,

the whole situation in the country was
1950s; a can of paint sits on the floor.
politically so negative."
The Pashmans have been in their new
Rachel did not want to leave,
house for just a few weeks, but doing
though, and to this day says, "I would
something in here is a priority.
go back in a minute."
This room has a tape recorder on
When they made the decision to
the floor, just beside a long table
come back to the States, the couple
topped with music by the country-hip
agreed they had had enough of the
Dixie Chicks.
South. Michigan was a good option
Rachel Pashman, 33, sits on the
because Albert, doing better after
floor and listens, uneasily, to a tape of
surgery, could get right to work as a
herself singing. "It always is a little
chiropractor, rather than having to
strange," she says; "to hear yourself
wait any number of months
like this."
to secure a new license.
Accompanied by noth-
Pashman believes
(Different U.S. states each
ing
more than a piano, she
in the value of
have their own regulations
one-on-one teaching, sings about her love for her
concerning medical practi-
children, and about love
so she educates her
tioners and licensing.)
between a man and a
children at home.
They wanted a large
woman.
She wrote the
They are, left to
Jewish community, and so
songs herself.
right, Esther, 12;
came to Detroit. They rent- Shmuel, 4; and
Among Pashman's most
ed a house for a time, had
Sarah, 5 months.
devoted fans is Atlanta resi-
another child (a daughter,
dent Linda Katz, a chiro-
Sarah, now 5 months) then
practor and longtime friend
settled into a house in Oak Park, just
who met Rachel at a health club in -
weeks ago.
Georgia.
And still, Rachel dreamed of
"We just clicked," Katz says. "Do
singing.
you know what it's like to meet some-
one, and you don't know that much
about her but it just doesn't matter? You
Use Your Talents,
know you have met a friend for life."
Dr. Katz describes Pashman's voice
And Use Them Well'
as "comforting and calm and beauti-
A screened-in porch at back has dull,
ful. It's like a melody that carries you.
chipped tiles ladefi with scrunched up,
It's the kind of voice a child would
grocery-store plastic bags.
Find soothing, like someone singing a
There's a bottle of Coke in the
lullaby."
kitchen (though Pashman does her
Dr. Katz admires Pashman's singing
best to prepare natural, healthy foods,
— and her strength.
she admits to indulging in junk from
"She just doesn't stop; she creates
time to time), and children's pictures
her goals, then sees them, and then
are taped up high: one a mosaic of
they happen," she says. 'And her goals
multicolored raw beans, another a set
are not little. It's like she calls me and
of tiny hand prints dipped in orange-
says, 'I need a house.' The next day,
and-pink paint.
she has found one.
The den is covered with that dark,
That's why I'm convinced that
brooding paneling so popular in the
she'll make an album.

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