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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 9, 20132 min read
Quick Change Artist in a Parking Lot: Everyday Magic, Day 693
Never mind me, I’m just changing my clothes again in a parking lot, going from heels, pantyhose and a silky dress to yoga pants, t-shirt...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20131 min read
Playing It Forward: Everyday Magic, Day 682
We met the 29 wondrous souls who signed up in October for the first all-day session, saw them again for another day As for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 27, 20132 min read
What a Renga Can Do: Everyday Magic, Day 672
Hearing people read their sections aloud, I noticed all kinds of nuances and gestures in the language that I had missed when reading the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 13, 20122 min read
Three Books, Three Weeks, Oy Vey!: Everyday Magic, Day 658
For the last few months, I’ve opened many emails with proofs of this, that and the other to review, and strangely enough, often the same...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 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 2, 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
Nov 16, 20121 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
Oct 23, 20122 min read
Back to the Source in New Jersey: Everyday Magic, Day 639
Reunited after 30 years with Phil Brater, my mentor and dear friend who modeled for me what true witnessing, support and daring to love...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 13, 20122 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 11, 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 7, 20121 min read
My Dog Ate My Name & Other Adventures of Book Tour Life: Everyday Magic, Day 623
Some of us see our names in lights. For me, it's chalk, and even more miraculously, cookies. When I arrived at Blue Planet Cafe in Topeka...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 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
Aug 27, 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 23, 20122 min read
“So What Actually Happened?”: Confusing Confluences of Truth & Fiction in The Divor
One of my mother’s friends apologized to her for how I treated her as a teenager after reading The Divorce Girl. “It’s fiction,” my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20124 min read
A Day in the Life of the Book Biz: Everyday Magic, Day 605
People outside the book biz often have a notion that once the book comes out, your big work is done, but for most of us who write or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 15, 20122 min read
Finally Married My Book and Now On Honeymoon, or Thank-You, Lawrence, for the Best Book Launch of My
I know it’s ludicrous to experience a book launch as a marriage, but I couldn’t help the strange overflow from my subconscious, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20121 min read
The Books Are Here!: Everyday Magic, Day 597
Why the books were delivered to a tree rather than to our porch dates back to early spring when the UPS guy told us he wouldn’t go up our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20123 min read
Being a Writer Means Giving Your Brain Daily Adjustments: Everyday Magic, Day 588
24 hours ago, I was in a tizzy about the writing life: I had reached out to dozens of people through emails and calls to set up readings,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 8, 20122 min read
Friday Afternoon: Everyday Magic, Day 582
The hackberry tree’s leaves waver slower than the walnut’s while the cedar sways as if under water. The dog sleeps on the worn planks of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20123 min read
Pinneapple Power, Couger Blessing & Other Wonders of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 551
Friday, I landed home from the 7th annual Brave Voice: Writing & Singing for Your Life retreat that Kelley Hunt and I blessedly do...
