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Rachel Rosolina

@rachelrosolina.com

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Writer. Traveler. Appalachian (East TN). EIC at UP of KY. Appalshop alum. Berea College & WVU grad.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 12/01/2026

Finding joy where I can 🍳

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 08/01/2026

On a nostalgia kick lately 🪀

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 03/01/2026

Today’s doodle 🎨

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 03/01/2026

Big Dipper for today’s doodle

Digital painting of the Big Dipper pouring out clouds

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 01/01/2026

A dino donut for today’s doodle 🍩

Digital painting of a donut with pink icing and multicolored sprinkles asking “what is your favorite dinosaur?”

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 01/01/2026

Today’s doodle 🎈

Gold number balloons for 2026 with a hand reaching for the 6

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 30/12/2025

Today’s doodle 🪟

Digital painting of curtains over a window

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 29/12/2025

Cloudy brain 🎨

Digital painting of a cloudy sunset with a sliver of moon

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 23/12/2025

Drew a tree because I felt like it

Digital charcoal drawing of evergreen with a star on top in the snow in front of a sunset

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 17/12/2025

That empty chair feels funerial. And Karoline Leavitt is the cousin who always misreads the room.

Christopher Anderson’s portrait of Karoline Leavitt in a red pantsuit next to an empty armchair with a wrinkled flag blanket draped over the back.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 01/12/2025

Thrilled to have a sonnet about Great Aunt Norma in this collection from Backwoods Literary Press! Preorder here: www.backwoodsliterarypress.com

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 28/11/2025

Getting ready for tomorrow’s forecast ❄️

Stamp of a snowy winter night scene carved in a pink eraser

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 25/11/2025

December 19, 1997 in the homeschool journals

The Christmas play is less than 3 days away. think I’m going to be great. I know my lines backwards and forwards. Okay, maybe not backwards, but definitely forwards!

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 16/11/2025

🌲🌳🌲🌳

Rachel Rosolina
On Walking Through My Childhood Woods
I do not say mine
to the trees I have known since birth as I dip beneath branches
so dew dampens my skin, my hair.
- do not say mine to the familiar curve of the wooded hillside,
cradling me like a cupped palm.
I do not say mine to the chestnut on the ridge nor the cinnamon fern by the spring nor the tight tangle of rhododendron.
I do not say mine.
I say I am yours.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 25/10/2025

Makin stuff 🕯️

Stamp of a birthday candle carved into a pink rubber eraser

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 19/08/2025

Preach, kid.

December 11, 1996:
We didn't get it easy yesterday, and it doesn't book like we are going to get it today either.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 20/07/2025

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 14/06/2025

Berea, KY

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 18/04/2025

October 23, 1996

Handwritten journal entry:

Yesterday, The whole family went to Arby's yesterday. After everyone had eaten their turnovers, Samuel decided he wanted another milk, so Dad gave him a dollar bill and he went up to the counter to buy it. He came back a few minutes later, just strolling along; a big grin on hís face, his hand stuck out straight in front of him.
But, most of all, his hand had the change in it. He was as proud, he had remembered the change. Then Dad commented, "Where's the milk?" Samuel ran back to counter. The rest of us laughed our heads off.
He’s crazy sometimes!

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 12/04/2025

I don't know what is going on in my neighborhood but I grabbed my conch shell just in case.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 28/03/2025

Singing poetry from my favorite author brought a tad bit of joy to my day.

It is my Lent to break my Lent,
To eat when I would fast,
To know when slender strength is spent,
Take shelter from the blast
When I would run with wind and rain, To sleep when I would watch.
It is my Lent to smile at pain
But not ignore its touch.
It is my Lent to listen well When I would be alone,
To talk when I would rather dwell In silence, turn from none Who call on me, to try to see That what is truly meant
Is not my choice. If Christ's I'd be It's thus I'll keep my Lent.
—Madeleine L'Engle

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 24/03/2025

Poem for today

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 21/03/2025

Anyone at #appstudies2025? Come see me at the @appalshop.bsky.social booth! I have candy!

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 14/03/2025

Today’s lesson from a poet.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 14/03/2025

Well, that was cool 🌕

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 06/03/2025

Hot tip: Homemade ravioli makes the pain of life stop momentarily.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 15/02/2025

Eastern Kentucky is flooding again. Mutual aid is gonna be critical in the coming days. Donate what you can now.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 15/02/2025

“We guard the hangman, hang the just.”

Confession, by Louise McNeill

Oh, we your people are so small
we dig the burrow, build the wall
To shield us from the sparrow’s fall,
And, in our prison, so distrust
The clean suggestion of the dust,
We guard the hangman, hang the just.

We tie our faith to little things:
Old cups and teapots, worlds and kings.
We anchor ships with linen strings,
And, faint of hope, dare not forsake
The four-land boulevard to take
The Wild road through the marshy brake.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 07/02/2025

Finally read @cartersickels.bsky.social’s The Evening Hour in all its tender, raw, aching beauty. Read it yourself, and then watch the @appalshop.bsky.social film The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (Mimi Pickering, 1975) on YouTube.

The cover of The Evening Hour by Carter Sickles: a plastic chair surrounded by trash in front of a pond.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 01/02/2025

Finding small joys is the only way through some days. Today it is dogsitting this doggo.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 31/01/2025

4/8/96, 12 years old Regrets.

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Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com · 22/01/2025

If you read one book this year, let it be Stolen Focus. Gaining an understanding of how US society has been structured to break our focus (and our senses of self and community) in service of capitalism means that knowledge can also be turned into a point of resistance against those same forces.

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