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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.

Tucked into the Clouds: Everyday Magic, Day 888

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jan 16, 2017
1 min

Tucked into the Clouds: Everyday Magic, Day 888

But what there is: a dog napping on the couch behind Christmas lights adorning shelves for the cats to climb and sleep on, skillet corn...

Right Before the Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 869

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 19, 2016
1 min

Right Before the Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 869

The sky is steely blue and getting steelier as the silver-gray of the coming storm flushes the expanse from horizon on up. The...

Insomnia with Stars, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning Bugs: Everyday Magic, Day 866

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jul 25, 2016
1 min

Insomnia with Stars, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning Bugs: Everyday Magic, Day 866

There’s something to said for seeing in the dark especially when the first rain in weeks makes both a dramatic and gentle entrance,...

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...

Yup, It’s Hot Out, But It’s Also Kind of Lovely: Everyday Magic, Day 861

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 11, 2016
2 min

Yup, It’s Hot Out, But It’s Also Kind of Lovely: Everyday Magic, Day 861

It’s hot, and it will be hot for the foreseeable future with highs in the 90s through most of the rest of June. Then it turns July, when...

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...

Just Another Kansas Night Cleaning the Basement and Tracking Tornadoes: Everyday (and night) Magic,

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 26, 2016
1 min

Just Another Kansas Night Cleaning the Basement and Tracking Tornadoes: Everyday (and night) Magic,

It’s been a whirl of excessive humidity, insomnia, drawings of monsters from another planet, long-track tornadoes, and rusted ice cream...

The Wild Weather of Dying: Everyday Magic, Day 892

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 23, 2016
2 min

The Wild Weather of Dying: Everyday Magic, Day 892

For the last 11 days, my family’s life has been wrapped around the last phase of my mother-in-law’s life, first in the hospital, and...

Why Would Anyone Leave Lawrence, Kansas?: Everyday Magic, Day 869

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 12, 2015
3 min

Why Would Anyone Leave Lawrence, Kansas?: Everyday Magic, Day 869

Last night I dreamed that we had just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where our oldest son now lives, because Ken got a kick-ass job...

An Abundance of Cicadas, Hackberry Butterflies, and Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 853

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 15, 2015
2 min

An Abundance of Cicadas, Hackberry Butterflies, and Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 853

So much comes so thick and fast sometimes, like this June when the 17-year cicadas hatched at the same time as the unleashing of...

Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 839

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 14, 2015
1 min

Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 839

Meanwhile, there is the need to get from Point A to Point B, which required vast planning and exact execution of many layers of clothing,...

Stomping Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 838

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 8, 2015
2 min

Stomping Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 838

How close to the house? Very. I wanted to eat pizza with friends. Instead, I stomped fire. Maybe that’s a strong narrative thread in my...

Back to the Pool, Whining All the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 837

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 1, 2015
2 min

Back to the Pool, Whining All the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 837

I wanted to go. I didn’t want to go. I figured I might, but probably wouldn’t, yet just in case, I tossed the bathing suit and towel in...

What Is a Year?: Everyday Magic, Day 833

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 31, 2014
3 min

What Is a Year?: Everyday Magic, Day 833

If 2014 was a mouse, I’d let my cats kill it, and then I would, like I do with all their usual triumphs, pick it up by the tip of its...

Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Dec 14, 2014
3 min

Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, I discovered what many already know about wandering through the world of serious...

The Astonishing Beauty of the Last Drop of Autumn: Everyday Magic, Day 824

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Nov 10, 2014
2 min

The Astonishing Beauty of the Last Drop of Autumn: Everyday Magic, Day 824

There's something about this afternoon: the autumn colors still brilliant, maybe even more brilliant than usual against the backdrop of...

The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 2, 2014
2 min

The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819

There’s nothing like listening to Wagner while lightning illuminates a vast, dark grey monster you’re driving right into at highway...

Northerning: Everyday Magic, Day 815

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 2, 2014
2 min

Northerning: Everyday Magic, Day 815

Hello, my name is Lake Michigan Usually summer aims me west, the direction any self-respecting Kansan wants to go when the temperatures...

A Good Rain in a Time of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 814

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Sep 1, 2014
2 min

A Good Rain in a Time of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 814

I’m sitting in the middle of my screened-in-porch while thunders roars to my east, and wind swooshes from my west. The sound of the rain...

Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 7, 2014
2 min

Back on the Bike: Everyday Magic, Day 811

As a kid, I lived on my bike, a daily ritual of pouring down the hill where I lived or trudging back up when it was time to go home. My...

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