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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.

Homing In: Everyday Magic, Day 680

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 24, 2013
3 min

Homing In: Everyday Magic, Day 680

The world of travel farce is narrow and treacherous. What wouldn’t shake me much in ordinary life level me here. My burrowing animal...

Turns Lemons in Bagels & Lox: Everyday Magic, Day 678

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 22, 2013
2 min

Turns Lemons in Bagels & Lox: Everyday Magic, Day 678

Dinner on the way When travel plans fall apart, my tendency is to fall apart with them, but weeping at airline ticket counters tends to...

When the View Changes: Everyday Magic, Day 677

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 12, 2013
2 min

When the View Changes: Everyday Magic, Day 677

Now, as if it’s an ordinary day, which it kind of is, I sit in Capitol Grinds, my coffee shop hangout in Montpelier, Vermont. Ahead is a...

Last Morning of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 665

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 31, 2012
2 min

Last Morning of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 665

It’s the last morning of 2012, a year that doesn’t translate for me easily into a phrase or two. It was hotter than hell. The drought did...

Planes, Trains, Ships & Automobiles: Everyday Magic, Day 657

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 11, 2012
1 min

Planes, Trains, Ships & Automobiles: Everyday Magic, Day 657

In the last ten days, I've traveled by airplane, convertible, foot, SUV, cruise ship, minivan, tram, car, swimming, and even bed and hot...

At Sea: Everyday Magic, Day 656

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 9, 2012
2 min

At Sea: Everyday Magic, Day 656

Cruise ships are a particularly bizarre way to be at sea because the agenda here seems more focused on being a luxury resort where all...

Missing Lou & Maura: Everyday Magic, Day 656

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 3, 2012
2 min

Missing Lou & Maura: Everyday Magic, Day 656

Last night at the reading at Ellen (daughter of Jarek) and Marek’s home, people repeatedly asked me how I met Lou, Jane, Jarek and Maura,...

Riding in a Convertible With Books: Everyday Magic, Day 654

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 2, 2012
2 min

Riding in a Convertible With Books: Everyday Magic, Day 654

I’ve adopted an attitude of trying to love whatever the readings might bring, even if it’s mostly the sound of my own voice reading a...

Darling, Sweetheart & Baby in Pittsburg, Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 648

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 16, 2012
1 min

Darling, Sweetheart & Baby in Pittsburg, Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 648

Is it a Pittsburg, KS thing or just an tender roll of the dice kind of thing? I don’t know, but I liked it. Everywhere I went in...

Thinking About New Jersey & New York: Everyday Magic, Day 642

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 31, 2012
2 min

Thinking About New Jersey & New York: Everyday Magic, Day 642

A week ago, we drove with ease across Monmouth County in central New Jersey, and then back again before foraying out another direction...

Six Beds in 12 Days: Everyday Magic, Day 641

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 25, 2012
3 min

Six Beds in 12 Days: Everyday Magic, Day 641

The biggest bed of the lot in Washington, D.C., half-submerged underground Last night I slept on the 15th floor of a high-rise apartment,...

Six Events, Six Cities, Six Days: Everyday Magic, Day 625

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 13, 2012
2 min

Six Events, Six Cities, Six Days: Everyday Magic, Day 625

Julie (third from right); her daughters Rebecca (left) with Dina’s baby, and Dina (right); Dina’s other mom Louise (to left of Julie),...

Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 11, 2012
2 min

Golden Lions, Ghosts of Love and Other Adventures of the Book Tour: Everyday Magic, Day 624

Yet my life, this book, Kansas, and haunted houses are nothing I could have imagined. The Koester House, a beautiful home in downtown...

Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 1, 2012
2 min

Loving My Book Tour & the Open Road: Everyday Magic, Day 621

Hanging out with Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books in Wichita, and mutually admiring Katherine Towler’s great anthology GOD IN THE...

Turning Point, the Writers Place, the Lied Center and Some Great Barbeque: Everyday Magic, Day 618

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 27, 2012
2 min

Turning Point, the Writers Place, the Lied Center and Some Great Barbeque: Everyday Magic, Day 618

Play it forward -- in our words sung, written and spoken -- swayed through my Sunday for people I work with as well as me, myself and I....

Hanging Out With My Inner Travel Agent: Everyday Magic, Day 616

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 24, 2012
1 min

Hanging Out With My Inner Travel Agent: Everyday Magic, Day 616

My inner travel agent is relentless. When she surfaces to book my trips, she keeps me up late finding the flight that’s least likely (as...

What’s In My Car?: Everyday Magic, Day 609

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 11, 2012
2 min

What’s In My Car?: Everyday Magic, Day 609

Cleaning out the car today, I discovered how prepared I am for impromptu camping, yoga, reading or flossing, not to mention vacuuming....

Getting Down on the Gitche Gumee: Everyday Magic, Day 594

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 5, 2012
1 min

Getting Down on the Gitche Gumee: Everyday Magic, Day 594

The changes are startling and beautiful. From the blue, calm lake feathered with pink highlights late afternoon our first day, or the...

The Dog Days of Summer Are Barking Loud & Early: Everyday Magic, Day 590

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 25, 2012
1 min

The Dog Days of Summer Are Barking Loud & Early: Everyday Magic, Day 590

When I first moved to Kansas, people told me that the weather — especially the summers — build character. But the way this weather builds...

Staycation 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 557

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 31, 2012
2 min

Staycation 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 557

My friend Ruth’s visit coincided with a week I had little planned and barely a deadline to meet in addition to a sudden realization about...

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