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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.

Riding With Pack Rats and Waking With Weasels of Political Anxiety: Everyday Magic, Day 1,015

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

4 days ago
3 min

Riding With Pack Rats and Waking With Weasels of Political Anxiety: Everyday Magic, Day 1,015

There it was -- a very large pack rat Ken was ready to fling with a pair of long tongs into the deep woods, far from where we could smell...

The Land is Still the Land: Everyday Magic, Day 1,103

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 14
4 min

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 --...

A Glimpse of the America We Could Be: Everyday Magic, Day 1,102

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 6
4 min

A Glimpse of the America We Could Be: Everyday Magic, Day 1,102

On the eve of July 4th, I saw what our deeply-divided and pitifully-polarized country could be in a Minneapolis city park. Above, around,...

We Just Saved the Land That Saves Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1,101

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 15
5 min

We Just Saved the Land That Saves Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1,101

A few days ago, after 39 years of trying to save the land that we love and where we live, Ken and I spent five minutes signing papers to pro

What Talking About Books Across Kansas Can Do Over 32 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1100

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 2
7 min

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...

Where's Beauty?: Everyday Magic, Day 1099

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 26
4 min

Where's Beauty?: Everyday Magic, Day 1099

I've increasingly realized how I'm on the lookout for beauty most of the time -- the gaze of my dog Moxie when she raises her head from a...

Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 30
4 min

Five Years Later: A Cancer Story: Everyday Magic, Day 1098

"It's either an ocular melanoma or a brain tumor," the doctor told me five years ago. Ken, my brother Ravi, and I all gasped in unison....

In Love and Sorrow For Goddard College: Everyday Magic, Day 1097

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 15
6 min

In Love and Sorrow For Goddard College: Everyday Magic, Day 1097

Right before I was hired to teach at Goddard College in 1996, the then-president, who many believed was set to shut down the college,...

I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 5
3 min

I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096

Truly, and usually with steaming oatmeal and iced tea when I'm half awake. Perhaps I should eat the rejections with a chocolate amaretto...

Birds! Music! And Why is Everyone Yelling at Me?: Everyday Magic, Day 1095

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 14
3 min

Birds! Music! And Why is Everyone Yelling at Me?: Everyday Magic, Day 1095

I finally got hearing aids after several years of Ken and my kids repeating things to me loudly and often with a...

"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 1
4 min

"Life Will Break You": Everyday Magic, Day 1094

Within weeks of my terrifying eye cancer diagnosis in 2019, my friend Harriet brought me this hand-set-type print of my favorite quote...

Living in a City of Writers at a Humongous Convention Center: Everyday Magic, Day 1093

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 14
4 min

Living in a City of Writers at a Humongous Convention Center: Everyday Magic, Day 1093

The elevator door opened on the 16th floor of the Marriott, where I was staying, and there they were: a scraggly bunch, some in oversized...

The Miracle of "Fast Car" Then and Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1092

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 11
3 min

The Miracle of "Fast Car" Then and Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1092

By 1990, my Tracy Chapman cassette tape was played into such oblivion (and so repeatedly tangled in the car tape deck) that I had to buy...

In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 22
2 min

In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091

This weekend, we celebrated the 90th birthday of our friend Herb, hands down one of the most creative and loving humans I've ever met....

Back to a First Love: Everyday Magic, Day 1090

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 7
4 min

Back to a First Love: Everyday Magic, Day 1090

When I was a kid, I drew. All the time. I lived for trips to art supply stores where I might procure new pencils, fresh erasers, some...

How to Build a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1089

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 19, 2023
7 min

How to Build a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1089

How to build a life is really up to the person living that life, but after carrying this topic around in my head for a while, I realized...

The Older I Get, the More I Flirt With Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 1087

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 29, 2023
3 min

The Older I Get, the More I Flirt With Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 1087

I don't mean this metaphorically. I flirt with real dogs everywhere who, as I mosey on toward my mid-60s, turn out to be so much better...

What Can We Do in Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1088

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 22, 2023
3 min

What Can We Do in Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1088

This morning, after waking once again at 5 a.m. freaked out about the state of the world, Gaza and Israel specifically, I eventually gave...

Your Jewish Friends Are Also Not Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1087

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 31, 2023
4 min

Your Jewish Friends Are Also Not Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1087

I am an American Jew in love with the beauty of the world. I am a human in anguish over what others of my species are doing to one...

Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 10, 2023
2 min

Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog

Dear everyone, I'm writing to you because my hunch is you were among the 2,000+ subscribers to my Everyday Magic blog. It's a hunch...

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