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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.

Good Conversation on the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1083

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 26
2 min

Good Conversation on the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1083

The temps soared to the high 90s, the sun was bright, and Ken and I took to the open road on Saturday for me to give a Humanities Kansas...

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...

Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?: Everyday Magic, Day 1070

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 12, 2022
3 min

Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?: Everyday Magic, Day 1070

Time continually befuddles me, so much so that my last book of poetry was called How Time Moves, and I’m still deep in the muck of...

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...

Reversal of Fortune and the Wonder Wheel of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1065

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 23, 2022
2 min

Reversal of Fortune and the Wonder Wheel of Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1065

In mid-July, everything fell apart from air-conditioners to phones to cars and more. A growing river of money and time surged out to...

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...

Traveling Woman: Everyday Magic, Day 1059

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 11, 2022
2 min

Traveling Woman: Everyday Magic, Day 1059

Suddenly, I’m on the road a lot after the time-bending months of the pandemic. I went to Wichita for a night to visit with an old friend...

On the First Night of August: Everyday Magic, Day 1012

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 1, 2020
3 min

On the First Night of August: Everyday Magic, Day 1012

Sometime in my early teens, I discovered Carole King’s Rhymes and Reasons, and like I had done with Joni Mitchell’s Blue (was there ever...

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...

Where I Live: A New Year’s Moment: Everyday Magic, Day 986

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 29, 2019
2 min

Where I Live: A New Year’s Moment: Everyday Magic, Day 986

I’ve always lived in the wind and sky. From my Brooklyn bedroom, upstairs in a narrow triplex somewhere in East Flatbush, I would lean...

Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 7, 2019
4 min

Loving and Leaving Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 981

Arm-in-arm, Vicky, Eduardo, Ralph, and I walked down the snowy country road, belting out “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and doing...

Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 7, 2019
1 min

Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970

On our trip to Brooklyn, New York City, and New Jersey — aka the mothership for me — grace abounded, often like a slip of paper or wings...

Looking for Patterns and Finding Them Everywhere: Everyday Magic, Day 961

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 9, 2019
3 min

Looking for Patterns and Finding Them Everywhere: Everyday Magic, Day 961

When Ken and I went to Mount St. Helens with friends several years ago, I was dazzled by the patterned forests full of checkerboard green...

I’m in Love With a Great Lake: Everyday Magic, Day 946

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 23, 2018
3 min

I’m in Love With a Great Lake: Everyday Magic, Day 946

I’m in love with Lake Superior, and the more I visit, the deeper I fall. Not only is this the greatest of the Great Lakes, containing 10%...

On the Cusp of the Vacation: Everyday Magic, Day 945

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 12, 2018
2 min

On the Cusp of the Vacation: Everyday Magic, Day 945

At this moment, the car is packed except for the vitamins, which would melt. The gas tank is full. I have a little cash in my wallet, and...

Annual Pilgrimage to Our Patron Saint: Mary Chapin Carpenter: Everyday Magic, Day 944

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 4, 2018
3 min

Annual Pilgrimage to Our Patron Saint: Mary Chapin Carpenter: Everyday Magic, Day 944

This year Kelley Hunt and I trekked to Wichita for a long day’s night to the Wabi Sabi (beautiful, decaying, and full of soul and...

Recipes From (and For) the Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 930

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 25, 2018
4 min

Recipes From (and For) the Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 930

No surprise that food looms large in all my memoirs and novels, whether it’s the hunt for the best fried chicken in Kansas (in the...

In-Between Time: Everyday Magic, Day 929

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 14, 2018
2 min

In-Between Time: Everyday Magic, Day 929

Yesterday was an in-between day taken up with driving, flying, walking long underground vortexes of color and sound, flying some more,...

The Secret Lives of Old Quilt Tops: Everyday Magic, Day 927

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 6, 2018
2 min

The Secret Lives of Old Quilt Tops: Everyday Magic, Day 927

Years ago, I fell in love with a massive quilt of stars hand-sewn by an old woman at her garage sale. “It’s made from those cloth sacks...

Losing and Finding My C’hai (Which is Not a Dala Horse): Everyday Magic, Day 915

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 9, 2017
2 min

Losing and Finding My C’hai (Which is Not a Dala Horse): Everyday Magic, Day 915

At breakfast at the Swedish Country Inn in Lindsborg, Kansas, someone said she liked my tiny gold Dala horse necklace. It took me a...

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