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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.

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...

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...

Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Oct 22, 2018
2 min

Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955

The big picture mind-blowing expanses are all around, from a distance golden variegated hazes that upon closer range become crazy quilts...

“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 8, 2018
3 min

“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949

In one of Rumi's poems, I love these lines especially: Reach your long hands out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the...

After 64 Consecutive Semesters, Taking a Break: Everyday Magic, Day 941

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Jun 5, 2018
3 min

After 64 Consecutive Semesters, Taking a Break: Everyday Magic, Day 941

I started teaching when I was 26. It was English 101 at the University of Kansas, a gig I figured would help me get through graduate...

Teaching Writing for the Love of It: Everyday Magic, Day 841

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 1, 2015
4 min

Teaching Writing for the Love of It: Everyday Magic, Day 841

Tom McAfee years before I met him Believe me, I wasn’t a good poet when I studied creative writing as an undergraduate. I don’t say this...

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,...

Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 4, 2012
1 min

Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607

The air is warm and damp (mid-80s and humid) as opposed to dry and hot (like the 109 predicted for Kansas today). The rain comes often....

Dwelling in Uncertainty & Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 504

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 23, 2012
2 min

Dwelling in Uncertainty & Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 504

The view from my office on the cusp of the incoming storm When is it most difficult to dwell in uncertainty? When you’re exhausted and...

A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 22, 2012
2 min

A Museum for the Particularly Curious: Everyday Magic, Day 503

The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is a place for the curious, eccentric and more-than-easily amused. So...

Readying Myself to Roll: Everyday Magic, Day 497

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 11, 2012
2 min

Readying Myself to Roll: Everyday Magic, Day 497

The cat packs herself for the trip Come Monday morning, I head down the magic rabbit hole between my home in a house on the prairie in...

At the Cusp Between Worlds: Everyday Magic, Day 385

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 12, 2011
1 min

At the Cusp Between Worlds: Everyday Magic, Day 385

There’s been a lot of humidity and humility, a big thunder bolt (or two), many rehearsals for “Riverdance,” which some of us faculty...

Secrets of the Faculty Dorm: Everyday Magic, Day 383

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 5, 2011
2 min

Secrets of the Faculty Dorm: Everyday Magic, Day 383

I would tell you, but then I would have to kill you…..or seek your word you won’t breathe a word to everyone, which I guess I’m doing...

Living My Dream to Be a Tina Turner Backup Dancer: Everyday Magic, Day 265

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 12, 2011
2 min

Living My Dream to Be a Tina Turner Backup Dancer: Everyday Magic, Day 265

A few nights ago, I was upstairs in Dewey Dorm at Goddard College with a bunch of new fast friends (fellow faculty), watching a video of...

Driving Nowhere In The Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 260

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 7, 2011
1 min

Driving Nowhere In The Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 260

When I say I drove nowhere in the dark last night, I'm not talking metaphorically, or at least not just. I got in the car, thinking I...

Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 1, 2011
1 min

Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254

The snow’s job is to fall steady and thick all night and all day. The sky’s job is to let it. Meanwhile, my job is to talk with BFA...

I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore, Toto….Or Are We?: Everyday Magic, Day 253

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 31, 2011
2 min

I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore, Toto….Or Are We?: Everyday Magic, Day 253

The call came at 4 p.m. yesterday: would I jump on a plane today and come back to Vermont to teach in Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing...

Suspended Animation in Cleveland: Everyday Magic, Days 217-218

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 24, 2011
2 min

Suspended Animation in Cleveland: Everyday Magic, Days 217-218

Cleveland, nothing against you, but I don’t really know you, and sitting in this airport for hours isn’t helping the matter. I’ve...

Two Links That Converge In My Heart

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 2, 2011
1 min

Two Links That Converge In My Heart

I want to share two links that seemingly may seem different — one is a poem about February — or more precisely, our little blizzard...

It’s Graduation Day: Everyday Magic, Days 25-26

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Aug 8, 2010
2 min

It’s Graduation Day: Everyday Magic, Days 25-26

Today I watched nine of our students graduate -- nine people who came here to Goddard College with a passion for studying something of...

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