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It seems a rite of passage in today’s world to be ghosted.

GHOST TALES

It seems a rite of passage in today’s world to be ghosted. I’ve had my fair share of ghosts. They could cohabit a very large house together. I sometimes imagine them tucked into their rooms, folding the laundry, and sharing their pastimes in a Rachel-free zone. I admit it gives me a twisted feeling in the pit of my stomach. Have I been rejected?

Memoir

Rachel Dalivane

Nov 1910 min read

Artificial Intelligence is becoming a danger to American citizens

AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH

Air pollution is just one of many dangers that go hand-in-hand with Artificial Intelligence though. The water consumption of data centers is stunning. The average data center guzzles 550,000 gallons of water per day. Yes, you read that right. Over half a million gallons of water are expelled every day for the average data center (there are over 5,000 nationally). The water is used to cool the overheated machinery. Citizens in Mansfield, Georgia—a home to Meta and Blacks

Rachel Dalivane

Nov 214 min read

PLUTO IN SCORPIO

Does the Queen of Night shrink from sunlight And dream between sight A desert denouement? To open Close And withhold

Poetry

Rachel Dalivane

Apr 16, 20221 min read

TO HOVER IN

I have a love for beautiful views that began when I was a child. I’d sit on top of the monkey bars or sit in my favorite hemlock tree just to see from that vantage point. I watched setting suns and moonlit skies from this view. On summer nights when the neighbor kids were catching fire flies and eating ice cream, I’d sneak upstairs to stand there in that spot watching everyone below. I pressed my nose up to the cold screen to feel the cool air of summer nights waft in on m

Memoir

Rachel Dalivane

Jan 27, 202215 min read

THE HIGH PLACE PHENOMENON

I’m neither here nor there. I feel instead. I feel that I’m far off like stars and cool night air passing through the window, breathing in and slipping out again, a hushed love affair with an imagined state, the feeling of freedom, the freedom of flight. I’m not a woman but a dream instead and I feel…

Memoir

Rachel Dalivane

Jun 7, 20214 min read