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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
Jan 27, 20132 min read
Needle in the Bone Book Launch: Everyday Magic, Day 660
All day leading up to the event was a combination of all-okay and all-not-okay because, as Jarek said during the launch, “This is also...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 16, 20123 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
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
The Dog Days of Summer Are Barking Loud & Early: Everyday Magic, Day 590
When I first moved to Kansas, people told me that the weather — especially the summers — build character. But the way this weather builds...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 25, 20121 min read
After Passover Passes Over: Everyday Magic, Day 532
The morning after Passover blanketed itself in sleep, gray sky and rain. Luckily, after moving inside to sleep about 2 a.m. when it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 8, 20121 min read
In Love With Vermont & Homesick For Kansas: The Folly & Wonder of Being Multi-Placial: Eve
It’s no wonder that I’ve had several conversations with students and friends lately about being multi-placial, that is, being someone...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 19, 20122 min read
Quirks of Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 493
When I travel Kansas, or anywhere for that matter, I look for the quirks: the whimsical, unexpected turns of land, art, people that show...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 6, 20122 min read
A Perfect Spring Day in January: Everyday Magic, Day 476
When I discovered the top song the day I was born was Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife,” I knew it was going to be a great day, one that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 5, 20122 min read
How Many Poets Does It Take To Go to the End of the World, Begin Again, and Spring Poetry on Strange
Evidently, it takes 8 poets, which is what we had for our Southwest Kansas Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems caravan, which took us across...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 21, 20114 min read
Kansas: Size DOES Matter: Everyday Magic, Day 444
Tomorrow I drive a van load of poets about 400 miles to Southwestern Kansas for more of the Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems tour. I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 17, 20111 min read
Into the Woods and Back Out Again: Everyday Magic, Day 441
Every year, we go into the woods at Shantivanam in Easten, Kansas for a little retreat. We usually go in overlapping shifts, me hauling...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20111 min read
Winter’s Back in Town, Baby!: Everyday Magic, Day 435
As my friend and good writer Cheryl Unruh wrote, “The warmth that has lingered in September and October gave Kansans a second chance at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20112 min read
From Kansas to Peru with Love: Installment #2
Ken Lassman (occupational therapist, writer and wheelchair clinic director, and my husband) guest-blogs about his experiences working...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20113 min read
Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas Marches With the Zombies: Everyday Magic, Day 421
Our friends Rachel & Jonathan out for an autumnal stroll “Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20112 min read
Raising Money From My Own Front Porch: Everyday Magic, Day 417
Always loved to be on the road even if it was just bumper cars at Coney Island As many of you know, it’s been a long and dark road for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 27, 20112 min read
Sleeping Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 410
I went out there because I didn’t want to miss sleeping outside before it gets cold although, given the summer we had, it’s still hard to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 13, 20111 min read
In Praise of Mexican Food: Everyday Magic, Day 390
I was right about my lifelong relationship with Mexican food. When I get home from Vermont, where really good Mexican food is scarce (at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 18, 20112 min read
News of My Demise Is Greatly Exagerated: Everyday Magic, Day 389
Well, I’m still poet laureate, and as I’ve written before, I still plan to finish my term, which ends next July, and to pass on this post...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20112 min read
Flower Bed of Death: Everyday Magic, Day 388
I start the garden each March with the best of intentions, but I’ve learned to accept that come July sometime, I will abandon all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20111 min read
