Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

In addition to the blog posts featured below, you may want to check out Sharon’s Psychology Today blog Mysteries of Consciousness.

  • Letting Go

    Letting Go

    This month Helen Hunt is guest editor over at Felicity Huffman’s What The Flicka?  She’s chosen the theme “Letting Go,” which also happens to be the subject of her new film Ride. My contribution is called “Letting Go of Success,” and you can read it here! Read more

  • The Angel in My Pocket

    The Angel in My Pocket

    When I picked up Sukey Forbes’ new memoir, The Angel in My Pocket, my first thought was, “Oh, another memoir about grief.” It’s not that I don’t appreciate grief-focused memoirs. In fact, they’ve been a lifeline for me in the four years since losing my ex-fiancé. Even though my own loss was due to separation, not death, I’ve found comfort and Read more

  • Connected to the Land

    Connected to the Land

    I hope you will be moved as much as I was by this post from Canadian writer Donna Sinclair. It originally appeared on Wood Lake Publishing’s blog essential-spirituality.com. Read more

  • Evidence for Telepathy in an Autistic Savant

    Evidence for Telepathy in an Autistic Savant

    We’ve all had one or two of those dreams that turn out to be eerily similar to an event we later experience. Or those times when we start thinking about someone right before they call. Some of these episodes are easy to dismiss as coincidences, but other times the correlation is so striking that it Read more

  • A Life in Mud

    A Life in Mud

    There are not many books I’ve read more than once. While my appetite for the written word is pretty much insatiable, I’m generally hungry for something new. Fortunately, this is not as much of a vice in reading as it would be in other spheres of life. But every now and then, a book comes along that inspires in me a Read more

  • Turns Out, Fun Is Essential to Writing

    Turns Out, Fun Is Essential to Writing

    Whether you’re an aspiring or accomplished writer, you’ve likely had moments (or years at a time) when you’ve worried that you just didn’t have what it takes. I certainly have. I’m a very methodical and analytic person, and for a long time, I thought that these personality traits might prevent me from ever producing a compelling piece of Read more

  • The Baltimore Review

    The Baltimore Review

    The Summer 2014 issue of The Baltimore Review is now available online. On its site, you can read not only one of my recent flash nonfiction pieces, “Cop Cars,” but also some excellent poetry and fiction from writers around the country. My favorite pieces from this issue include: Vincent Poturica’s short story “Habte,” about an Eritrean immigrant at a child’s Read more

  • Swedish Lessons

    Swedish Lessons

    My favorite part of reading blogs is discovering extremely gifted writers whose self-published books I might never otherwise have heard of. My most recent ecstatic find is Natalie Burg, author of the hilarious, page-turning memoir Swedish Lessons. An ambitious but slightly directionless 23-year-old fresh out of a soul-crushing romantic relationship, Burg is offered a position as Read more

  • Scandalously Happy

    Scandalously Happy

    I am scandalously happy. The sun is setting in a pink sky, the May breeze is turning slightly cool, and I’m sitting on my front steps gazing at the abandoned field just beyond my front lawn and reveling in this surprising truth that unveiled itself moments ago. Why ‘scandalously’, you ask? Well, because it’s kind of a scandal to be happy in Read more

  • You’re Not as Dumb as All That

    You’re Not as Dumb as All That

    Perhaps you’ve read about this experiment from the 1980s: Subjects were told, “Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations.” Then they were asked to estimate which further statement Read more