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 18, 2020 | The Deep Dive
Last week, I wrote about listening past others’ challenging words as though it’s easy, a switch to flip. “Ah, yes, now I hear the humanness beneath the reactivity. Jolly good!” Ah, but no. Not in real life. In real life, we have someone else whose reactive shouts for... by SB Rawz | Mar 30, 2020 | The Deep Dive
I am a culinary school dropout. The year after I finished my bachelors in psychology, I enrolled in the local community college for the culinary arts adventure I had been dreaming of since junior year of high school. It took only a handful of weeks for me to become...