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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20132 min read
A Diner Outside the Time-Space Continuum: Everyday Magic, Day 674
Coming home from the renga reading in Kansas City, we were a wee bit hungry, so we aimed ourselves toward a hole in the wall diner in...
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
Jan 10, 20132 min read
The Mystery of Lost Things Returning (or Not): Everyday Magic, Day 669
During the holiday influx of people, chocolate, more people, extra caffeine, lots of aspirin, occasional gifts and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 20131 min read
The Quiet In Between: Everday Magic, Day 667
Although it’s mid-morning, it could be the middle of the night here. The dogs sleep (thankfully for Shay, who spent hours pacing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20121 min read
In Praise of a 27-Year-Old Food Processor: Everyday Magic, Day 663
We received the food processor as a mega gift from five friends, who chipped in to buy it for us as a wedding gift. Back in 1985, such...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 1, 20121 min read
Killing Time at the Airport: Everyday Magic, Day 653
Usually, when I click on the link to add a new post, I have that post pretty much outlined in my mind. Not today though as I wait at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 27, 20122 min read
I Get All My News From Facebook Too: Everyday Magic, Day 652
O The wonderful, local writer Jennifer Lawler shares her 14th installment of “How a Book is Born” The ghost of Christmas Future Perfect...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20122 min read
Life as a Gift, Not a Right: Happy Thanksgiving: Everyday Magic, Day 650
This scene takes place in The Exotic Marigold Hotel, a movie I saw multiple times to escape the heat of Kansas this summer. As the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 15, 20123 min read
Goodbye, Milton’s! I Loved You at First Bite: Everyday Magic, Day 647
Goodbye, dear French toast! I remember the first day I shlepped my computer to Milton’s Restaurant. Like many of the Java Dive regulars —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20122 min read
Here’s to All Those Voting for the First Time: Everyday Magic, Day 644
Growing up I was taught that if there is injustice in the world that it was my duty as a Jew to do whatever I could to make it right. I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20121 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
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
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 25, 20121 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 10, 20122 min read
The Miracle of Here to There: Everyday Magic, Day 608
In between were hours, crowds, hot flashes, moving sidewalks, and rushes toward food courts that seemed too rushed only to rush two other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 4, 20121 min read
Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607
The air is warm and damp (mid-80s and humid) as opposed to dry and hot (like the 109 predicted for Kansas today). The rain comes often....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 24, 20122 min read
Some Thoughts on Aging (and a Shout-Out to My Little Sister on Her 40th Birthday): Everyday Magic, D
Being well past 40, and actually immersing myself big-time in the 50s now, what I’ve realized is how much better life gets (or can get)...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 19, 20122 min read
So I’m Still Poet Laureate of Kansas: Occupying Poetry: Everyday Magic, Day 601
I’m proud to be Kansas’ third poet laureate, following in the good work and writing of Denise Low and Jonathan Holden. Although I’m...
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 9, 20122 min read
I (Really) Like Rocks: Everyday Magic, Day 596
Miyako the cat checks out the stash of rocks I brought home Why do I love rocks so much? I’m not sure, but they’ve always been the apple...
