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 | Dec 30, 2019 | Bigger Badder Life
When I was a teen, I got stress headaches. Not every so often but multiple a day for several years. And then one day, I realized that it had been a while since I had had one. A long while. They had departed so gradually that I hadn’t noticed the progression, even... by SB Rawz | Sep 23, 2019 | The Deep Dive
Theresa read me a quote from Anne Frank this morning: “No one has ever become poor by giving.” Frank sure recorded some profound wisdom in her journal, made all the more amazing by the fact that she was only 15 when she died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. For... by SB Rawz | Apr 1, 2019 | The Deep Dive
I can’t tell you exactly what alchemy happened when I was on the TEDx stage in Floyd, Virginia in 2013. I stepped on nervous and excited. I had a moment of utter blankness while the hundred people in the audience held their breath and the however-many people watching... by SB Rawz | Jan 21, 2019 | The Deep Dive
Rip tides. Though there’s some debate about how to best extract yourself from the pull of these currents that whisk swimmers away from shore, the generally agreed-upon method is to first stay calm: Take a deep breath and remind yourself that the current does, indeed,...