Author: Rachel

Welcome to the web home of Rachel Heston Davis--young adult lit writer, newspaper stringer, and associate editor at Written World Communications. Please, make yourself at home. :) You can find loads of information here. For a peek into the secret life of an obsessive writer, read my blog. To see those writing projects on which I'm obsessing, visit the Writing page. If you're a fellow storyteller or story reader, I recommend Resources and Links to point you in the right direction. And as always, check my news feed for updates on projects and publishing!

Redhead With A Rep Part 2: Rose from “Titanic”

ByRachel March 24, 2014 1 Comment
To continue our series on redheaded characters who deserve more respect, I introduce you to Rose DeWitt Bukater of the 1997 film Titanic, played by Kate Winslet. (Missed Part I about The Little Mermaid ? Find it here).If you haven’t yet seen this movie, I beg of you to crawl forth from your rock and acquaint yourself with pop cultural touchstones of the last 20 years. (I gulped a bit on...

Redheads With A Rep: Ariel From “The Little Mermaid”

ByRachel March 18, 2014 1 Comment
(This post originally appeared on my other blog, before I set up Observational Ginger. First publication date was Feb. 22, 2014)."Redheads With A Rep" will be a two-post series about redheaded female movie protagonists that I believe have been misunderstood and unfairly maligned by the general public. I didn't set out specifically to talk about redheads, but both of the characters I want to...

Archived Post: Halloween: Why Others Don’t Celebrate It, and Why I Do

ByRachel March 18, 2014 2 Comments
(This post originally appeared on my former blog, before I set up Observational Ginger. It's a good fit here, so I decided to move it over. The original publication date was November 1, 2013).Seeing as how this blog will likely focus on a lot of things at the intersection of faith and culture, I decided Halloween was as good a time to come out of hibernation as any.Oh yes. I’m going there.I...

Books that Shaped Us

ByRachel September 30, 2010 3 Comments
I'm starting a new post idea called Books that Shaped Us, where we can talk about those books which influenced us most in childhood and what we remember of them. This idea started a few weekends ago when my husband and I went for a family visit to my parents' house. In digging through the basement (for some unfathomable reason), we stumbled upon an old plastic bin full of the books I owned in...

Haunting Borders

ByRachel February 4, 2010 2 Comments
Yesterday, all I did for the entire day was haunt Borders. Borders is an excellent place to haunt. They have ready-made spaces for haunters--though admittedly, those spaces have become few and far between since they moved all the chairs back to the café section. They used to have chairs all over the place, but I think someone wised up to the fact that dedicated readers sitting in the café are...