it’s messy in here.

I’m Rachel Stevens: a writer, a radio producer, and a mother in Seattle Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This is my first Modern Love essay. This is my short documentary on PBS POV. And here’s my portfolio website if you want to creep on me more before letting me into your inbox.

The Messayist is personal essays about doing life whilst being a hot mess, with music suggestions, a little woo, and things on the internet that make me laugh/cry/dance. Out on Tuesdays.

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be a Diane.

walking it back.

when she was my age.

who he is.

burn, save, build, repeat.

one more lump.