Maggie Smith, MY THOUGHTS HAVE WINGS

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Maggie Smith, the New York Times bestselling author of the heartrending memoir YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, joins Zibby to discuss her beautifully lyrical and calming new picture book, MY THOUGHTS HAVE WINGS. Maggie reveals how challenging conversations with her children—during her divorce and the pandemic lockdown—prompted the creation of this book. She describes the bedtime rituals they developed to fight nighttime anxiety. She and Zibby delve into the challenges of parenting, reflecting on rituals, the power of positive thinking, and how they’ve helped their children with their worries.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books with Zivie. I'm the host, Zivie Owens. I am an author. My latest is blank,
0:11.9	pub date March 1st, a novel. I'm also a podcaster, obviously, a publisher, a bookstore owner,
0:17.8	and so much more. If you love books, you're in the right place. In fact, we call it
0:22.6	the Zivieverse, or really, the L.A. Times called it the Zippyverse, and we're going with it.
0:27.1	Go to Zivie Owens.com to learn more and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens.
0:33.8	Maggie Smith is the author of My Thoughts Have Wings. She's back on the podcast. After coming on to discuss
0:40.9	the New York Times bestselling titles, you could make this place beautiful. Goldenrod,
0:46.8	keep moving, good bones, and more. My Thoughts Have Wings is her debut picture book. She lives with
0:51.9	her children in Columbus, Ohio. Oh my gosh, I'm going to
0:55.3	Columbus, Ohio. On the Ziviverse Tour, I'm going to have to reach out to her. You can find her
0:59.7	online at maggie smithpoet.com. Welcome, Maggie. Thank you for coming back on Moms Don't
1:06.2	Have Time to Read Books to discuss my thoughts have wings, your beautiful new children's book which i adore and is
1:13.1	amazing oh i'm so glad to hear it thanks for having me back it's good to see you it's good to see you too
1:18.9	you are like preaching to the choir here with this book of the nighttime worries the daytime worries
1:23.3	the worries all the time i read this to my son and he was like oh you, you did that too. You had me think about, you know, drinking a strawberry freeze in Jamaica a night when I could have all sleep. And I'm like, yes, this is what you have to do. Oh, I love that. Yeah. I was like, okay, good. I'm on the right track here with Maggie. Or we're making the same mistakes, but I don't think we're making the same.
1:45.6	Yeah.
1:46.2	Or our kids are just all messed up.
1:47.6	I don't know.
1:48.8	Oh.
1:49.6	Let me back up.
1:50.4	Tell everybody about your children's book.
1:52.4	So, yeah, my thoughts have wings was, I mean, really inspired by two different conversations
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