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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.

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...

Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 26, 2021
2 min

Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061

Lying in bed this morning between layers of flannel with a purring kitty under the covers with me, I dreamed in and out of the call of a...

“God’s Got You, Baby”: Everyday Magic, Day 976

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 17, 2019
3 min

“God’s Got You, Baby”: Everyday Magic, Day 976

That’s what Cynthia said as she led me back to the surgery prep room when I told her I was scared. “And don’t you worry because God made...

Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 9, 2017
2 min

Putting the New Poetry Book to Bed: Everyday Magic, Day 905

It’s called “putting the book to bed” when you turn in your final version of a whole bunch of pages about to be published as a real, live...

We're All Such Delicate Creatures, But At Least We're In Good Company: Everyday Magic, Day 895

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 29, 2017
3 min

We're All Such Delicate Creatures, But At Least We're In Good Company: Everyday Magic, Day 895

Everyone I know has something hard to live or live with: the everyday heartbreak of going on when a greatly beloved is dead or gone, a...

Voting for All the Girls, Women, and Beyond-Gender-People We Love, Know, Were or Are

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 5, 2016
4 min

Voting for All the Girls, Women, and Beyond-Gender-People We Love, Know, Were or Are

When I walk into the voting booth Tuesday and pencil in the bubble for Clinton/Kaine, I have no doubt I’ll be crying in hope for who I’m...

Surviving with Gumption & Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 875

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 8, 2016
21 min

Surviving with Gumption & Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 875

Days of Caring event in Hays, Kansas — a luncheon and fashion show to raise awareness about breast cancer. Here’s the talk I gave,...

A Young Woman in the Land of Yoga: Everyday Magic, Day 867

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 3, 2016
3 min

A Young Woman in the Land of Yoga: Everyday Magic, Day 867

Your Yoga in Minneapolis, a fine yoga center and school, six years after she first fell for yoga. When I visited with her in June, I...

Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 6, 2016
4 min

Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860

Celebrating Claudia’s birthday at the concert with Michel Loomis Listening to the astonishingly spirited Claudia Schmidt perform a house...

Digging into What’s Mine to Chill Out the Fixer-Bee: Everyday Magic 856

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 5, 2016
2 min

Digging into What’s Mine to Chill Out the Fixer-Bee: Everyday Magic 856

In the past week, because I was on a mini vacation (when the shit always seems to especially hit the fan), I kept bumping into my...

What’s So Good About Being Sick? Everyday Magic 895

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 16, 2016
3 min

What’s So Good About Being Sick? Everyday Magic 895

Sometimes the body says, “Stop!” in the most eloquent language it can, a slim intuition that lands sweetly in the center of our...

When the Ocean is There, Jump In: Everyday Magic, Day 875

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 21, 2015
2 min

When the Ocean is There, Jump In: Everyday Magic, Day 875

Living in Kansas, where both swimming in salt water, let alone oceans, and seeing dolphins (which I saw both days) is usually something...

No More Waiting on Weight-Loss: Everyday Magic, Day 820

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 4, 2014
2 min

No More Waiting on Weight-Loss: Everyday Magic, Day 820

“Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts?” William Stafford asks in one of my poems, and for me, when it comes to...

Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 7, 2014
2 min

Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811

As a kid, I lived on my bike, a daily ritual of pouring down the hill where I lived or trudging back up when it was time to go home. My...

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 26, 2014
2 min

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...

“It’s Not Just a Body; It’s An Adventure”: Everyday Magic, Day 753

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 23, 2013
2 min

“It’s Not Just a Body; It’s An Adventure”: Everyday Magic, Day 753

This is what a dear friends of mine said about having a kidney removed today. The kidney had to go because it harbored a tumor, and the...

Beauty, Balance, Forgiveness, Forgiveness: Everyday Magic, Day 726

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 22, 2013
2 min

Beauty, Balance, Forgiveness, Forgiveness: Everyday Magic, Day 726

Swimming across the blue-green quarry pond in Vermont last week, and lately across the turquoise city pool in Kansas, I’ve found myself...

What’s Good Enough, and What a Bunch of Fast-Swimming Little Kids Showed Me: Everyday Magic, D

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 28, 2013
2 min

What’s Good Enough, and What a Bunch of Fast-Swimming Little Kids Showed Me: Everyday Magic, D

I was feeling pretty good about building up to 18 laps in the pool from my previous staying power of 10 laps or less. Then I asked three...

Getting Into the Swim of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 712

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 3, 2013
2 min

Getting Into the Swim of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 712

Strangely enough, jumping into a pool and doing laps has topped my list of what I feel like doing at any given moment, even surpassing...

Losing Weight to Gain More Life: Everyday Magic, Day 636

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 13, 2012
2 min

Losing Weight to Gain More Life: Everyday Magic, Day 636

Mom and me before we started losing weight My doctor put his arm around me, looked into my eyes and said, “I’m going to be hard on you....

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