by SB Rawz | Oct 4, 2021 | Bigger Badder Life
September 7 marked two years since I proposed to Theresa. By then, I had known for some time that she would like to get married and she had known for an equal amount of time that I had deep feelings of skepticism about the institution that were only minutely to do... by SB Rawz | Aug 30, 2021 | Bigger Badder Life, Our Web of Interconnection
Divorce is a great university but the cost of tuition is too high. – Harvey Yaffe One of the most important things that I learned in the university of my divorce was that curiosity is a mighty nice idea but only impactful when made into a verb. And:... by SB Rawz | Aug 2, 2021 | Bigger Badder Life
My friend, the author John Ketwig, and I were having an email exchange about books recently. Though we’ve now known each other for many years, describing to each other the contents of our various bookshelves and random stacks of books (the to-be-read piles holding the... by SB Rawz | Jul 12, 2021 | Bigger Badder Life
Relatively unimportant contextual note: I wrote this last year, in a notebook where I was gathering observations in a way that was inspired entirely by the fact that we were then reading The Book of Delights by Ross Gay. I have a certain comfort with discomfort that... by SB Rawz | Jun 28, 2021 | Bigger Badder Life
You’re throwing away the last XX years!- nearly every unwilling partner at a relationship’s end When I looked up when Henry Ford lived, I quickly stumbled onto The Henry Ford museum and was amused to find that it includes a page entitled “Stories of Social Justice and... by SB Rawz | Jun 14, 2021 | Bigger Badder Life
Last year, I made a note to myself on today’s calendar date. It says, “Expect discomfort, make room for joy.” Today is my birthday. Before you go assuming that the expected discomfort is about the number of times I’ve spun around the sun – today marks 43 years since I...