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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 Older I Get, the More I Flirt With Dogs

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

4 days ago
3 min

The Older I Get, the More I Flirt With Dogs

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...

Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 10
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...

A Sound Bath in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Everyday Magic, Day 1086

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 27
3 min

A Sound Bath in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Everyday Magic, Day 1086

I start out walking through cicadas, thousands, millions, maybe billions of them — this is Arkansas so it’s hard to know — a tunnel of...

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 15
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...

Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 21
3 min

Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077

A few days ago I went to my seventh and perhaps my last Springsteen concert, which was (as always) a tour de force love child of sacred...

Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 21
3 min

Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075

I was fifteen years ago and miserable when I first went to a youth group Havdalah service one winter evening. I was living with my very...

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 4, 2022
4 min

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...

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....

Living As If We Know We’ll Be Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1068

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 7, 2022
3 min

Living As If We Know We’ll Be Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1068

In one of my favorite movies, About Time, the main character, who can time travel, hatches a great plan: he’ll live each day with all its...

We Never Leave You, You Never Leave Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1064

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 6, 2022
5 min

We Never Leave You, You Never Leave Us: Everyday Magic, Day 1064

I left because it was making me sick, the “it” being the job I had loved fiercely and believed Iwould give my heart and time to until I...

“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...

The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19, 2022
2 min

The Quiet In-Betweens: Everyday Magic, Day 1055

Sometimes I feel like I’m at a sudden still point between waves of motion and change. Like right now as I sit in a floral chair in my...

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...

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...

For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 18, 2021
2 min

For the Love of Mike and His Art: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

For years, they arrived regularly, two or three batches every month or so that always included one for me, one for Ken, and occasionally...

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

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 24, 2021
2 min

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...

For the Love of Phil on the Day of the Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 2, 2021
4 min

For the Love of Phil on the Day of the Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

It’s not lost on me that it’s the Day of the Dead, when we remember and honor our departed beloveds (between Oct. 31-Nov. 2 this year)....

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...

10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 15, 2021
2 min

10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

Kelley Hunt and my 16th annual six-day Brave Voice, Sept. 19-24 in Council Grove, Kansas. We have strong Covid protocols in place to keep...

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