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A Jersey Girl Thinks About the Shore: Everyday Magic, Day 643
Long Beach Island When you grow up where I did, when the temperature or boredom rises, you head to the shore, 20-40 minutes away...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 1, 20122 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
Kansas Poet Laureate Program Finds New Home at Kansas Humanities Council: Everyday Magic, Day 640
I am thrilled to share great news: the Kansas Poet Laureate program has a new home: the Kansas Humanities Council. This is a perfect home...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20121 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
Oct 23, 20122 min read
Losing Weight to Gain More Life: Everyday Magic, Day 636
Mom and me before we started losing weight My doctor put his arm around me, looked into my eyes and said, “I’m going to be hard on you....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 13, 20122 min read
Almost Twilight, Almost Cold Front, Almost Debate Time: Everyday Magic, Day 630
I’ve been working on the porch all afternoon, the impossibly blue sky highlighting the wind-blown lit green of the leaves. The wind has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 3, 20122 min read
It Seemed Like Summer Would Never End (and I Don’t Mean That In a Good Way): Everyday Magic, D
Now we’re on the other end of summer, and although the drought set up house for the long term, signs of autumn abound. I’ve never felt so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 28, 20121 min read
A Wedding Shower, a Funeral, a Newborn, a Dying Friend & a Little Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 628
The Days of Awe have been more than awe-inspiring this year, thanks to a confluence of life’s essence. In the last week, we’ve poured our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 25, 20122 min read
Malchuyot: A Rosh Hashana Reflection on Surrender, Life’s Imagination and Who’s In Charg
1. King of Kings, or the Fire That Makes the Circle In traditional scripture about Malchuyot, we revisit God’s sovereignty in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 17, 20124 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
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 7, 20121 min read
I Listen to the Wind of My Soul: Everyday Magic, Day 622
Sitting on the back deck, the sun to my right and cottonwood to my left, I listen to the wind. I love this sound so much that I could not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 5, 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
“No Way of Dividing What’s Yours & Mine When Everything is Shining” & My
Juxtaposed with the news reports in my head of the Republican National Convention, recent polling on the election, the impossibility of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 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
Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 617
I’m sitting on the porch listening to KKFI’s women’s blues show in the rain. Nothing unusual except the word and reality of rain. I can’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 25, 20121 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
“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
Aug 23, 20122 min read
