Author Archive for Rachel

Winston Churchill said: “If you are going through hell, keep going.”

The night before my apartment burned down, I was lying in my bed weeping and praying for a less chaotic life. My life was adrift and I was collecting bad habits as I moved aimlessly through it. I was smoking and drinking to excess and was in a bad, on-again, off-again, relationship with a boyfriend. [...]

A Life of “Defining Moments”

 
 When I posted the poll below, I had not yet learned that my dear friend Karen had had a stroke.
Karen lives with a life threatening blood clotting disorder.   That’s her in the picture, a blond brit with an amazing story to share. 
RIght now she’s working on getting her body stable enough to learn to walk once
again after this most recent stroke.  Prayers are welcome. Pity [...]

I am writing a piece about this topic. I would love for you to take this poll in advance of the post!

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The Pain in Positive Thinking

Next Teleconference
THIS SATURDAY!!
Just a reminder, my next teleconference is:

September 27th 
3:00 – 4:00 PM EDT
If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form on the contact page.  Once I get your email I’ll send you the phone number and access code you’ll need to join in the conversation.  After you have done this once, you’ll [...]

How to Worry: A Primer

I wrote this in the morning and it’s getting moldy just sitting in my draft bin.  So, because I don’t want you to be without some new worrying skills, I offer you…
How To Worry!

My friend Susan recently said to me, ”it seems your thinking in the shower produces good ideas.”  WELL, I DID have some ideas about worrying in the shower this morning, so lets see if [...]

How to be as Limited as Mozart

I was invited to be a guest poster on the blog “Catskill Cottage Seed“.  It came out of a post that Richard, the blog author, wrote about embracing limitors.  I had submitted a comment which developed into the following post on his blog. 

 
Guest Post
by Rachel Z. Cornell of Why Not Rachel
(Rachel is a legally blind blogger, [...]

McCain Can’t Send an Email??

I just wrote an email to Glenn Beck after seeing him and a panel of guests making up excuses for why McCain can’t write and send emails, here it is….

Mr Beck,
McCain can’t send emails?  Come on.  I have to disagree this you and your panel on this one.  He can and would send emails if he [...]

At the Twitter Cafe’

If you have been thinking about signing up to use Twitter, here are a few things that might help you both use it and feel more comfortable with it.  I write this from a non computer, non social networking, don’t know what the letters PR stands for kind of perspective. 
 
I think it was Jonathan Fields who said [...]