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fresh start

Slips: A Note on 4 Years Sober

It’s all beginnings and endings and sparkle and shadows around here.

by Caitie Leibman December 1, 2025December 2, 2025

memoir

Back to the Beginning

What do you do with the short straw?

by Caitie Leibman August 11, 2025August 11, 2025

memoir

Nebraska Triptych

Painted walls, a humid summer, and then a fridge floats by.

by Caitie Leibman August 4, 2025July 31, 2025

memoir

Time Travel

In the sour mess, we are in touch with it.

by Caitie Leibman May 26, 2025May 21, 2025

memoir

Vitamins

Dirty nailbeds and playing outside.

by Caitie Leibman May 19, 2025May 19, 2025

writing on writing

The diaries wanted to be encased in Jell-O. They wanted to be sliced up and turned into paper chains, so they could wrap themselves around a banister for an entire holiday season. They never wanted to stay flat. They wanted to do something else, be something else, before I threw them away in my 20s. …

by Caitie Leibman May 12, 2025May 10, 2025