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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.

Quick Change Artist in a Parking Lot: Everyday Magic, Day 693

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 9, 20132 min read

Quick Change Artist in a Parking Lot: Everyday Magic, Day 693

Never mind me, I’m just changing my clothes again in a parking lot, going from heels, pantyhose and a silky dress to yoga pants, t-shirt...

Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 11, 20131 min read

Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682

We met the 29 wondrous souls who signed up in October for the first all-day session, saw them again for another day As for the...

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...

Three Books, Three Weeks, Oy Vey!: Everyday Magic, Day 658

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 13, 20122 min read

Three Books, Three Weeks, Oy Vey!: Everyday Magic, Day 658

For the last few months, I’ve opened many emails with proofs of this, that and the other to review, and strangely enough, often the same...

Missing Lou & Maura: Everyday Magic, Day 656

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 3, 20122 min read

Missing Lou & Maura: Everyday Magic, Day 656

Last night at the reading at Ellen (daughter of Jarek) and Marek’s home, people repeatedly asked me how I met Lou, Jane, Jarek and Maura,...

Riding in a Convertible With Books: Everyday Magic, Day 654

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 2, 20122 min read

Riding in a Convertible With Books: Everyday Magic, Day 654

I’ve adopted an attitude of trying to love whatever the readings might bring, even if it’s mostly the sound of my own voice reading a...

Darling, Sweetheart & Baby in Pittsburg, Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 648

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 16, 20121 min read

Darling, Sweetheart & Baby in Pittsburg, Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 648

Is it a Pittsburg, KS thing or just an tender roll of the dice kind of thing? I don’t know, but I liked it. Everywhere I went in...

Back to the Source in New Jersey: Everyday Magic, Day 639

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 23, 20122 min read

Back to the Source in New Jersey: Everyday Magic, Day 639

Reunited after 30 years with Phil Brater, my mentor and dear friend who modeled for me what true witnessing, support and daring to love...

Six Events, Six Cities, Six Days: Everyday Magic, Day 625

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 13, 20122 min read

Six Events, Six Cities, Six Days: Everyday Magic, Day 625

Julie (third from right); her daughters Rebecca (left) with Dina’s baby, and Dina (right); Dina’s other mom Louise (to left of Julie),...

Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 11, 20122 min read

Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624

Yet my life, this book, Kansas, and haunted houses are nothing I could have imagined. The Koester House, a beautiful home in downtown...

My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 7, 20121 min read

My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623

Some of us see our names in lights. For me, it's chalk, and even more miraculously, cookies. When I arrived at Blue Planet Cafe in Topeka...

Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 1, 20122 min read

Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621

Hanging out with Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books in Wichita, and mutually admiring Katherine Towler’s great anthology GOD IN THE...

Turning Point, the Writers Place, the Lied Center and Some Great Barbeque: Everyday Magic, Day 618

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 27, 20122 min read

Turning Point, the Writers Place, the Lied Center and Some Great Barbeque: Everyday Magic, Day 618

Play it forward -- in our words sung, written and spoken -- swayed through my Sunday for people I work with as well as me, myself and I....

“So What Actually Happened?”: Confusing Confluences of Truth & Fiction in The Divor

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 23, 20122 min read

“So What Actually Happened?”: Confusing Confluences of Truth & Fiction in The Divor

One of my mother’s friends apologized to her for how I treated her as a teenager after reading The Divorce Girl. “It’s fiction,” my...

A Day in the Life of the Book Biz: Everyday Magic, Day 605

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 27, 20124 min read

A Day in the Life of the Book Biz: Everyday Magic, Day 605

People outside the book biz often have a notion that once the book comes out, your big work is done, but for most of us who write or...

Finally Married My Book and Now On Honeymoon, or Thank-You, Lawrence, for the Best Book Launch of My

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 15, 20122 min read

Finally Married My Book and Now On Honeymoon, or Thank-You, Lawrence, for the Best Book Launch of My

I know it’s ludicrous to experience a book launch as a marriage, but I couldn’t help the strange overflow from my subconscious, and...

The Books Are Here!: Everyday Magic, Day 597

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 11, 20121 min read

The Books Are Here!: Everyday Magic, Day 597

Why the books were delivered to a tree rather than to our porch dates back to early spring when the UPS guy told us he wouldn’t go up our...

Being a Writer Means Giving Your Brain Daily Adjustments: Everyday Magic, Day 588

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 18, 20123 min read

Being a Writer Means Giving Your Brain Daily Adjustments: Everyday Magic, Day 588

24 hours ago, I was in a tizzy about the writing life: I had reached out to dozens of people through emails and calls to set up readings,...

Friday Afternoon: Everyday Magic, Day 582

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 8, 20122 min read

Friday Afternoon: Everyday Magic, Day 582

The hackberry tree’s leaves waver slower than the walnut’s while the cedar sways as if under water. The dog sleeps on the worn planks of...

Pinneapple Power, Couger Blessing & Other Wonders of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 551

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 20, 20123 min read

Pinneapple Power, Couger Blessing & Other Wonders of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 551

Friday, I landed home from the 7th annual Brave Voice: Writing & Singing for Your Life retreat that Kelley Hunt and I blessedly do...

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