Tag: memoir

• Shapes, a List: Day 3

  

  A punctuation mark and a bullet wound can take the same shape.

  Caitie Leibman

  January 3, 2026

  writing prompt

  exercise, memoir, writing practice

• Slips: A Note on 4 Years Sober

  

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

  Caitie Leibman

  December 1, 2025

  fresh start, memoir

  memoir, nature, seasons and cycles, sobriety

• Time Travel

  

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

  Caitie Leibman

  May 26, 2025

  memoir

  family, memoir, memories, mental health, reflection, seasons

• Vitamins

  

  Dirty nailbeds and playing outside.

  Caitie Leibman

  May 19, 2025

  memoir

  memoir, memory, mindfulness, outdoors, reflection, seasons and cycles

• Curating

  

  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. …

  Caitie Leibman

  May 12, 2025

  writing on writing

  journaling, memoir, reflection, writing practice

• Dust

  

  The clock sprung forward and out of my hands.

  Caitie Leibman

  March 17, 2025

  memoir, writing on writing

  memoir, seasons and cycles, time, writing practice

• Doors

  

  Space, not time, pulls a trick on me.

  Caitie Leibman

  February 24, 2025

  memoir

  change, memoir, parenting, reflection, seasons and cycles

• Iconoclasm

  

  There’s something of style and the soul caught up here.

  Caitie Leibman

  January 13, 2025

  memoir

  family, history, memoir, nonfiction, reflection, religion, seasons and cycles, spirituality

• Between the Notes

  

  After many minutes I couldn’t grab onto the sound inside the music.

  Caitie Leibman

  December 30, 2024

  memoir

  holidays, memoir, reflection, seasons and cycles, writing practice

• None of This Is News

  

  The week I got an ADHD diagnosis, I closed the garage door on my car.

  Caitie Leibman

  November 11, 2024

  updates, writing on writing

  ADHD, diagnosis, labels, memoir, memory, mental health, mindfulness, therapy

• Arrows, Poets, and Things that Point

  

  The choices we make are only one choice.

  Caitie Leibman

  November 5, 2024

  invitations

  goals, jobs and career, memoir, mental health, mindfulness, poetry, reflection, seasons and cycles

• Big, Dumb Goals

  

  Just casually questioning my life and my choices in 700 words or less.

  Caitie Leibman

  October 18, 2024

  updates, writing on writing

  exercise, goals, good life halfsy, half marathon, intentions, journaling, memoir, mental health, mindfulness, plans and goals, reflection, writing practice

• No Obvious Cause

  

  On walking the aisles of the past.

  Caitie Leibman

  September 23, 2024

  invitations, writing on writing

  exercise, memoir, mental health, mindfulness, reflection, seasons and cycles, writing practice

• Yours and Mine

  

  Squint, and you can make me meet in the middle.

  Caitie Leibman

  September 9, 2024

  invitations

  family, family history, family stories, gifts, holidays, memoir, mental health, mindfulness, reflection, seasons and cycles

• What I Talk about When I Talk about Garage Sales

  

  It all has a cost, a weight.

  Caitie Leibman

  September 2, 2024

  invitations

  family, family stories, intentions, memoir, mental health, mindfulness, reflection, seasons and cycles, stories

• How It Ends

  

  We might not leave on our own terms.

  Caitie Leibman

  August 19, 2024

  writing on writing

  curiosity, experience, family, identity, jobs and career, meaning, memoir, memories, productivity, reflection, strengths, work life, writing, writing jobs

• August

  

  Milestones, anniversaries, and all time is relative.

  Caitie Leibman

  August 12, 2024

  fresh start

  childhood, depression, family, family history, joy, memoir, mental health, mindfulness, presence, reflection, school, seasons, seasons and cycles, therapy

• And Other Animal Tricks

  

  What do the jellies know?

  Caitie Leibman

  July 29, 2024

  updates

  acceptance, anxiety, compassion, emotions, family, grief, healing, memoir, memories, narrative, parenting, recovery, reflection

• It’s Not My Money

  

  An inheritance, a windfall, and going farther than you could imagine.

  Caitie Leibman

  July 15, 2024

  invitations

  abundance, acceptance, compassion, curiosity, emotions, family, family history, grief, healing, intentions, labels, memoir, memories, mindfulness, narrative, parenting, perspective, process, reflection, scarcity mentality, symbols

• Why, yes, I have lost weight.

  

  Just checking in.

  Caitie Leibman

  June 3, 2024

  fresh start, updates

  acceptance, compassion, emotions, exercise, family, good life halfsy, half-marathon, healing, lnk, memoir, memories, mental health, reflection, running, seasons and cycles, Sober Mom Squad, sobriety, stretchy November project, therapy, training, updates, walking

• Celebrating Me

  

  Bring on 35.

  Caitie Leibman

  January 10, 2024

  celebrations

  birthdays, capricorn, celebrations, family, family history, intentions, memoir, mental health, milestones, parties, perspective, seasons and cycles

• A Half-Marathon Update that’s Not about the Half-Marathon

  

  On my body’s journey, my brain and baggage are along for the ride!

  Caitie Leibman

  December 18, 2023

  updates

  acceptance, affirmations, compassion, exercise, family, good life halfsy, gratitude, half-marathon, healing, labels, lnk, memoir, memories, mental health, mindfulness, process, reflection, running, stretchy November project, therapy, training, updates

• RIP, Matthew Perry

  

  May his memory be a blessing.

  Caitie Leibman

  November 1, 2023

  fresh start, writing on writing

  memoir, mental health, seasons and cycles, sobriety, writing, writing on writing

• Just a Few Words Away

  

  Ever write just to scratch an itch?

  Caitie Leibman

  September 1, 2023

  fresh start, writing on writing

  memoir, mindfulness, Natalie Goldberg, seasons and cycles, Writing Down the Bones, writing practice

• Why I’m Glad I Write

  

  Some reflections for the graduates of 2023.

  Caitie Leibman

  May 1, 2023

  fresh start, writing on writing

  exercise, memoir, memories, mindfulness, reflection, seasons and cycles, writing practice

• Begin with the End in Mind?

  

  You are the author of life’s Mad Lib.

  Caitie Leibman

  January 9, 2023

  writing prompt

  intentions, journaling, memoir, strengths, writing practice, writing prompts

• My Favorite Two-Faced God

  

  His domain is delightful and timely.

  Caitie Leibman

  January 1, 2023

  fresh start

  memoir, mindfulness, mythology, reading, seasons and cycles, writing practice, writing prompts