by Jamie Cattanach | Jan 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was a Wednesday and I was hungover. Inebriating festivities have been taking place most every day now that I’m up here in St. Augustine, catching up with friends and trying to find ways to put up with family — an exercise that’s always trying, but whose irritations...
by Jamie Cattanach | Dec 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s taken me a long time to get comfortable with my body, and almost as long to get comfortable writing about the fact that I am. Actually, I’m lying. I’m still not comfortable writing this. And I’m only comfortable with my body sometimes. On Shrinking Short version...
by Jamie Cattanach | Nov 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, a really cool thing happened to me: I became a published poet. I also spent my Black Friday inside the above photo. Just saying. I’m thrilled to have my strange little poem, “Old Light,” featured in the Fall 2015 issue of DMQ Review. Go check it out. As for...
by Jamie Cattanach | Nov 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hi. It’s been kind of quiet around here. Maybe you’ve noticed (I didn’t even write a post about the 2015 Beaujolais Nouveau!); probably you didn’t. Either way, it’s been because the rest of my life has been pretty loud lately, in a lot of amazing ways. In short, stuff...
by Jamie Cattanach | Nov 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
My neighbor is a kind and beautiful girl with whom I have much in common. Someone I’d call open-hearted. Someone with a really cute dog (whose name, I won’t lie, I remembered well before the girl’s). We both drive Jeeps, we both have tattoos, we both have history...
by Jamie Cattanach | Nov 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hi, person reading this post. I’m going to imagine you as I was about a year ago: bundled in bed at 2 a.m. with classes in the morning, Googling my way into oblivion as I desperately fantasized about quitting graduate school. If that’s you, I’m sorry. And I hope this...
