Big Little Wolf's Daily Plate of Crazy

The happiness industry. Come on. Admit it. It is an industry. There’s plenty of money to be made if you tout the latest top ten tips, the secret How-To, the glorious and meandering path to 21st century Happiness. With a capital H.

Think I’m kidding?
Google “happiness books.” Go ahead. Too busy thinking happy thoughts? I’ve done [...]

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Do you think like a man?

Men do not equivocate. They do not couch their opinions in language that weakens the message. Women acquire softened speech, a habit of qualifying, and it pervades thought, feeling, and perception.
I am a woman. Yet I do not equivocate in my choice of words, my body language, or my decision-making. [...]

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So what’s up with the pregnant man?
Frankly, I’m a little tired of opening my email lately, and getting a feed that includes mention of “pregnant man expecting third child.”
When I first saw that headline (how could it not catch your eye?), I believe it was via the Huffington Post. I couldn’t help myself. I clicked [...]

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It’s Friday. Where’s my paycheck?
I am a divorced, full-time parent, who also seeks work and has been doing so for more than a year, since the most recent layoffs – two, nearly simultaneously. I was working a corporate full-time contractor job (marketing writing) and a freelance journalism job. I managed both around parenting my boys. [...]

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Women in the baby blur
You know that blur that occurs after (most) women have babies? And they don’t have nannies to help, or nearby family stepping in on a regular basis, or maybe they do, but the reality of the days and nights is a growing fuzziness, a stream of sleeplessness and round-the-clock activity?
You [...]

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Heidi Montag – typical American girl?

Anything to be famous? To be a pop star? I don’t buy it. Heidi Montag, a (previously) beautiful 23-year old reality TV star on The Hills, now “improved” by 10 cosmetic surgery procedures.
Is this what our culture is becoming? A 23-year old who is (was?) lovely, who undergoes 10 [...]

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Why must we marry?
Scandalous little question, isn’t it? Flies in the face of convention! After all, we’re past the 60s and early 70s. We’ve tossed away our peace symbols and sitar music; am I proposing free love? Romantic anarchy?
Hardly. But yesterday’s discussion of Mr. Right and Mr. Good Enough sparked more than a little conversation [...]

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Violence shocks us when it comes at the hands of a woman. Yet some women are violent, and aggression is part of human nature. Most of us learn to curtail it; we reserve it for self-defense or the protection of our loved ones. But as children – and particularly for boys – those natural inclinations [...]

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Did you get lucky this week?
Or should I say, did you score? Did you hook up? Or are you more comfortable if I ask if you made love?
Whatever you call it, great sex is great sex, right? Not exactly? Then do our distinctions in terminology serve us, or complicate matters?
When it comes to sex and [...]

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Three little words – you know the ones. We all want to hear them. We all want to say them. Those three little words are spun, sung, whispered and wished for. They are immortalized on film, they monopolize our music, and they pump blood through our most lauded literature.
So why is saying “I love you” [...]

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