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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.

Aging Isn't What You Expect: Everyday Magic, Day 1,113

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

7 days ago3 min read

Aging Isn't What You Expect: Everyday Magic, Day 1,113

"How are we? How do we think we are? We are just waiting to die," Nanny (my grandmother) would tell me when I asked how she and Papa (my...

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 304 min read

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....

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 29, 20233 min read

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...

Things Come in Waves: Everyday Magic, Day 1086

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 17, 20232 min read

Things Come in Waves: Everyday Magic, Day 1086

The weather, for instance: it’s everything lovely at once, then the opposite. I know yet again after looking at the forecast for highs in...

For the Love of Aunt Jill: Everyday Magic, Day 1072

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 4, 20224 min read

For the Love of Aunt Jill: Everyday Magic, Day 1072

“I’m not going to leave a message,” my sister Lauren said when she left a message Friday. I was standing in the corner of an ebullient...

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 24, 20212 min read

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

There’s something both stark and magical about the time right before the holiday season opens wide and emcompasses us in a whole lot of...

9/11 From the Vantage Point of a Subway Dweller: Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 11, 20215 min read

9/11 From the Vantage Point of a Subway Dweller: Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Twenty years ago it happened. Ten years ago I wrote this post. So much of it is still true, and there’s so much more to say about the...

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 15, 20213 min read

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....

Loving Aunt Rhoda: Everyday Magic, Day 1039

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 25, 20213 min read

Loving Aunt Rhoda: Everyday Magic, Day 1039

All my life, I heard the old folk song “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” as “Go Tell Aunt Rhoda,” and since I had an Aunt Rhoda, this seemed very...

Loving Aunt Wilma: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 30, 20214 min read

Loving Aunt Wilma: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

Sunday evening, we sat on our back deck around an outdoor table and a wedding gift from Aunt Wilma and Uncle Ron 36-plus years ago, a...

There But for Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 963

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 31, 20192 min read

There But for Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 963

Eighteen years ago, we almost lost our youngest son Forest in a car accident involving black ice, three kids and me in a van, and the...

Alice: Praising My Mother-in-Law: Everyday Magic, Day 957

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 18, 20182 min read

Alice: Praising My Mother-in-Law: Everyday Magic, Day 957

After crowd-sourcing some of the details for this poem from her children (including my husband), here’s what I wrote for the woman who...

I Had No Idea! — Some of What Being a Mother Showed Me: Everyday Magic, Day 924

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 8, 20182 min read

I Had No Idea! — Some of What Being a Mother Showed Me: Everyday Magic, Day 924

I had no idea how how much unconditional love I was capable, and before becoming a mother, I only had a glance of this light I’ve now...

In Gratitude for Neil: Everyday Magic, Day 917

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 18, 20173 min read

In Gratitude for Neil: Everyday Magic, Day 917

We sat at a small table in La Prima Tassa on a spring day filtering sunshine across our table, sipping tea and updating each other on our...

Loving Uncle Ron: Everyday Magic, Day 914

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 3, 20174 min read

Loving Uncle Ron: Everyday Magic, Day 914

It started with gerunds, a grammatical term for verbs that end in “ing.” To write directly and precisely, writers are supposed to avoid...

The Everyday Miracle of Rainbows: Everyday Magic, Day 904

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 1, 20173 min read

The Everyday Miracle of Rainbows: Everyday Magic, Day 904

Why I didn’t see a rainbow until I was 12 was because I wasn’t looking, not having imagined rainbows were possible in real life. Growing...

Mothering Hacks Picked Up Along the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 898

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 14, 20174 min read

Mothering Hacks Picked Up Along the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 898

We were exhausted and exuberant when we brought Daniel home from the hospital intensive care following some complications in his birthing...

The Patron Saint of Just-Being Returns the Music: Everyday Magic, Day 892

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 3, 20172 min read

The Patron Saint of Just-Being Returns the Music: Everyday Magic, Day 892

In the two-plus years since our dear friend Jerry died, I’ve occasionally resumed my search for my Ipod mini, a little music player I...

The Day After Christmas: Everyday Magic, Day 883

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 26, 20162 min read

The Day After Christmas: Everyday Magic, Day 883

The day after Christmas is a clearing and arrival at once on the other side of what too often has felt like a great divide for me (check...

Birthdays, Graduations and Charmed Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 880

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 3, 20161 min read

Birthdays, Graduations and Charmed Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 880

I’ve come across this bracelet before, like a treasure lost in a pond that comes ashore haphazardly, and put it away again as a relic of...

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