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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041
Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Feb 21, 2020
- 4 min
Teaching With Big Sonia: Everyday Magic, Day 957
The tagline for the film Big Sonia is “Holocaust survivor. Grandma. Diva.” True that, but she’s also quite the Holocaust scholar, fluent...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Jun 29, 2019
- 2 min
Nine Reasons to Give a Little (or a Lot): Everyday Magic, Day 978
As many of you know, I’m leaping from my day job of college-level teaching to creating more transformative writing, community-building...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Surprises From 2018: Everyday Magic, Day 960
In reading Kate Bowler’s evocative essay, “How Cancer Changes Hope” and revising poems for my next book, How Times Moves, I’ve been...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Apr 15, 2018
- 3 min
Moses, Meet Miriam: Everyday Magic, Day 936
We stopped at Crystal Bridges Friday night about 7:30 p.m., figuring it was closed but wanting to scope out the place. It was open until...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 27, 2018
- 2 min
Finding Miriam in a Semi in an Alley on a Rainy Day: Everyday Magic, Day 934
Our long gravel drive was puddled and muddy, so there was no way the huge semi carrying my new book, Miriam's Well: A Modern Day Exodus,...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Nov 30, 2017
- 3 min
Hawking Books Wherever the Wind (and Car) Take Me: Everyday Magic, Day 919
I’ve learned over the years that it’s never a mistake to drive around with a bookstore in a rolling suitcase just in case, and that’s...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 27, 2014
- 2 min
Finishing the Last Poem for Chasing Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 794
As a poet, I’m not used to writing a body of poems on deadline although there have been plenty of times I’m pushing and praying through a...


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...


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...


Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Feb 7, 2008
- 4 min
Failing
It happened again.Yesterday, the long-awaited email arrived from the agent reading my revised (as per her suggestions) novel. In short,...