by Rachel | Aug 16, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Writing for Business
The screen door snaps against my arm, I stumble on the welcome mat, and the fresh coffee I carry splatters…all over my T-shirt, jeans, fur(fake!)-lined slippers, the deck, even the plants. All of it. That’s how my day starts. I’m PISSED! I decide I...
by Rachel | Jul 1, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Writing for Business
Two silk shirts — one fiery red, the other dove grey with psychedelic blossoms edged in peach piping — gone. WTF? Last I saw them, they were laid out on a chair on the deck to make room for the cleaning lady. But the cleaning lady didn’t come....
by Rachel | Jun 24, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Writing for Business
“It all started three years ago when I bought the angel,” says Toby. “The sculpted angel with wings that swept down to the floor.” I listen, rapt. I am in Savannah, Georgia, at the childhood home of author Flannery O’Connor —...
by Rachel | May 25, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Writing for Business
“Ma?” I knocked on my mother’s bedroom door. It was late afternoon in the early 70s. We lived in a cheap pre-fab duplex. My mother drank. We used food stamps for groceries. I was ashamed. But I was always ambitious. Even at 11. I worried my character...
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