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Rachel

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About Me

I'm writing my dissertation on saints' lives and looking forward to finishing and getting a job somewhere. Being homeless sucks! I've been living at home in Lancaster off and on this year and now I'm teaching a literature class in Europe in the fall (see travel blog below). Don't know where I'll go next year, but I hope to teach English and Religion courses at the college level soon. I'm planning to travel around the world before I settle down anywhere, and I'll probably spend some time living in CO Springs with my cool little sister, and/or in Seattle with my very hospitable friends. This layout is from WhateverLife.com; get yours today!

My Interests

Reading, travel, cooking, liberal politics, Mennonites and pacifism, independent films, saints, hiking, Lady Bears basketball, swimming

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Music:

Wilco, The Decemberists, Great Big Sea, Alison Krauss, Nora Jones, Jack Johnson, Carbon Leaf, U2, Coldplay, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Garden State Soundtrack, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack, Neil Young, Enya, David Gray, Death Cab for Cutie, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Patty Griffin, Natalie Merchant, The Shins, Zero 7, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Nickel Creek, John Butler, Iron & Wine, Black Eyed Peas, John Mayer, Lyle Lovett, Dixie Chicks, Dave Matthews Band

Books:

All saints' lives--especially books on/by St. Francis, St. Benedict, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Helena (Evelyn Waugh), St. Brendan (Frederick Buechner), and St. Julian the Hospitaller (Walter Wangerin), Brothers K (the original by Dostoevsky and the later one by David James Duncan), The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Paul Elie), The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan), Selected Poems by George Herbert, John Donne, Gerard Manly Hopkins and Wendell Berry, The Divine Comedy (Dante), Paradise Lost (Milton), Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton), Girl Meets God (Lauren Winner), My Faith So Far (Patton Dodd), Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer), The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Mark Noll), The Art of Biblical Narrative (Robert Alter), Evangelium Vitae (Pope John Paul II), The Madonna of 115th St. (Robert Orsi), and anything by Anne Lamott, Annie Dillard, Frederick Buechner, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Kathleen Norris, Ron Hansen, Walter Wangerin, or Thomas Merton

My Blog

Procrastination 101

Warning!  This is a dangerous form of procrastination...  I wasn't even supposed to be on myspace today--oops!  Hope you enjoy reading and respond at your own risk... 1. Can you cook?Ye...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:54:00 PST

Words from Waco

Yes, I'm back in the good old US of A.  Part of me wants to head right back over there, but I'm also glad to be home (sort of...).  The "sort of" part is mostly because I don't know when I'l...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:51:00 PST

Europe Trip

Hi Everybody, I´m in Galicia, Spain.  It´s beautiful here.  I don´t have time to write much now, but I´ll try to post more as I go along.  Tracy Hoffman and I are traveling in Europe fo...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:30:00 PST