I know that people who have read this blog for a long time will appreciate when I say that last Friday I played bingo with the Knights of Co...

A few years ago I had a dreadful dental experience that included hours of drilling, a dental dam that made it impossible to close my mouth f...

I've said it here before and I'll say it again: I don't care for Halloween. For the reasons that 1.) I don't like scary thin...

Well, schools have started back up and California is on fire so that means we're in August. I've told you my thoughts on August bef...

You:  "Hey Rachel, what have you been up to?" Me: "Oh, you know. Not writing." You guys, for six months I haven't...

1. Have you heard of Choir! Choir! Choir!? (That's what it's called, I'm not just shouting it three times at you.) It's a s...

I came home from work today and didn't have any piano lessons because I gave my kids the week off to sit and contemplate how grateful th...

And just like that summer is over. I'm back in seminary (I have the BEST CLASS, you guys! I want to adopt all of them!), things are full...

There seems to be a lot of people making jerky out in the middle of nowhere between Las Vegas and Barstow. It used to be that Alien Fresh Je...