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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.

Listening, and Getting Rid of Stuff: Everyday Magic, Day 847

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 3, 20152 min read

Listening, and Getting Rid of Stuff: Everyday Magic, Day 847

Thunder, then a long stretch of wind shaking up Cottonwood Mel outside my window. A plane overhead from faraway heading faraway. The...

Why Are We Busy When It’s So Astonishingly Beautiful? Everyday Magic, Day 845

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 15, 20151 min read

Why Are We Busy When It’s So Astonishingly Beautiful? Everyday Magic, Day 845

Kelley of the Lilac Every April I land in pure and blossoming enchantment every direction I look. Trees barely hold up their...

Big Bending Toward the Desert: Everyday Magic, Day 844

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 2, 20153 min read

Big Bending Toward the Desert: Everyday Magic, Day 844

Hiking in the Big Bend almost 30 years ago People say you either love or hate the desert. For me, it turns out to be both/and rather than...

Learning the Stars: Everyday Magic, Day 843

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 31, 20152 min read

Learning the Stars: Everyday Magic, Day 843

Despite living with a man who's all about the stars (as well as the flowers, the grasses, and seasonal migrations of many species), I...

Back to the Pool, Whining All the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 837

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 1, 20152 min read

Back to the Pool, Whining All the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 837

I wanted to go. I didn’t want to go. I figured I might, but probably wouldn’t, yet just in case, I tossed the bathing suit and towel in...

Getting Some New Blood In My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 834

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 19, 20153 min read

Getting Some New Blood In My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 834

I feel as if I just returned from a trip that entailed sheer cliffs, hair-pin turns, long treks through the desert without enough water,...

A Little More Light, Please, Oh, Hanukkah: Everyday Magic, Day 830

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 17, 20141 min read

A Little More Light, Please, Oh, Hanukkah: Everyday Magic, Day 830

The nights get longer, snow I seem to have gotten through the day of constant crying, followed by the day of crazy anger, all punctuated...

Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 14, 20143 min read

Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, I discovered what many already know about wandering through the world of serious...

“Listen, This Day is MAGIC,” She Said: Everyday Magic, Day 827

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 3, 20142 min read

“Listen, This Day is MAGIC,” She Said: Everyday Magic, Day 827

“Listen, this day is MAGIC and I’m not kidding,” Kelley Hunt wrote today on Facebook, and I knew at once the truth of such moments. It...

What Can a White Person Do?: Everyday Magic, Day 825

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 26, 20144 min read

What Can a White Person Do?: Everyday Magic, Day 825

Ferguson, Missouri is about a four-hour drive east of where I live, and yet it seems a world apart. In my town, which is far more white,...

Loving Rachel Rolfs: Everyday Magic, Day 821

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 22, 20142 min read

Loving Rachel Rolfs: Everyday Magic, Day 821

Rachel, her brother Micah and mom LaVetta in 1983 This was a girl who grew up in the background, preferring to help others shine and...

Happy Rosh Hashana: Everyday Magic, Day 817

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 24, 20142 min read

Happy Rosh Hashana: Everyday Magic, Day 817

The days of awe come exactly when they’re supposed to, launching with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, and ending with breaking fast on...

Why I Buy Myself Flowers Each Week: Everyday Magic, Day 813

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 29, 20142 min read

Why I Buy Myself Flowers Each Week: Everyday Magic, Day 813

I didn’t always buy myself flowers each Friday, and actually, I’m not even sure when I started, but it was sometime in the last five or...

Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 27, 20142 min read

Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808

“Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and then, with a purse full of bookmarks to commemorate the...

Praying for the Peace That Surpasses All Understanding: Everyday Magic, Day 807

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 13, 20143 min read

Praying for the Peace That Surpasses All Understanding: Everyday Magic, Day 807

On Facebook, at the grocery store, and even in my own kitchen, discussions heat up about the Israeli bombing of Gaza, and the Hamas...

To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 30, 20144 min read

To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806

Now that all three of our children are young adults, I realize how difficult it is to be moseying around on not-completely-fully-formed...

Lawrence, Kansas: Center of the Universe: Everyday Magic, Day 805

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 28, 20142 min read

Lawrence, Kansas: Center of the Universe: Everyday Magic, Day 805

A standing still (and surprised) artist on Mass. and 9th St. As I always say, there are two rules to Lawrence: 1) Don’t leave; and 2) If...

Can’t Get There From Here: The Outrageous Traffic Catch-22 of Lawrence, KS: Everyday Magic, Da

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 8, 20142 min read

Can’t Get There From Here: The Outrageous Traffic Catch-22 of Lawrence, KS: Everyday Magic, Da

This is kind of understandable although not a happy thing: we still have, or at least had, Iowa St. to the west of us only now Iowa is...

Back in the Swim of Things: Everyday Magic, Day 801

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 26, 20142 min read

Back in the Swim of Things: Everyday Magic, Day 801

Today it was back to the city pool for the first time since late last August. I paid my money, drank my water, took off my cover-up and...

When Things Fall Apart: Everyday Magic, Day 795

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 3, 20142 min read

When Things Fall Apart: Everyday Magic, Day 795

One of my favorite books, Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart, names this week. Two of our three young adult children lost their jobs,...

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