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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 28, 20112 min read
When Iowa is Heaven: Everyday Magic, Day 282
Iowa has a rap for being heaven just like Kansas is forever wed to The Wizard of Oz (as the opposite of Oz). Although I traveled Iowa a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 24, 20112 min read
Travel and Non-Ordinary Reality: Every Magic, Days 276-277
Yes, Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City actually had a section called "Non-Ordinary Reality." While it mostly had books about...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 20, 20112 min read
Living in the Pink Room of the In-Between: Everyday Magic, Day 273
In between home and where I'm going, I have landed in a very pink room where a suspiciously calm (but sneaky-eyed) Victorian girl stares...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 7, 20111 min read
Driving Nowhere In The Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 260
When I say I drove nowhere in the dark last night, I'm not talking metaphorically, or at least not just. I got in the car, thinking I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 6, 20111 min read
Homesickness & The Squeaky Swing Bird: Everyday Magic, Day 259
Back to my room mid-morning after a wonderful meeting with students, I lay on the bed, trying to power-nap myself back to full...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20112 min read
I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore, Toto….Or Are We?: Everyday Magic, Day 253
The call came at 4 p.m. yesterday: would I jump on a plane today and come back to Vermont to teach in Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 13, 20101 min read
West Into Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 147
I was on my way to give a talk on Jubilee — what we release and learn from, embrace and start fresh and alive with, beginners all of us...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 4, 20101 min read
Landing: Everyday Magic, Days 108-110
Now I’m home, the cat asleep on my lap (a compromise to keep her from sleeping across the computer keys, all an obvious ploy to say: love...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 1, 20101 min read
Why I Love New York: Everyday Magic, Day 107
One massively big window in a small room at our marvelously imaginative, clean, creative and location-location-location digs, Chelsea...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 30, 20101 min read
Why I Love Brooklyn: Everyday Magic, Days 104-105
There are so many reasons, but here are some: The smell of the french fries at Nathan’s hot dogs. Not just a tree but thousands of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 28, 20101 min read
On the Edge Of Sickness and the City: Everyday Magic, Day 103
Tomorrow we leave the house at 4 a.m. to fly to New York to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Months of planning and dreaming about walking...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 3, 20101 min read
The Chaotic Magic of Travel & Miss Mary Mack: Everyday Magic, Day 21
Sitting at JFK in New York between flights, and between crowds of the incoming and outgoing, the new-to-here and the barely-anywhere, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 18, 20083 min read
9 Hours in New York, 12 Miles, 5 Trains & One Garden
Why do I do this? Well, for any of you who have walked in New York, you already know the answer. The energy for walking there is...
