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!

ICE’s Icy Response to Reports of (Space) Alien Crime

ByRachel May 1, 2017 0 Comments
After the election, I was so hurt and dazed and upset that it was all I could do to push out one political blog post, an effort that sent me into hibernation the second I hit “publish.” My inner blogger has been clinging to a bit of driftwood, panting to catch her breath until now. The thing that finally pushed me back into the sea of writing was—what else?—someone else’s bad writing!...

Proverbs 32: A husband of epic awesomeness, who can find?

ByRachel February 14, 2017 1 Comment
A husband of epic awesomeness who can find? He is worth far more than chocolate desserts. His wife has full confidence in him and sure enough, his grocery run lacks nothing that was on the list. He brings her fun and compliments and love, not drama and neglect and disappointment, all the days of his life. He selects audio and video clips and works eagerly on his recording software. He is like the...

What Has She Brought Us? Hope.

ByRachel December 28, 2016 1 Comment
It’s hard to think of something to say about Carrie Fisher that hasn’t already been said. The woman was a powerhouse, and the internet rightly lit up with her praises the day of her passing. She was a feisty soul who ate patriarchy on buttered toast for breakfast and cut sexist media standards off at the knees. She worked to take away the stigma of mental illness. She didn’t edit herself as...

To Friends and Family I Love Who Voted Trump

ByRachel November 12, 2016 5 Comments
I have quite a few friends, family members, and family-members-of-friends who have always been dear to me and who made different voting choices than I did during this election season. You voted for Trump, maybe because you were enthusiastic about him, or maybe because you just thought he was okay-ish—or maybe you really disliked him but really disliked Clinton more. There were lots of reasons,...

#LoveGrowsMutuality — I Really Believe That

ByRachel April 29, 2016 1 Comment
In the past few months, writers and theologians who hold conservative views on gender roles have made a lot of claims that misbehaving men are the only reason women feel they need egalitarianism/feminism, and that if all boyfriends and husbands treated women well, women would abandon these ideologies and slide happily into complementarian life. We egalitarian wives and girlfriends know better,...