by SB Rawz | Apr 27, 2020 | The Deep Dive
People occasionally compliment me for being patient. It makes me giggle. When I tell Theresa or my mom about those compliments, they giggle, too. Patience is most certainly not one of my superpowers. I practice it, though. I practice noticing when my patience is... 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... by SB Rawz | Mar 2, 2020 | Bigger Badder Life
Last week reminded me rather starkly that wisdom and information are often very different things, and that one invites greater openness while the other could use some well-placed blinders strapped on. See, first there was the movie iteration of The Call of the... by SB Rawz | Dec 12, 2019 | Our Web of Interconnection
“I am brown and you are peach.” Last month, I sat at a table at a community dinner and listened to a 5th grader tell this story of a conversation – confrontation, really – she had in 1st grade. She didn’t tell us what led up to the teacher’s insistence... by SB Rawz | Aug 27, 2018 | The Deep Dive
Driving to a networking meeting early one morning in January, I saw two kids standing at the side of the road, waiting for the school bus. The little girl was swinging her book bag in an arc as wide as her arm would allow while the boy stood stark still, a look of...
