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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.

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....

"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...

A Sudden Storm, a Sudden Death: Everyday Magic, Day 1085

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 15, 2023
3 min

A Sudden Storm, a Sudden Death: Everyday Magic, Day 1085

Just before Kris told me at lunch she couldn’t wait for a good thunderstorm, Denise texted Judy and me, “On the way to the hospital. Not...

Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 8, 2023
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...

Love and Death in February: Everyday Magic, Day 1050

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 13, 2022
2 min

Love and Death in February: Everyday Magic, Day 1050

“Maybe since January lasted for seven and a half years, February will be easy,” I said to my friend Kris. She was doubtful since...

In Praise of Goody: Everyday Magic, Day 1032

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 16, 2021
3 min

In Praise of Goody: Everyday Magic, Day 1032

“The world will never be the same,” Ken told me right after Goody Garfield’s burial service. “We were witness to one of a kind, and...

New York City Wander Week: Everyday Magic, Day 988

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 20, 2019
2 min

New York City Wander Week: Everyday Magic, Day 988

I stood in the East Village Friday morning, marveling at a Langston Hughes quote I’ve never seen about falling in love with the energy of...

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 14, 2017
4 min

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...

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,...

Ocean View to Porch View: Everyday Magic, Day 868

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 15, 2016
1 min

Ocean View to Porch View: Everyday Magic, Day 868

Yesterday morning, I walked acros This morning, I walked to my front porch, put my feet up, and stared into the Osage Orange tree and...

Charles Is A Force of Nature: Everyday Magic, Day 862

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 15, 2016
3 min

Charles Is A Force of Nature: Everyday Magic, Day 862

Charles was one of the first Lawrencians I ever met, in about 1981 when I was a member of the Kansas City Sufi community, where Charles...

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...

The Growing Pains of Wild and Woolly Too-Muchness: Everyday Magic, Day 859

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 31, 2016
1 min

The Growing Pains of Wild and Woolly Too-Muchness: Everyday Magic, Day 859

This Memorial Day weekend, I wrote and revised an obituary and memorial service after meeting with my friend’s family, organized some of...

Four Funerals and a Wedding: Everyday Magic, Day 885

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 24, 2016
3 min

Four Funerals and a Wedding: Everyday Magic, Day 885

I used to have more of a "Four weddings and a funeral" life, but get old enough, and things start to shift. In the last month, I've...

Generations: Everyday Magic, Day 884

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 19, 2016
2 min

Generations: Everyday Magic, Day 884

Columbia was where we met in college, or more to the point, because of what we did in our many non-college hours: potlucks with too much...

A Wonder Made of Time and Staying Put: Everyday Magic, Day 883

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 13, 2016
3 min

A Wonder Made of Time and Staying Put: Everyday Magic, Day 883

A few days later, while wandering through the Merc to get a crapload of delicacies for friends facing serious medical woo-hah, I ran into...

Ken Irby, Rest (Travel, Drink, Read and Write) in Peace: Everyday Magic, Day 861

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 30, 2015
4 min

Ken Irby, Rest (Travel, Drink, Read and Write) in Peace: Everyday Magic, Day 861

Last night I got to join some of Ken’s closest friends, some of whom have been devoting themselves to his health and comfort over many...

A Town That Changed My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 859

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 19, 2015
3 min

A Town That Changed My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 859

With old friends, from left, Steve, Dave, and John There was a moment in 1981 when I was driving from Columbia, Missouri to Kansas City,...

Five Wonders at the End of June: Everyday Magic, Day 855

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 29, 2015
2 min

Five Wonders at the End of June: Everyday Magic, Day 855

Mothra! Little wonders abound, and in the last week, here are five I experienced: 1. Mothra! On Sunday we found this guy just off the...

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