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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 6, 20243 min read
"I'm Trying Not To Be Such a Maniac": Everyday Magic, Day 1,016
That's what I say to my friend Joy on the phone while we each surveyed our overflowing calendars for open spaces to meet. Over the last...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20243 min read
I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096
Truly, and usually with steaming oatmeal and iced tea when I'm half awake. Perhaps I should eat the rejections with a chocolate amaretto...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20244 min read
Living in a City of Writers at a Humongous Convention Center: Everyday Magic, Day 1093
The elevator door opened on the 16th floor of the Marriott, where I was staying, and there they were: a scraggly bunch, some in oversized...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Welcome (Back) to the Everyday Magic Blog
Dear everyone, I'm writing to you because my hunch is you were among the 2,000+ subscribers to my Everyday Magic blog. It's a hunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20233 min read
A Sound Bath in Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Everyday Magic, Day 1086
I start out walking through cicadas, thousands, millions, maybe billions of them — this is Arkansas so it’s hard to know — a tunnel of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20202 min read
Writing With Wildlife: Everyday Magic, Day 1013
I just returned from writing poetry on the porch at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow to write poetry on the porch of our place. Being...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 2, 20203 min read
My Life Has Gone to the Dogs: Everyday Magic, Day 998
“It’s like an animal daycare here,” said my friend Laurie, here to give Shay some doggy acupuncture today. She was right, and with two...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 29, 20192 min read
Nine Reasons to Give a Little (or a Lot): Everyday Magic, Day 978
As many of you know, I’m leaping from my day job of college-level teaching to creating more transformative writing, community-building...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 20, 20182 min read
Lightening Up for the Solstice: Everyday Magic, Day 959
Tomorrow the world turns over: our shortening days stop in their tracks, and the light begins lengthening those days for months to come....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 3, 20182 min read
The Hospitality of Writing: Everyday Magic, Day 951
Sitting outside and writing at home feeds my soul. This led me to develop “A Leap Forward Writing Retreat” for Nov., 3, a day I welcome...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Working Hard on Not Working (So) Hard: Everyday Magic, Day 937
For a good many years, I’ve been working hard at not working so hard, not just in April but in other months prone to get over-laden with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 10, 20182 min read
Making Stuff Up From Mrs. Potato Head to Eat the Earth: Everyday Magic, Day 928
What to call a fictional women’s collective running a potato farm in Moab, Utah in my novel Miriam’s Well? What else but “Mrs. Potato...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 3, 20182 min read
A Bright, Beautiful Day and Why I Blog: Everyday Magic, Day 923
I started and persist for two reasons: to build more of an audience for my books, workshops, and other freelancing curves of work, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 30, 20173 min read
Hawking Books Wherever the Wind (and Car) Take Me: Everyday Magic, Day 919
I’ve learned over the years that it’s never a mistake to drive around with a bookstore in a rolling suitcase just in case, and that’s...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 18, 20173 min read
When Miriam Finishes Wandering the Desert: Everyday Magic, Day 911
Late last night, as I sent my novel Miriam’s Well to my wonderful publisher, Steve Semken of Ice Cube Press, I reworked a summary of this...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20173 min read
Please Help Me Find Cover Art For Miriam's Well, My New Novel: Everyday Magic, Day 900
Miriam’s Well Synopsis From a young age Miriam sees visions she can’t cope with or stop. Growing up Jewish in Brooklyn with Aaron, her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 1, 20154 min read
Teaching Writing for the Love of It: Everyday Magic, Day 841
Tom McAfee years before I met him Believe me, I wasn’t a good poet when I studied creative writing as an undergraduate. I don’t say this...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 21, 20142 min read
Where Am I Now?: Everyday Magic, Day 800
My initial plan was to write everyday, which I did for a long time. The practice helped me aim my perception toward something to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 27, 20132 min read
Getting Rid of Books: Everyday Magic, Day 754
Bon Voyage, old friends! It was time. Actually, past time. For years, I’ve looked at whole shelves — some ten feet long — stuffed with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 3, 20131 min read
Spray-Painting a Bunch of Stuff: Everyday Magic, Day 707
Today gave me three opportunities to wield some spray paint colors, namely bright blue, grape purple and deep green, while aiming at a...
