7:48 AM: sunrise. 4:30 PM: sunset. That’s right, it’s full winter in Vancouver. And It. Is. Dark. When darkness descends, my immediately reaction is resistance. The long night is too…
Solar eclipses are spectacular. There was recently a partial solar eclipse. Miraculously, the perpetually cloudy Vancouver skies cleared at just the moment of the eclipse’s maximum expression. I raced out onto…
“Rachel, what’s going on?” “….” “…Rachel, clearly something is on your mind….just say it.” I am silent: my oceanic feelings are contained behind the steel-trap of my teeth. I feel,…
Finding your essence by cutting back Imagine a gorgeous rosebush in the fullness of her bloom: overflowing with fragrant flowers, dripping with honeyed scent, full of wild, buzzing bees. During…
A Rabbit Noticed My Condition "I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sad in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often…
It began with a text exchange: Hey Rachel, that’s a sexy, sassy new POF profile! …What new profile? …Uh, you’d better call me. A friendly Fish directs me to the…
What crossing your eyes has to do with gratitude. Cross your eyes. Go ahead. Do it. “It’s as plain as the nose on your face,” they say, and if…
Sweet, sweet freedom. Oh the freedom to date whomever I want, whenever I want! To run amok with plenty of fishies, tinder dandies, and e-harmonics! What could possibly be more…
I love to live in denial. Not deliberately, of course, but it kind of slips in around the edges, hovers just outside of the edges of my vision. And the…
When I was a kid and my parents wanted to have a “talk,” that meant something bad was about to happen. Usually I had done something thoughtless like forget to…
I’ve recently returned to the online waters after a hiatus. Towards the end of my last go-round, I had gotten to the point where I was dismissing profiles with incredulous…
I was a theatre actor for many years, and I had terrible stage fright. About a week before the show, the little hamster voices inside my head started to whisper:…
