writer • designer • misfit • strategist • creative • sense maker •

Cait Vlastakis Smith 1/26/18 Cait Vlastakis Smith 1/26/18

Stories that stick

I first saw the short film Dark Side of the Lens years ago, but it keeps coming back to me.

Cait Vlastakis Smith 11/15/17 Cait Vlastakis Smith 11/15/17

I am not a perfectionist. No, I am the most chill person you will ever meet.

Cait Vlastakis Smith 11/4/17 Cait Vlastakis Smith 11/4/17

What do a geneticist and war photographer have in common? More than you may think.

Cait Vlastakis Smith 12/6/16 Cait Vlastakis Smith 12/6/16

"Some people think I’m demonic and totally insane. Some people get it."

Cait Vlastakis Smith 4/26/16 Cait Vlastakis Smith 4/26/16

My sister is alive and healthy.

Cait Vlastakis Smith 3/30/16 Cait Vlastakis Smith 3/30/16

The process of creating is full of pain. Fruitless drafts. Diluted ideas. Self-doubt and worthlessness. Candy wrappers everywhere.

Cait Vlastakis Smith 1/16/16 Cait Vlastakis Smith 1/16/16

You know it. I know it. We all know it. The biggest thing standing in our way is us.

Cait Vlastakis Smith 6/3/15 Cait Vlastakis Smith 6/3/15

The empty baby book patronized me from the bookshelf. As if there wasn't enough to do keeping this micro-human alive and our sanity in check.

Cait Vlastakis Smith 12/2/13 Cait Vlastakis Smith 12/2/13

Look at the shape of a rock. Pick it up and feel it with your fingers. Is it jagged? Round? Smooth enough to skip across a lake?

Cait Vlastakis Smith 9/19/13 Cait Vlastakis Smith 9/19/13

What did we learn from 2008? What does mowing the lawn have to do with it?