by Rachel | Oct 30, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
“In Bora Bora, even the fish look like sperm.” The year is 2006. I travel to Tahiti with my writer friend — let us call her Beth — she to get a tattoo, me to find a sperm donor. Beth is shaken and sad, recovering from an abortion. She is...
by Rachel | Oct 6, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
“You’ve got a psychic fat suit.” The man — whose name might be George — nods to himself. Pleased. As if he’s caught a rare moth and nailed it to the specimen board. “You’re impossible to connect with.” We...
by Rachel | Sep 28, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
I’m sad. This feels shameful to write. Or stupid. Or daring — maybe not in a good way. Don’t write until you’re happy again. You don’t want to bum people out, says my brain. Eat some pistachio ice cream. Shout the lyrics to an...
by Rachel | Sep 15, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Writing for Business
So I stumble into the Skinny Kitty Tea Lounge around 8am after staying out all night the night before. Today is Sunday. That means yesterday was Saturday. I am at Burning Man, Unplugged…And I’ve Never Been Happier I am at Burning Man. It is the...
by Rachel | Sep 6, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Writing for Business
“Hey! Get off the Esplanade!” Right by my window, up pops a guy wearing goggles, a T-shirt, and a tutu — sans tights. Blue neon wrapped haywire around his torso. He raps his knuckles against my truck door. He’s coated in fine white dust. Like...
by Rachel | Aug 26, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Writing for Business
“Rachel, are we supposed to feel sorry for you?” Now substitute your name for mine. How’d you like to get a comment like that? Would it freak you out? This was printed in the Los Angeles Times Book Review in a scathing review of my first book, Go...
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