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Shaking up Salt

A school that has quietly drawn to Portland, trained, and set loose around Maine a large number of journalists and other young creative professionals is entering a new phase, and not a decade too soon.
Press releases
By JEFF INGLIS | July 01, 2011

Reaching a new frontier

Shetterly's new memoir, Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home is the story of hardships — financial, familial, emotional — not usually the stuff that inspires switching places.
Book of the times
By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 11, 2011

Bramhall Square (Portland dating column)

Somebody once said something about how the best things in life are worth waiting for. I’d love to know who that was. I hate waiting. As Dan Bern says, “like even for a bus or somethin’.” Yet it seems to be the name of my game.
Waiting game
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | October 27, 2008

Our championship season

This year’s New England Press Association annual awards dinner forsook the Park Plaza’s rubber chicken for the upper-scale poultry fare at the Marriott Copley Place. And the food’s not the only reason we’re glad we went.
Brilliant us
By CLIF GARBODEN | February 13, 2008

Three firsts at NEPA

Portland Phoenix contributing writers and staff took three first-place awards at the New England Press Association’s annual awards banquet February 9, and three second-place honors as well.
Laurels
By JEFF INGLIS | February 13, 2008

Mrs.

Reader, I married Cowboy.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | September 05, 2007

Get ready, get set...

That’s just some male fantasy about virginity. It’s totally archaic.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | August 15, 2007

Against the current

I’ve come to marriage like a fish beating against a tidal stream.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | August 01, 2007

A doctor’s voice on MaineCare

By SAM PFEIFLE | July 25, 2007

Political perspective

The United States spends 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on healthcare every year, which breaks down to $2 trillion (or $6700 per person per year).

By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | July 25, 2007

What’s wrong with healthcare in Maine?

When it comes to individuals’ health, the numbers don’t tell the whole story.
Just about everything. A “poor” woman and a “middle-class” man tell you why
By JEFF INGLIS, SAM PFEIFLE, AND CAITLIN SHETTERLY | July 25, 2007

Wedding march

Bridezillas, anyone?
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | July 18, 2007

Bright lights, dim futures

In a little over a month I will be standing under what I hope will be clear skies as I say my vows and complete a year’s journey to marriage.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | July 02, 2007

Tragic correspondence

Staged before a machine-gunshot-spangled American flag, Letters to the NRA has some strong messages for the nation’s purveyors of gun-lust.
Winter Harbor's Letters to the NRA
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | June 20, 2007

Guns and gloves

I want a gun to protect my dog. I know it sounds crazy, against my politics, nuts.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | June 20, 2007

Dog day wedding

I’ve fallen totally uncontrollably in love with my dog.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | June 06, 2007

Anesthesia talks

This must, in all its dreariness of everyday life trials, be love.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | May 23, 2007

Ships at a distance

According to my friend T, women, in particular, come to relationships with credit scores low enough to sink 1000 ships.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | May 09, 2007

Temporary darkness

In this world of competing energies and lights, we can forget that the most rewarding things are the simplest.
Bramhall square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | April 25, 2007

Dancing queen

Cowboy says I can’t dance.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | April 11, 2007

Couple-a friends

In my last relationship no one wanted to hang out with us.
Bramhall square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | March 28, 2007

Vessels + dresses

I bought the dress.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | March 14, 2007

My Trainer, Myself

I’m supposed to meet with my trainer today and I’m looking for ways to get out of it.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | February 28, 2007

Letters to the Portland editor: February 23, 2007

I was dismayed by the comments of Melissa White, marketing coordinator for Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association, who disparaged the efforts of Whole Foods to fill their store with local produce.
Good effort, Whole Foods
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | February 21, 2007

Cinderella

Finding the perfect wedding dress is a little bit like imagining yourself as Cinderella.
Bramhall square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | February 14, 2007

Letters to the Portland editor: February 16, 2007

So appreciative!
Haiku gratitude
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | February 14, 2007

Like blood for chocolate

If you told me a year ago that I would be back on the birth-control pill, I would have said no way.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | January 31, 2007

Nighty-night

It’s 1 am and Cowboy wants to go to sleep but I’ve still got the light on and the new In Style Weddings in my hands and I’m starting to freak about all the things I should have done already as per the In Style in my hand.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | January 17, 2007

Mainers lead coverage in Mexico and Minnesota

It might be a bit early to plan your spring break, but whether you head for the snowdrifts of the Great Lakes states or the sun of coastal Mexico, Mainers are already there, set to help you figure out how best to spend your time.
Media watch
By JEFF INGLIS | January 11, 2007

Marry me

There are many approaches to wedding planning.
Bramhall Square
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | January 03, 2007

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