As promised, a livestream cometh!
This Thursday the 28th at 7pm EST, I'll be speaking–live!– to my longterm book agent Anna Sproul-Latimer, who founded her own agency, N...
2024-03-25 14:12:36 +0000 UTC View Post
"If you give a mouse a cookie he will ask for a glass of milk," as the classic children's book teaches us. Well, if you give a Caitlin a sabbatical, she will discover that her longtime interest in ...
2024-03-21 14:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post
She's back, baby! And crankier than ever!
Does putting out this new video (for the second month in a row!) mean my sabbatical is truly over? Someone (me, in this case) can't be working ...
2024-02-29 16:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Well folks, she made a video.
What this video IS:
1- A topic I'm completely fascinated by– why morgue managers at prestigious medical schools seem to think they can get away with SELL...
2024-01-19 15:33:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Dearest Deathlings,
In last month's letter I revealed that, in defiance of my sabbatical, I was back to working. Such willfulness Caitlin doth display, such hubris!
As I have since lear...
2023-12-22 19:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I walked into my fine local purveyor of lattes this morning and the barista asked "how's the sabbatical going?"
I give him a sort of glazed donut thousand yard stare. "Well, it's sort o...
2023-11-16 20:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there groovy ghouls and goblins,
It's me, reporting live from fall in Upstate New York. *Clinks goblets of pumpkin spice latte* Leaf peeping every weekend, hygge-haters can't stop me.
... 2023-10-26 15:54:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok listen folks, are you listening? Just let me speak, ok? Just.... alright. I know I'm supposed to be on sabbatical. I KNOW! Don't you think I know? It's just...you have to understand. Somet...
2023-09-20 19:19:43 +0000 UTC View PostFellow Deathlings,
It is I, Ericka, Caitlin’s colleague and intrepid reporter. For this month’s ...
2023-08-29 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my angels of death,
My parents an I watch a show on the History channel called Alone. If you haven't heard of it, imagine Survivor without the games, alliances, or con...
2023-07-29 19:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostMorning chickadees,
It is I, sabbatical Caitlin. Hear my plaintive cry echoing from the bottom of the sabbatical well. Splish splash I am taking a bath--- in the cool waters of non-work.
<... 2023-06-28 16:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello deathlings,
I am excited– yes, excited– to announce that I will be taking a sabbatical. I use the word excited because I mean it. I'm genuinely filled with hope for what the coming ...
2023-05-25 15:02:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here I am folks, Googling inspirational quotes about how love comes with risk.
Examples (imagine these on backdrops of sand, mountains, clasped hands, false attributions to Abraham Linc...
2023-04-20 18:48:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon my sweet poodles,
It is I, Caitlin.
There is a new YouTube main channel documentary making its way into the world in the next few weeks– but I couldn't...
2023-03-30 16:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Why do I keep returning to whale ships from Nantucket as a source of inspiration?
Knowing me (as many of you do) there are the whales themselves–large, scary. Then t...
2023-02-23 18:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
Human composting is legal in the state of New York!
[DISCO BALL DESCENDS, BEAT DROPS, CONFETTI CANNON FIRES -- ALL THE DEATHLINGS IN THE HOUSE SAY "Heeeeeeeeey!"...
2023-01-25 22:50:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
You read that right. It's a My Girl watch-fest: on the main channel, I watch & react to t...
2023-01-06 16:13:27 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year Deathlings!
We're releasing a NEW VIDEO tomorrow*, our first of 2023, and I wanted drop by and give you all a little CLUE about it.
See that bee up there? That's yo...
2023-01-05 18:38:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings,
'Tis the season! Therefore I'm dragging my somehow both desiccated and phlegmy carcass out of bed and propping it up in front of the camera.
OK, it'...
2022-12-19 20:28:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings,
I hope December is being kind to you. Among other things, I've been lurking around furniture stores looking for lovely, one-of-a-kind pieces that say, "Good tiding...
2022-12-06 20:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings!
I hope your week has been one of rest, nourishment, and warm beverages. I'm chasing my usual coffee with an artisanal spiced apple cider thing – I'm really going...
2022-11-25 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Well I have a certain Christmas tune stuck in my head right now.
I challenge you to watch to the very end of the video and not be humming it through New Ye...
2022-11-11 18:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
It's that time of the year again: the leaves fall, everything from our lattes to our car's wiper fluid is pumpkin spiced, and merch goes on sale.
Oh what's...
2022-11-09 20:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings Returning and New,
Well here I am beginning another post with, IT'S BEEN A WEEK.
But unlike last week when a nap and a puppy seemed like the only things...
2022-10-20 20:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
I'll keep this brief, mainly because I'm more eloquent in the video than I feel like I can be right now and also because your mortician is TIRED. Not like "tired of ma...
2022-10-14 16:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings!
We have such a big video for you today. I feel like I've been talking around this video for months – not wanting to spoil it, not wanting to let the cat out o...
2022-09-23 17:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
Come hang out with me on Wednesday, September 28th at 6pm EST! Via livestream, I'll be talking about all the things that went into making the BIG vide...
2022-09-21 22:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
I really do love that this video is like Ask a Mortician All-Stars. Few things warm my cold, dead, cynical heart like being able to collaborate with a team of thoughtf...
2022-08-12 16:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Who doesn't love mom texts. Texts from any parent or ELDER, really.
Sometimes my mom texts me random goings on from home, like DID YOU KNOW KELLY FROM 3RD GRADE ...
2022-08-05 18:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings,
I realize we have common interests and the mere fact that you're here reading this already sort of answers this question, but I'm curious: when you travel, whether...
2022-07-23 16:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post