Big Little Wolf's Daily Plate of Crazy

Tantalizing touch
Troubles at work, struggles in your personal life, health concerns – all add to a lagging libido, nudging the desire for desire to drop off the edge of our daily diaries. And wouldn’t we be so much better off if we could rally our feral forces, and indulge in some quality coupling?
For women, there’s [...]

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Last evening I wrote in the quiet. I watched a movie on cable. I read, then wrote some more. And settled slowly into a rhythm of 24 hours of silence. Strangely peaceful silence.
Everything in me unwinds, finally, after a week of being on my own, in this observation of an hour of silence, and then [...]

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It was a first date – very casual – and he was picking me up at my home.  Though he expected one of my sons might be there, he didn’t anticipate what he encountered. My kid opened the door, let my date in, to the view of a tall, attractive man in his underwear, walking [...]

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Oddities 

I woke early, heart racing, dark dreams prickling – my own version of a global thriller, complete with missing mid-century masterpieces, a chase scene through a foreign airport, running for my life across an unknown border, and the face of the enemy in pursuit.
Frankly, I kept waiting for action hero Jason Bourne to pop up. [...]

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If I close my eyes to dream, I must fill the empty pages.
If I close my eyes to dream, I journey to Paris, where I am invisible, and I am seen.
I make my way to the Seine, I walk along its quais and through its crowds, wander north, through jostling neighborhoods toward home, and home [...]

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Recurring dreams? Recurring nightmares?
If our dreams allow us a smile when we wake, then they are good. If our dreams process a problem and offer options for its solution, then they are good. If our dreams provide escape, diversion, possibility and we can carry that positive energy forward into our working days, then they are [...]

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So my kid is up at 4:00 am, Friday morning. Yes, this morning. In the kitchen. Which of course wakes me up, after four blissful hours which possibly could have extended into five. I’m a light sleeper no matter what, and these days, that’s an understatement.
So I pad out to the kitchen (10 steps [...]

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Ah Chéri,
From our window there is all we require: slate rooftops against inky blues at twilight, gulls that caw and dive at dawn, the belly of the alley below as it swells and recedes. I tell myself this sea is a trick of light, sun and shadow on a shuddering of gray, visible waves of [...]

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Makeup monstrosities? Oh yeah. I’m talking collagen and cosmetics. Lipstick overdose. Botox buried in blush. Excess is the word du jour.
Tartini excess at the beauty bar?
Nothing makes a woman look older than too much makeup. But we all know it, right?
Nothing makes a Real Housewife of Orange County look trashier and older than too [...]

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“I want to get married,” he says.
The words are fired off into the air and seem to settle there, stark and defiant, as though some invisible structure of wires and pulleys holds the phrase in place so I cannot turn away. Then each letter tumbles down through the air, disintegrating.
These are special effects. Perhaps I [...]

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