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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 18/09/2026

Man, I bought from you guys to avoid Amazon!

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 15/07/2026

. @radial.racing: helping you follow the Tour at work since 2026

iPhone horizontal on a MagSafe charger (on an office desk) so the live view of the Radial app takes up the whole screen.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 15/06/2026

I always feel better after I’ve gotten out on my bike.

Orange and yellow road bike propped against a bollard. The paved trail is lined with trees, ferns, grass, and other bright greenery.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 14/06/2026

How much stress baking am I doing? We have Little House on the Prairie quantities of butter, sugar, flour, and yeast.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 26/04/2026

It’s a beautiful spring day, and I have been out on my bike.

A fine, smooth gravel road rolling off into the distance and around a bend. Green grass is growing on either side, and the deciduous trees among the pines are just putting forth spring buds. The sky is bright and blue with wispy clouds.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 04/04/2026

There’s a Mackinac Roundtable on Talent and a Mackinac Policy Conference you could maybe swing an invite to? I liked it best in the early morning, before the crowds arrived. Got a great deal on a hotel on the island that year.

Main Street of Mackinac Island, early in the morning, before the day’s first ferry arrived. The street is wet from being power washed.

Two draft horses in harness, standing ready to pull a carriage.

Sunrise over Lake Michigan, on a part of the island farther away from town. A beach is visible, along with an empty road, pine trees, and absolutely no people.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 26/01/2026

Not from this winter, but trust that the same thing is happening this winter. Apollo loves his frisbee, he loves snow, and the BEST thing in the world is chasing a frisbee in the snow. He could do it for hours.

Apollo, a yellow lab/shepherd mix dog, and his emotional support frisbee, which he has chomped into a taco shape. It’s less aerodynamic that way but he doesn’t care. He’s running in the snow, and the sheer number of paw prints shows that he’s been running back and forth so. much.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 30/12/2025

Not a lot of riding for me this year; I trained for spring/fall half marathons and did one sprint tri. That still gave me 650+ miles on the bike, mostly in summer! This year I’ve got gravel on my mind, racing and just riding. I planned a new local route last winter and have yet to ride it.

Yellow and orange bike leaning against a sign giving directions and distance to four small towns, two to the left (north) and two to the right (south)

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 04/12/2025

This headline is my Onion all-timer. It’s a silly little bit, but there was an honest-to-god razor arms race happening and then Gillette did EXACTLY THIS

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
Published: February 18, 2004
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That's three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards went to four blades.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 17/11/2025

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Skeletor says “I hate how most of my problems are abstract or systemic. I want to fight them with a sword.”

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 16/11/2025

We also have a white sofa and it looks absolutely gorgeous in the room. Or did originally. It’s still very comfy but the white fabric has not at all held up to five years of kids (now 14 and 12) and dogs (which we did not have when we bought the sofa).

Pristine white sofa in my living room, in the glow of afternoon light. Ozzy, a cat, is perched on the cushion with his paws tucked underneath him, not creating stains or bothering anybody at all.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 13/10/2025

LRT: what a great moment to have picked this up

A library book, “The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University” by Larry G. Gerber

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 23/08/2025

Recliner, couch, office chair… I have so many photos of baby naps like this. At night we coslept (the only way I got decent sleep). We had bed rails on both sides of the bed to prevent baby from rolling off the side. Baby is about to turn 12.