Hi y’all. Reinventing Rebecca has been quiet of late, though not for lack of thinking about it. Energy-sapping work + a disproportionate amount of socializing + circumstances beyond my control = one over-tired Rebecca. I have a few people lined up to interview for this site, but it has been unexpectedly difficult to schedule times [...]

I admit, it may have been cheating a bit to put ”Finish my Master’s degree” on my life list after I had finished coursework and a few months before I defended my thesis, but I had reasons for including it. First, it was a goal I had worked toward for five years, and there were points during that [...]

Over the next month or so I plan to write about the three or four goals I checked off my life list since I started it last summer. First up, kayaking! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [...]

Several years ago my family helped my brother move into our dad’s aunt’s home. Her husband, our dad’s uncle, had recently passed away, and my brother moved in to help take care of the farm, which had been the family homestead for generations. He now lives in the part of the farmhouse that for many [...]

I love reading life lists, bucket lists, lists of places to see before you die, lists of songs and books you must read in your lifetime. Last summer, inspired by Mighty Girl Maggie Mason and many of her readers, I started a life list of my own. So far, there are only 53 items on [...]

Daniel Goldin, proprietor of Boswell Book Company on Downer Avenue in Milwaukee, kindly agreed to be my first interviewee for ReinventingRebecca. Daniel and I worked together at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops when I was first out of college, and he helped me learn the ropes of the book industry. We met for regular tête-à-têtes when I moved over [...]

When the idea for this website took root in my mind, I was tempted to google “reinvention” and find every other site or blogger out there with a similar theme. I knew, however, that that approach would be self-destructive in a way—that I would feel deflated if it seemed like my idea was unoriginal or [...]

Here it is! My blog/website/foray into online publishing. I have tried to sit down and write this first entry countless times over the past several months. My idea for ReinventingRebecca.com started to take shape last fall, and I began to lay the groundwork—registering domain names, researching content management systems and blog applications, bouncing ideas off smart [...]