by SB Rawz | Aug 17, 2020 | The Deep Dive
A handful of years ago, I asked my mom to recount for me a bit of family lore. It was the kind of story that infuses most families, so deeply interwoven that it doesn’t often occur to us to examine it more closely, to check whether the story was, in fact, woven... by SB Rawz | Jul 20, 2020 | Bigger Badder Life
I read a theory the other day that one answer to the Fermi Paradox – If the math suggests so convincingly that there are other sentient being out there in the universe, where are they? – might be that other civilizations are so advanced that they’ve uploaded their... by SB Rawz | Jun 22, 2020 | The Deep Dive
You might imagine a rubber band. You might imagine a rubber band with two lines on opposite points of it circumference. You might imagine one line represents a feeling of discomfort: Anger, fear, or helplessness, for example. You might imagine that line pressed... by SB Rawz | May 25, 2020 | Our Web of Interconnection
A wee sentence tucked into each of my last two posts, each alluding to the need to address problematic words and behaviors, deserves a little attention today. This is where this conversation often gets to: Okay, I’ve listened deeply to them, I’ve listened into myself,... by SB Rawz | Feb 17, 2020 | Bigger Badder Life
Two words keep repeating in my mind since I heard them in a podcast a number of weeks ago: Ordinary no. The podcast is The Secret Live of Black Women. The interview was with writer/journalist, Bim Adewunmi. Bim was describing an application she both wanted to...