Racheltracks

About the Book

The story takes place mostly in Florence, Italy, where Rachel has a life of learning, of traveling, of being exposed to different cultures and peoples of the world. She sees viewpoints and belief systems entirely different from those with which she was raised. She parties, she hitchhikes through Europe, she travels to Thailand, she dates, she falls in love, she lives a step away from poverty, and sometimes begs on the streets for money. She writes for a newspaper, she models nude for artists, she teaches English and cleans houses, she runs a restaurant out of her house, she sells paintings on the street. And in the midst of all this chaos and eclectic being, she discovers why she is who she is, and how living and being overcomes and triumphs over the early injustices of her life. She learns to take care of herself and be responsible in many ways, and still, she keeps getting older without growing up.

About the Author

Rachel Vogelsang was born in Marietta, Georgia in 1944. She has lived in Mississippi, Maryland, England and Italy, where she was a journalist for the `Rome Daily American'. She has also owned a house cleaning service, been the marketing director for a major drapery manufacturer, worked as a paralegal for a criminal defense attorney, been an artist's model, an Avon lady, an accountant and a house painter. "The eclectic work history women of my age have been fortunate enough to choose. That `woman's' work is okay, and so is `men's'". She is the mother of four grown children and has one grandson. She presently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her boyfriend, a rock singer twelve years younger than her and who is on her exact same emotional level.