Rachel Kaufman, freelance reporter

I'm an interrogator of gargoyle lovers, frog fondlers, and the eternal optimists saving the news industry. These are some of the stories I've written.

People

Closer Inspection: Tools of the Trade at the Small Mammal House

By • Sep 11th, 2011 • Category: Life, People

Curious what a zookeeper uses to keep naked mole rats, monkeys, and porcupines happy and healthy? Click through to the Washington Post for the answer.



Closer Inspection: Swell Time

By • Jul 17th, 2011 • Category: Featured Stories, Life, People

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Secrets of Swift Sales

By • Feb 27th, 2009 • Category: Featured Stories, People, Real Estate

BRANDON GREEN RESOLVED to try his hand at real estate after watching a late-night infomercial in 2000. Bored with his job in sales as an IT recruiter in Silver Spring, Green paid $19.95 for Carlton Sheets’s “No Down Payment” video, and applied himself. “My first project was a complete overhaul of a house, 727 11th Street, NE,” he recalls.



Just Prove Him Wrong

By • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: Careers, My Best Stuff, People

HEY, DUMMY. Get over here and stop ruining your life.

Larry Winget, the Pitbull of Personal Development and star of A&E’s short-lived reality show, “Big Spender,” says in his new book that you – yes, you – are an idiot.



Schooled: Inside D.C.’s oldest and only independent learning center

By • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Careers, My Best Stuff, People

BLACKJACK DEALING. Resume writing. Improve your life. Make more money. Become more attractive. Turn that great invention idea into reality. Heck, is that Sudoku puzzle too hard for you? There’s a class for that, too. Washington’s source for educational seminars both serious and off-the-wall is First Class Inc., that business whose brochures are usually nestled [...]



Names & Faces

By • May 26th, 2008 • Category: More, People

Cheeky Request or Jest? Could there be another wedding at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Tex., this time between two women? During an upcoming episode of her talk show, Ellen DeGeneres asked Jenna Bush Hager and first lady Laura Bush for permission to use the spread for her planned wedding to longtime partner Portia de [...]