazines: No surprise who brings these in from home, but...

What Are Your Five Best Meals?: Everyday Magic, Day 98

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 23, 20101 min read

What Are Your Five Best Meals?: Everyday Magic, Day 98

1. On a small island off Mombassa after a morning of riding out on the boat (and throwing up over the side as Ken distracted everyone by...

Mark’s Memorial and Poem: Everyday Magic, Day 39

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 22, 20103 min read

Mark’s Memorial and Poem: Everyday Magic, Day 39

That led to one of the potlucks of all potlucks, a whole lot of visiting inside and out morphing into the concert performed by the Alferd...

It’s Graduation Day: Everyday Magic, Days 25-26

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 8, 20102 min read

It’s Graduation Day: Everyday Magic, Days 25-26

Today I watched nine of our students graduate -- nine people who came here to Goddard College with a passion for studying something of...

In Praise of Goodness: Diane Silver’s Essential Project

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 18, 20101 min read

In Praise of Goodness: Diane Silver’s Essential Project

My friend and writer Diane Silver has just interviewed me for her blog, In Praise of Goodness. This blog is part of a year-long project...

Night & Flight: Winning Poems from the To the Stars Poetry Contest

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 22, 20102 min read

Night & Flight: Winning Poems from the To the Stars Poetry Contest

I am thrilled to announce the winning poets in the third week of the To the Stars poetry contest: Judy Roitman won in the...

The Art of Art: Governor’s Arts Awards 2010

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 12, 20101 min read

The Art of Art: Governor’s Arts Awards 2010

What’s Right Here to the 2010 Governor’s Arts Awards Recipients It’s all right here, they show us, the seemingly invisible right on the...

Dragonflies & Inky Darkness in My Baby Rides the Shortbus

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 7, 20092 min read

Dragonflies & Inky Darkness in My Baby Rides the Shortbus

Today I discovered something I originally drafted a long time ago is now published at YES Magazine, one of my favorite sources of...

Before Molly Was Nanny: Photos from 1930’s Brooklyn

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 29, 20092 min read

Before Molly Was Nanny: Photos from 1930’s Brooklyn

A few days ago, I got the most amazing photos via email from my mother, who received them from a second cousin she recently reconnected...

The Life We Could Be Living (If We Weren’t Living This One): July Write From Your Life

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 3, 20092 min read

The Life We Could Be Living (If We Weren’t Living This One): July Write From Your Life

We’ve all made choices, sometimes seemingly small at first, that turned large in all they encompassed: moving to one particular town for...

It’s Hot

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 26, 20092 min read

It’s Hot

It happens every summer here — at some point, the sweet days of May and June give way to the somewhat hot days, then things really heat...

How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love America

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 5, 20082 min read

How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love America

Last night, sitting on the couch with friends and family, glued to the television screen in between leaping up to check one of eight...

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