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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.

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...

Back in the Porch in Big Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 1079

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 4, 2023
2 min

Back in the Porch in Big Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 1079

“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter,” the Beatles sang, and while my winter wasn’t so lonely, it felt unduly long and...

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 12, 2022
4 min

Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

Weather. That was the theme of the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills, and because of all my weather poetry, especially my poem “Being Made...

Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 16, 2022
2 min

Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058

Yesterday began with running outside in our pajamas to cut irises as fast as possible while 70 mph winds and a giant thunderstorm...

A Limping Coyote in the Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 1051

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 24, 2022
2 min

A Limping Coyote in the Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 1051

Yesterday, I was surprised by how big he was, and how, from a distance, he looked sleek and strong. But then he came closer, making...

Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 20, 2021
2 min

Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

We are living in a world of rain lately, and according to the weather forecast, this is life as we know it into the foreseeable process. ...

The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 24, 2020
3 min

The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007

As I watch the Pendleton’s peonies I just bought rush from tight little balls to full-throttle fireworks of blossoms, I keep thinking of...

In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 23, 2020
2 min

In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994

Each day I crave a clear view of a clear sky, but fog, snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, and variety packs of all this percipitation at...

A Lightening Up: Everyday Magic, Day 967

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 10, 2019
2 min

A Lightening Up: Everyday Magic, Day 967

Daylight Savings Time, beside being a kick that keeps kicking our sleeping patterns for a while, heralds a kind of lightening up,...

Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 16, 2019
2 min

Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965

As life has repeatedly, February is the longest month. Maybe it’s the overwrought repetition of cold, ice, and snow after months of...

The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 24, 2018
2 min

The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940

With temperatures rising to summertime and good rains falling last week, everything is speeding into growth around this house. The hostas...

Weeding in the Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 938

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 3, 2018
2 min

Weeding in the Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 938

I felt that call of the garden as soon as Ken and I stepped out for our evening walk around the edges of the fields. “Let’s just stay...

Annual Magnolia Walk: Everyday Magic, Day 935

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 31, 2018
2 min

Annual Magnolia Walk: Everyday Magic, Day 935

I love magnolia trees. Let me be more honest: I really and deeply love magnolia blossoms, and it’s one of my recurring nightmares to miss...

Equinox Quirks in East Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 933

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 20, 2018
1 min

Equinox Quirks in East Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 933

Nothing like a brisk walk on the first day of spring in East Lawrence with a good friend. Along the way, we saw many more friendly sites,...

Prevernal Wonders: Everyday Magic, Day 932

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 16, 2018
2 min

Prevernal Wonders: Everyday Magic, Day 932

I love the prevernal season perhaps best of all: that space between the start of spring and before the leafing out of the big, green...

First Lightning of the New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 925

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 21, 2018
1 min

First Lightning of the New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 925

The thunder comes rumbles to east, the lightning flashes irregularly in the southwest corner of my window, and the air is full. I open...

A Bright, Beautiful Day and Why I Blog: Everyday Magic, Day 923

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 3, 2018
2 min

A Bright, Beautiful Day and Why I Blog: Everyday Magic, Day 923

I started and persist for two reasons: to build more of an audience for my books, workshops, and other freelancing curves of work, and...

Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 20, 2017
3 min

Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912

I think of people in central Mexico, working frantically to unearth possible survivors from collapsed buildings from the 7.1 earthquake...

An Expansive Kansas Road Trip in a Concise Time: Everyday Magic, Day 910

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 6, 2017
2 min

An Expansive Kansas Road Trip in a Concise Time: Everyday Magic, Day 910

Kansas Humanities Council talk on wild weather in poetry, photography and our lives at one of the great community jewels-of-a-library,...

Just-Doing-That-Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 893

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 11, 2017
1 min

Just-Doing-That-Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 893

Snow, do you forsake the forsythia? This land’s Osage Indians, like many tribal people, named each month for its ecological context,...

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