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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.

The Most Beautiful Thing is Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1080

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19
2 min

The Most Beautiful Thing is Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1080

As soon as we started driving west from Kansas City International Airport Monday, I fell in love again with late afternoon light play and...

Back in the Porch in Big Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 1079

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 4
2 min

Back in the Porch in Big Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 1079

“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter,” the Beatles sang, and while my winter wasn’t so lonely, it felt unduly long and...

Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 8
2 min

Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074

Juxtapositions — putting like with non-like — add zip, surprise, sometimes anxiety, and often uncertainty to our lives. They’re also at...

27 Things I’m Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 26, 2022
3 min

27 Things I’m Grateful For: Everyday Magic, Day 1071

It’s almost twilight, Moxie dog is sleeping in the corner, my ears are buzzing with low-hum tinnitus, and I’m about to make dinner....

Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 7, 2022
2 min

Why I Love the Hard-Won: Everyday Magic, Day 1066

Walking to the edge of the deck this early morning to take this photo of the fog burning off the brome field and the prairie, I felt...

We Used to Write Letters: Everyday Magic, Day 1062

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 10, 2022
3 min

We Used to Write Letters: Everyday Magic, Day 1062

Dear Readers, For last month, I’ve been on an archeological colonoscopy into my past as I sorted through boxes and big plastic vats of...

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 12, 2022
4 min

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Weather. That was the theme of the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills, and because of all my weather poetry, especially my poem “Being Made...

Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 16, 2022
2 min

Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Yesterday began with running outside in our pajamas to cut irises as fast as possible while 70 mph winds and a giant thunderstorm...

“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 13, 2022
3 min

“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Going from winter (otherwise known as much of April) to summer (disguised as May this year) has plummeted many of us in Kansas into the...

Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 30, 2022
4 min

Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056

Cancer is often measured in anniversaries and fruit. We survivors often report in with our years out from the cancer after our initial...

My Friend Vaughn and the Walk to the House Down the Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1054

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 30, 2022
4 min

My Friend Vaughn and the Walk to the House Down the Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1054

“Vaughn keeps talking about the house down the road,” Julie, his wife, told me just a few days before he died. I listened on the other...

Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 29, 2022
3 min

Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049

I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...

Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 20, 2022
2 min

Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048

At Checkers, our big locally-owned grocery store the other day, the check-out lines snaked across the frozen food section with six or so...

The Call: Everyday Magic, Day 1057

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 7, 2021
2 min

The Call: Everyday Magic, Day 1057

This morning, I gave a short talk at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation’s Rosh Hashana service on Shafarot, a calling to live...

In Search of the Big-Ass Trees: Everyday Magic, Day 1046

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 31, 2021
2 min

In Search of the Big-Ass Trees: Everyday Magic, Day 1046

When we went to the Pacific Northwest earlier this month, we had a mission: behold as many big-ass trees as possible. Thanks to our...

When Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 15, 2021
3 min

When Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044

Kansas roses struggle once summer gets its heat on, but I have found a land where everything is coming up roses: the Pacific Northwest....

The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 18, 2021
4 min

The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041

Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...

Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 20, 2021
2 min

Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

We are living in a world of rain lately, and according to the weather forecast, this is life as we know it into the foreseeable process. ...

“Life Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 11, 2021
3 min

“Life Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031

“This is probably the last time we’ll be able to do this,” we nervously joked with each other a year ago. We were friends, gathered at...

Birds Are the Best Thing About Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 1029

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 13, 2021
3 min

Birds Are the Best Thing About Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 1029

When the temperature gets near or below zero, survival comes into sharper focus for us all, but so do birds and their survival without...

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