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Rachel

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

The things I left behind, I don't miss anyway.

Just started Dreadlocks, Mohawks, and Mullets (oh my!) anew: http://dreadlocksmohawksandmullets.blogspot.com/

My Interests

the divinity in all of us.

I'd like to meet:

I'll know when it happens.

Someone who will sing me to sleep and won't aggrivate my insecurities.
Free spirits. Quiet subversives. Thinkers. Lovers and dreamers. Writers. Musicians. Creators. Storytellers. Disgruntled visionaries. Misunderstood geniuses. Cheery introverts. Starving artists. People with heartwrenching crushes. People who laugh at inappropriate moments because they can't help it. Explorers and Ramblers. Time travellers. Boddhisvattas of Compassion. Anyone with a good beat and a better heart.

Music:

the Jimmy Swift Band, Caribou, Martin Sexton, Traffic, Maurice Ravel, Plants & Animals, local bands in every genre imaginable...

Movies:

too many.

Television:

I haven't watched television in a really, really, really long time. And I found out that television sucks when I tried to watch it at the gym.

Books:

I'm an academic. I get to read for a living. Lately: Water for Elephants, Little Criminals, King Leary, Brown Girl in the Ring

Heroes:

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

My Blog

Pepe le Peu

Yup, yup, yup, you get up early, you see skunks. Walking back from the canal with my dog, pre 7 a.m., I thought it was a black cat and was simply going to hiss to make it scat... Then it turned and re...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:38:00 PST

Poem

Upon hearing a CBC Tapestry special in which two men were reading the poems of Rumi, I had to write a poem myself. This might be unfinished. I want a love like Rumi's, A love that must grow, as these ...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:36:00 PST

a force in motion stays in motion

Man, today has been total and complete madness. Most days, I am a wild thing all morning, up until around 2, when I kind of crash and burn and do nothing of note until after dinner. But today, I didn'...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 22 May 2008 04:30:00 PST

streeeeeeeetch

Sometimes, especially when I realize that I have spent too much time alone and hermited, I have to force myself to stretch. I have to give myself new goals, new challenges, and try things that make me...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 05 May 2008 06:21:00 PST

Book Excerpt 2

My wonderful writing buddy challenged me to post a book excerpt a week, to be used in a novel written sometime over the next year? Anyway, here's my latest... Looks like I'm back in the saddle... &nbs...
Posted by Rachel on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:06:00 PST

where did you go?

Man, did life get so busy. I suddenly was swallowed up by a whale, you know how these things happen. So, I’ve been floating around in the belly of this whale, wondering where this whale is going...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:24:00 PST

Excerpt 1. Book Project

My friend Wendy and I have a year-long writing challenges... excerpts that potentially could end up in a book. I’m the lazy one here... I’ve been so busy that fiction writing is something ...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:01:00 PST

Risks and Rejections

I am moderately proud of being an artist and a writer. No, that’s not true. I’m extremely proud of being an artist and a writer, but like most other people who have a creative bent -- I&rs...
Posted by Rachel on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:28:00 PST

Poetry Class

So,, I’m writing a poem for poetry class and they’re really brutal in that class, obsessed with imagery and shit like that. At any rate, this will likely be the first of two submissions th...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:38:00 PST

Where I Shouldn’t Be

I shouldn’t be here tonight. Tonight, my boys are making a video in Halifax. I should be with my boys, screaming my head off like the groupie that I am, dancing like a dervish, and giving them m...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:16:00 PST