by Rachel | Dec 17, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
The temperature in the room spikes at 105 degrees. There’s a young guy in a Speedo sitting on a terrycloth-covered throne on a raised dais, his muscled skin slick with perspiration even though he’s got a fan blowing on him. The rest of us are marinating in...
by Rachel | Dec 12, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
“Everyone knows if you want to torch old scaffolding, you travel solo. I am here for internal arson. Don’t touch me.” Somebody wasn’t in the best frame of mind! Ah, holidays. Perhaps you can relate. I was also younger and wildly unhappy at the time. Above is the pull...
by Rachel | Dec 4, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
“My mother cried over all the men in her life. I am in the Blue Flame. a dive bar in Onset, Massachusetts, carefully folding a dollar bill. This bar’s okay because the bartender’s nice and there’s a good jukebox. Right now it’s...
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...
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