by SB Rawz | Jul 25, 2022 | Bigger Badder Life
A couple of weeks ago, we passed the one-year anniversary of having adopted Ella, a red-nosed pit bull mix whose first year and a half were spent at a dog pound, an SPCA shelter, and, for a brief time, a first family who returned her emaciated, ill, and scared. Since... by SB Rawz | Nov 22, 2021 | Our Web of Interconnection
Earlier this month, my nephew turned 22. I sent him a voice recording of me starting to sing Yellow Submarine, catching myself, then singing the five-second micro-Happy Birthday Song. A few hours later, he sent me a text saying he had been at work when he got my... 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 | 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... by SB Rawz | Mar 9, 2020 | The Deep Dive
A couple of winters ago, Theresa and I spent a weekend in a primitive cabin in the middle of nowhere Virginia. It was a little log cabin in a gully by a creek, mostly used by hunters, lit by candles, with a camping stove and propane heater. It was exactly the kind of...