Oh Inner Heroine, Where Are You?   By Rebecca Rasmussen   This month for Women on the Verge, we were asked to write about our inner heroines and for several weeks I have been drawing a sorry blank e

There's a Whale in the Room For the last two years, I have taught a class called Food & Culture at my little university. I love this course for so many reasons, one of which is that I strive to t

Good morning everyone! I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself properly here -- My name is Rebecca Rasmusssen and I'm the author of the novel The Bird Sisters, forthcoming from Crown Publishers

The Real (Online) Me By Rebecca Rasmussen   My husband walked in the front door yesterday to find me hunched over my laptop on the sofa, squinting at a glaring white screen in a quickly