Rachel Sauer

Colorado, Denver

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'It seems like this should work' is my road to ruin

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelFriends, I am not here to make fun of vegans or veganism, but to ask a simple question: WHERE THE HECK AM I SUPPOSED TO GET VEGAN HALVA??? AND WHAT IS HALVA??? I JUST WANT TO MAKE BROWNIES!!!So, yes, with no one to blame but myself, I proposed a potluck for my supervisor, whom I adore and who is retiring and has eaten a vegan diet for many years.
Finding friends is like reading between the lines

3 weeks ago | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelThis is a story about how I inadvertently joined a romance book club and the irony of it happening because I apparently can’t read, but really it’s about making friends as an adult. Which is very hard. So, yes, I saw a flyer at the library for the “Romancing the Tropes” book club and, OK fine, in hindsight I see it’s fairly obvious that the book club explores different tropes within the romance genre.
An apple a day? It's the Boulder way

1 month ago | colorado.edu | Rachel Sauer

Newly planted apple orchard on CU Boulder campus is a nexus of university and community partnerships and will be a living classroom for students and educators For now, they are twiggy little things, all spindly adolescent limbs that nevertheless hint at future harvests. Saturday morning, one even wore a scattering of creamy white blossoms-flowers that, in years to come, once roots have gained hold and branches have stretched up and out, will grow into apples.
Papal conclave: fascinating. Group work: absolute headache

1 month ago | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelYou know how some people get about fantasy football, obsessively studying scouting reports and team rosters like they’re trying to suss meaning from tea leaves? Turns out I’m that way about papal succession in the Catholic Church. For the record, I am not nor have I ever been Catholic, but while I mourn Pope Francis, who I thought was a wonderful man, I also leap on every tidbit of information leading up to the papal conclave beginning Wednesday in Vatican City.
Downsizing moves on the stuff of memories

1 month ago | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelRecently I had the opportunity (?) to help loved ones move, and I question my use of the word “opportunity” for the following reasons:1. Whether moving myself or helping someone else move, I generally reach a point of asking, “Wouldn’t it be easier to just squirt some kerosene, light a fire and walk away in slo-mo? New beginnings! A fresh start! No book boxes packed to the approximate density of a black hole!”2. Love, it turns out, is conditional in the middle of a move.
Come crisis or apocalypse, I'm ready with beans

2 months ago | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelYou might be wondering why I’ve been driving around with a case of no-salt Ro-Tel on my back seat for going on three weeks, and I’ll tell you: The amount of salt that Big Food puts in our, you know, food is criminal and they should all be tried at the Hague. Also, I’m apparently too lazy to schlep 12 cans of Ro-Tel inside but not too lazy to buy them in the first place. Does this make me the world’s preeminent Ro-Tel fan?
Oh, throw me a bone. I can use it to make something

Feb 15, 2025 | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelThe empty conditioner bottle is a hill upon which I am willing to die. I just need to get that out there before people cock their heads 20 degrees in concern and gently suggest I Might Need Help™. I do not need help. I need soft hair. But yes, OK, there is an empty conditioner bottle among the clutter under my bathroom sink. It was timidly pointed out to me as an object of concern, since I don’t usually have an issue with tossing out trash.
Allow me to change the subject: squirrel!

Feb 1, 2025 | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m not here to talk politics. Quite the opposite, in fact —I’m here to NOT talk politics. It’s not that I’m uninterested or don’t care, it’s that I’m a skosh exhausted. So tie-tie. Just need a little breaky-poo. It’s been a week. Naturally, this has me pondering the art of changing the subject — the conversational pivot, if you will.
Dis tracks, drama, 'beef' - there's catharsis in this

Jan 18, 2025 | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelI have inexplicably been following the ongoing beef between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar, which took a dramatic turn this week when Drake filed a lawsuit against his own record label for releasing Lamar’s dis track “Not Like Us” last year (the two artists actually share a record label).
Forget turkey. Here's how to get a gratitude boost

Nov 22, 2024 | gjsentinel.com | Rachel Sauer

Special to the SentinelA couple of years ago, I read about a study conducted by psychologists Robert Emmons of the University of California, Davis, and Michael McCullough of the University of Miami. For 10 weeks, they asked study participants separated into three groups to either write about 1) things that happened during the week for which they were grateful, 2) occurrences that irritated them during the week or 3) events that affected them, with no stipulation of positively or negatively.