Emily Rachelle Writes

#1 9/27/17 Dear Freshman, It's been roughly a month since I started my senior year of college. I've been looking back on my college experience and doing the "self-reflecting" thing a lot. It's weird, being one of the older students on campus. I see the (many) freshmen on my floor. I notice the questions they ask me, how they listen to my stories, nod with alert eyes. They expect me to know the campus, to have an inside scoop on life here. It's an odd sort of respect, the kind you give to someone who is technically your peer but you view in a different position. I feel very strange to be on this end of it. How did I get here, and so fast?

The Federal Communications Commission and internet service providers want to repeal the 2015 Net Neutrality rules, allowing ISPs to potentially control or limit your internet access. I, along with many other bloggers, self-published ebook authors, and Netflix (to name a few folks) want to protect the free internet. Join us! Save the open internet! Read a basic brief on the Net Neutrality debate from Mashable. My Open Letter to the FCC To the decision makers at the Federal Communications Commission who want to repeal the 2015 rules of Net Neutrality, I am a college student set to graduate in less than a year. I'll be entering the field of public relations and wedding planning, but I already have an established presence online. I have a blog that's been running for almost seven years and three self-published books. I wouldn't have any of this—my blog, my books, my college career—without a free internet. I started and still run my blog on Blogger, which, though owned...

The girl has short hair, thick and black and curly; The side of her head is shaved She wears no makeup A ripped plaid flannel shirt, torn black jeans, Combat boots. This look could be punk Or just fashion in general But the way she laughs, Turns her head, Watches that girl in the sundress at the bar, Holds her beer; These things tell me, maybe Maybe it isn't fashion Maybe, she's a bit like me.

Hello, my lovely readers! This month has turned out to be quite literary for me. Today we have an old friend of mine, Rachelle Rea (now Cobb!), here to celebrate the birthday of the last book in her Steadfast Love  series. (If you want, you can re-read my review of the first book of the series,  The Sound of Diamonds . ) About the Series In 16th-century Europe, the Reformation rages between Protestants and Catholics. Gwyneth, half-Dutch, flees from England to Holland to escape the man who murdered her parents. When he follows her there and insists he came to rescue her, will she trust this man called Dirk? When tragedy strikes, will their steadfast love erode? About the Author Times gone by snatch Rachelle Rea Cobb close, so she reads and writes about years long ago--her passions include the Reformation, Revolutions, and romance. Rachelle wrote the Steadfast Love series during college. Five months after she graduated, she signed a three-...