by Jamie Cattanach | Jul 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I arrived in Santa Fe last year, it was apricot season. It seemed as though the trees lined every single street, the fruit ripe enough to fall to the ground in sunset-orange smatters. In Taos, and a store owner offered me a whole box of them: he couldn’t...
by Jamie Cattanach | Jun 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
My 29th birthday was a pretty bad day. I’d only been in Santa Fe for a couple of months, and I work from home — so my pool of local friends was pretty shallow. The one person I’d had been hanging out with the most was out of town for the weekend, so...
by Jamie Cattanach | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Maybe it was finally quitting my frenetic life of globetrotting, or the early fruition of 30’s promised metabolic slowdown. Maybe it was plain old winter, the Santa Fe chill covering me over and turning my bed into an icebox. Maybe it was — okay, part of...
by Jamie Cattanach | Feb 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I live in this place with its piñon and juniper, its low, sagebrush scent persisting even through the snow — its tap water tooth-hurtingly cold come winter, the air so dry it’ll peel your skin clean off. It puts tubes of hand lotion in my bathroom, my car,...
by Jamie Cattanach | Feb 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
As some of you may already be aware, I’m pretty big on New Year’s resolutions. Since 2018 was Dry January year, I needed some other dopamine drip to rip out of my life this time around. Taking an honest look at my life, at what most made me twitch, I had...
by Jamie Cattanach | Oct 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
I know it’s only just falling, and I know, too, that I’ll likely be singing a different tune in a matter of weeks. But so far, I have to say: winter is, in many ways, a comfort. This Sunday has me sitting here in my pajamas watching the drear through my...
