by SB Rawz | Apr 14, 2024 | All Up in It
Confession: Getting this All Up in It out to you had been a heavy lift. Lots of stuff feels like a heavier-than-usual lift right now. And yet, to one of the points of what Angela Fontaine is all up in, working independently means sometimes having to navigate which is... by SB Rawz | Apr 8, 2024 | Our Web of Interconnection
Every relationship ends. I’ve had them end with bangs and with whimpers, with earth-scorching words and with tender mutual agreement. Last Thursday morning, just before 6am, I had my longest-running friendship end when whatever it was that animated her slipped out of... by SB Rawz | Mar 25, 2024 | All Up in It
Once, when I lived deep in the countryside, an ailing skunk showed up in our driveway. Rabies, distemper, who knows. All I do know is that for the fullness of a day, it walked one great big circle that included the top of our driveway and the close edge of the cow... by SB Rawz | Mar 18, 2024 | Bigger Badder Life
In our front window is a wooden case with two shelves and two grow lights: Theresa’s spring rig. One tray is covered in the adorable shoots of baby plants, some peppers, mostly tomatoes, more than we’ll know what to do with and fewer than we’ll want. Our forsythia are... by SB Rawz | Mar 10, 2024 | All Up in It
For the last year or three of my late mother-in-law’s functional life – which is to say, when the dementia hadn’t yet made it too uncomfortable to tolerate even the 8-minute drive to our favorite lunch spot – she would eat only chocolate chess pie for lunch. She...