Rachel Richard
Warm stories. Sharp wit. Soulful reflections.



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A Prayer for the First Year Without Them
This year, a few friends I love are walking into Thanksgiving carrying a kind of grief that doesn’t fit neatly beside the turkey and the “What are you…
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Saturday Morning Life Lessons: You Don’t Have to Be “Truly Outrageous” Today
If your inner pop star has left the building and your CEO energy is running on fumes, pull up a chair. This is a hologram-friendly zone where you…
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The Magic We Didn’t Know We Were Making: Our Advent Tradition of Simple Surprises
When the kids were little, we didn’t do anything fancy for Advent — just one small December surprise each day. Coloring pages. Pajamas and hot cocoa. A car…
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Saturday Morning Life Lessons: Knowing Is Only Half the Battle
Welcome to Saturday Morning Life Lessons, a nostalgic multi-part series where I revisit the 80s cartoons that shaped us — the ones we watched in footie pajamas with…
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Small Acts of Service, Great Acts of Love
We all want to help — we really do — but somewhere between intention and action, we freeze. We worry we’ll overstep, or we’ll do it wrong, or…
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How We See Each Other
What started as a silly TikTok challenge turned into something softer — a reminder that love isn’t just about who you were when you met, but about how…
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