This is what I look like. Correction: this is an image I chose to show you. It is unedited. It is carefully angled to me make me look...

Let’s catch up, if you’re new here: My name is… the name of this website. I go by “Caitlin”, never “Catie.” I’ll be 34 next month, live...

Life is different now. I hesitate to say how. I will say I was hospitalized in June for 8 days. 8 slippery bananas on the Mario cart...

Question: What is there to LOVE and lose myself in other than writing, which is ultimately an extension of myself and my interpretations...

I haven't written here in a month which is a little sad (for me.) This is supposed to be my little island of happy nothings to revisit at...

*Wipes off small layer of dust* So, what's new that's worth reporting? What's new that I can RESPONSIBLY report? (note to self -...

"No one can tell what I lack." That's the title of a chapter in one of my favorite books, Red Comet by Heather Clark. The first time I...

“Is this it?” - A disillusioned golfer who was quoted during the sermon in the Christmas Eve service I attended after he won the Masters...

Last Friday (12/1) was beautiful and a little surreal. The magazine I got published in hit Barnes and Noble shelves and 5 of my coworkers...

Thanksgiving/ most of 2023 vibes: I stopped caring about “my impact” for a long time. Survival mode dims dreaming. Perhaps I became...

My god, I still can't believe that words I'm about to type are factual - I'm getting published. In a print magazine sold at Barnes and...

Another night reporting LIVE (when I should asleep!) from my dark, cluttered room - Mostly cluttered with books. So that part could be...

The comments I have gotten from other people are like pebbles I have collected all my life. I pull them out and examine them...

My toilet keeps making odd noises at random intervals. It's not leaking. I don't know what to make of this, but I'm sure a plumber will....

PURELY beautiful things are starting to bore me. I’m not interested in their safe, soft, and shiny stories or images. Their daintiness....

10:24pm. I started and abandoned a couple of books and movies today. I'm not sure what I even did. Flitted about from one unfinished...

Back to work in 10 something hours. I just watched a YouTube clip of the Challenger Spaceshuttle disaster's "original live footage". I...

My back hurts from sleeping on the couch the past 2 nights. I had to pack up a bunch of stuff (long story) and temporarily store it in my...

It has been awhile since I've visited here. Sitting on my big couch in ratty (but clean) pajama shorts. Heard what sounded like 2...