by SB Rawz | Aug 21, 2017 | The Deep Dive
August 22, 1996 is kind of a big deal for me – that date marks the near-fatal culmination of an unhealthy teen relationship. I’ve written about it a bunch, in personal essays, fiction, poetry. I shared it with however-many of the 300,000 readers of... by SB Rawz | Aug 15, 2017 | The Deep Dive
Whampus was a name that came to me in an instant as I was reading The Artist’s Way at Work. The activity at hand was to notice the various voices originating in my grey matter, parse them out, and give them proper names. Whampus was the biggest and baddest of my... by SB Rawz | Jun 12, 2017 | The Deep Dive
When I was an uncomfortable, awkward teenager, I used to wish that I could sort of konk out until all the big unknowns of my life were known: what I would be doing, with whom I would be spending my time, who I would be… At the time, I imagined it would all be... by SB Rawz | Apr 10, 2017 | The Deep Dive
Over the years, my family has had big sprawling Passover seders (the ritual meal) that have required folding tables and folding chairs and food prep that my mom would start weeks ahead of time. I recall one year that we were stretched across the backyard of my... by SB Rawz | Apr 3, 2017 | The Deep Dive
Last week, a friend shared her favorite quote with me: Expectation is the mother of all heartache. I thought: Yeah! Right on! Down with expectations! Live in the moment, right? Make decisions based on what we know now while releasing the belief that we can control the... by SB Rawz | Mar 6, 2017 | The Deep Dive
A couple of weeks ago, I rearranged my drawers. I just made a little extra room for my socks, put the outerwear shirts in the drawer next to the sleep shirts, and the jeans in a drawer next to the non-jeans. Little shifts that just made a little more sense than the...