other works | RachelMReis

Jan 21, 20218 min read

For the love of our democracy, stop making these types of jokes. I'm begging at this point.

If someone would have told me two or three years ago that in 2021, I would be tagging Ted Cruz in posts about wishing his dad had pulled...

Jan 6, 20217 min read

Fascism & the Capitol Storming

Forgive the informality of this post - part historical review, part pleas for conscious consumerism, part potential for debate - I think...

Dec 27, 20195 min read

It's a process.

I have always wanted to believe that I was self-aware. But I was recently reminded how much I have very visible patterns of self-neglect...

Dec 5, 201918 min read

A Good Man, Drowning

I’ve started this story about fifteen times. The first draft was scribbled in the back of a book I was reading because I was desperate...

Jan 27, 20192 min read

Count Your Wins.

Life is hard. I hate it when people say that to me. It's so unbearably cliche and proverbial. And proverbs are the last refuge of the...

RACHEL M. REIS, MPA, CFRE