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Vacation Fighting, Getting Lose & Getting Found: Everyday Magic, Day 684
“That’s not the way we roll,” Ken replied, making me laugh so hard I cried as I high-fived him. Vacation fighting, one of my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 17, 20133 min read
A New Place, An Old City & Some Sweet Rewards in Tennessee: Everyday Magic, Day 683
This evening, we wandered downtown Knoxville, home to our son Daniel, but a brand new city to me. I was instantly enamored with the old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 14, 20131 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20133 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20132 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20132 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20121 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20122 min read
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,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 2, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 16, 20121 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20122 min read
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,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 25, 20123 min read
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),...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 13, 20122 min read
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 11, 20122 min read
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
Sep 1, 20122 min read
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....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 27, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 24, 20121 min read
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....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 11, 20122 min read
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...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 5, 20121 min read
