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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.

Still Life With Sleeping Animals: Everday Magic, Day 559

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 3, 20121 min read

Still Life With Sleeping Animals: Everday Magic, Day 559

Marvin Gaye sings “Mercy, Mercy Me,” the rain falls, and the animals sleep on this long Sunday morning, longer than usual because for...

Attack of the Mayflies: Everyday Magic, Day 554

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 24, 20121 min read

Attack of the Mayflies: Everyday Magic, Day 554

The mayflies are here, and they mean business. Add together a non-winter and a long, wet spring, and you get what we’ve got in our house:...

How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 3, 20125 min read

How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545

One of our early campouts. See if you can find Ken and me. I was 22, living in Kansas City, completely fed-up with the world of dating in...

The Warped Joy of Cleaning the Stove: Everyday Magic, Day 538

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19, 20121 min read

The Warped Joy of Cleaning the Stove: Everyday Magic, Day 538

I chose a white stove several years ago when the third of a series of used stoves we bought, hauled in, and used for a while joined that...

Driving the Dark Backroad Home: Everyday Magic, Day 536

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 17, 20122 min read

Driving the Dark Backroad Home: Everyday Magic, Day 536

Leaving Kansas City tonight, where I gave a poetry reading, I headed west on 87th Street, first missing the turn onto I-35 and then...

The Inadvertent Rube Goldberg Contraptions of My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 531

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 5, 20122 min read

The Inadvertent Rube Goldberg Contraptions of My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 531

Last night, I noticed that although Rube Goldberg’s descendants never claimed me as a relative, maybe I should claim them. This insight...

Ronda, Grandma Barb and the Long Way Home: A Miracle of Poetry: Everyday Magic, Day 525

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 27, 20122 min read

Ronda, Grandma Barb and the Long Way Home: A Miracle of Poetry: Everyday Magic, Day 525

Why the poetry caravan went to St. Francis for a reading had everything to do with one of the town’s prodigal daughters, Ronda Miller....

The Wild West Poetry Channel: Everyday Magic, Day 524

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 24, 20122 min read

The Wild West Poetry Channel: Everyday Magic, Day 524

“Hunters skinning animals in their room should ask for black plastic bag,” read the sign in the motel Ronda decided we best not stay at,...

The Prodigal Dog Returns and Brings with Him All Joy: Everyday Magic, Day 522

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 20, 20122 min read

The Prodigal Dog Returns and Brings with Him All Joy: Everyday Magic, Day 522

The phone rang right after Kelley and I finished our sushi and tempura on this rainy Tuesday. “I better get this. It could be about the...

Hankering for Shay to Sashay Home: Everyday Magic, Day 519

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 17, 20121 min read

Hankering for Shay to Sashay Home: Everyday Magic, Day 519

Shay vanished while Ken was with him on the hill in the woods today. Ken turned his back, and the dog, who had been following a scent in...

Naming the Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 516

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 12, 20122 min read

Naming the Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 516

Natalie with Miyako when she was still a kitten The old story goes that Eve named the animals, but we know better when it comes to what...

Leader of the Pack: Everyday Magic, Day 514

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 9, 20122 min read

Leader of the Pack: Everyday Magic, Day 514

One dog, and you’re a person with a dog. Two dogs, and you’re part of the pack. I’ve been learning this vividly since Shay moved in with...

The Complexity of Kindness: Everyday Magic, Day 511

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 4, 20123 min read

The Complexity of Kindness: Everyday Magic, Day 511

“It’s because you’re trying to be a good person,” a friend told me when I said I must have been an idiot to call back someone looking for...

Davy Jones: RIP, My First (Kinda, Sorta) True Love: Everyday Magic, Day 510

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 3, 20122 min read

Davy Jones: RIP, My First (Kinda, Sorta) True Love: Everyday Magic, Day 510

The Monkees hit their peak at the exact point that the pre-teen hormones overtook my little person. I say “little” because I was small...

Trying to Find a Moment of Calm in Air-Travel-Hell: Everyday Magic, 505

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 24, 20121 min read

Trying to Find a Moment of Calm in Air-Travel-Hell: Everyday Magic, 505

Maybe hell is too strong a word, I told myself, but after the last update (“We don’t know if the plane will go out, and if not, there are...

A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 22, 20122 min read

A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503

The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a place for the curious, eccentric and more-than-easily amused. So...

Prayer Balloons: Everyday Magic, Day 496

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 9, 20121 min read

Prayer Balloons: Everyday Magic, Day 496

When our family was in a terrible car accident, and Forest was life-flighted to the children’s hospital, after his miraculous recovery,...

Imagining Time Travel to Columbia, Missouri: Everyday Magic, Day 495

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 8, 20123 min read

Imagining Time Travel to Columbia, Missouri: Everyday Magic, Day 495

I just booked a night in a B & B on University Avenue in Columbia, Missouri, on the same block where I once lived 32 years ago. Thanks to...

Easily Amused: Everyday Magic, Day 494

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 6, 20122 min read

Easily Amused: Everyday Magic, Day 494

Many years ago, my first boyfriend told me I was “easily amused,” which is true, and as it turns out, becoming truer as I age. The bar...

Are You the Pretender?: Everyday Magic, Day 491

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 30, 20122 min read

Are You the Pretender?: Everyday Magic, Day 491

I was rushing about the small kitchen of Turning Point: The Center for Healing and Hope, making coffee and putting fruit on trays, when...

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