Welcome
Hello! You've landed on the website of author, critic, and teacher Rachel Howard. I'm currently working on interconnected short stories about models and artists, revising a novel, and serving as the 2011-2012 Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow at Warren ...Thursday, January 5th, 2012 · Misc., Personal · No Comments »
Hello!
Greetings! You’ve landed on the website of writer Rachel Howard. I’m an author, journalist, dance critic, and writing teacher. However, I’m not a web designer (hence the circa 2005 site design—the pink is getting a little old). ...Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 · Books, Dance, Misc., Personal, The Lost Night · No Comments »
Summer and Beyond
Hello friends, this week I'm off to Asheville, NC, where I'll be attending my final residency as a student at Warren Wilson College's wonderful writing program, and graduating with my MFA in fiction on July 12. The graduation marks ...Sunday, June 28th, 2009 · Dance, Misc., Personal · No Comments »
Welcome Home, Emmet
My brother is home safe from Iraq and done with the Army. Now if only we could all be done with George Bush.Friday, September 21st, 2007 · Personal · No Comments »
Today is the 20th anniversary of my father's death.
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 · Personal · 3 Comments »
St. John the Divine
It was chance that put me at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine yesterday, September 11. I?m in New York on business this week, and since I was baptized Episcopalian three years ago I have always meant ...Monday, September 12th, 2005 · Personal · 2 Comments »
Here's the second half of my Chronicle essay about my brother. I got to Instant Message with him the morning. He's been practicing photography, with some skill, I think, and he sent these photos: He's been doing incredibly tough work lately. ...
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005 · Personal · No Comments »
Memorial Day
My brother Emmet, an Army sniper stationed in Mosul, Iraq, has to be having his best Memorial Day ever. To begin with, the Santa Barbara News-Press has a front-page article today about the risky dive he took into the ...Monday, May 30th, 2005 · Personal · No Comments »
sport of the arts
And now just for fun . . . Launching this blog has connected me to an old friend in high school, who writes: ?I was reading an email about "SUMMERDANCE" in Santa Barbara and saw that a "Rachel Howard" was reviewing ...Thursday, August 5th, 2004 · Personal · 1 Comment »
It tolls for the froggy
I took this photo at a makeshift pet cemetery tucked away in San Francisco?s Castro Neighborhood. It?s part of a longer story that I will make very short here. My younger brother Emmet is a sniper with the U.S. Army, ...Friday, July 23rd, 2004 · Personal · 1 Comment »
