Rachel is a wife, mother, and speech-language pathologist. In 2022 she began writing semi-public journal articles to update family and friends about the health journey of a family member who had been diagnosed with cancer.
As to not bore her reader, she told the honest, painful, and cynically comical truth. Truth-telling became therapeutic coping. In quiet moments of grief or wondering, words would come in waves, so she started writing them. They took her all over. Thus was born, Rachel Writing Around.