Big Little Wolf's Daily Plate of Crazy

Two nights ago I mixed my first martini, ever. It was cool. It was hot. It was dirty.
One slosh of vermouth. Three similar sloshes of vodka. A little olive brine, straight from the jar. Crushed ice (shaken and stirred?).
Okay. Did I ever say I mixed martinis like a seasoned bartender? Trust me. It was [...]

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There’s good news and bad news. Oh, I won’t even begin to discuss the state of the BP oil spill, our lagging economy, not to mention my pitiful personal life. But there’s still a cornucopia of good news – offset of course, by weird news (at the very least), and yes, bad news. But may [...]

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“You’re going where?” I ask.
“Brussels, Paris, then Rennes and maybe Brest,” he says. 
It’s my 18-year old on the phone from Europe. My son the factory worker, my son the office worker, my son the engineer-in-training, with a touch of mad scientist thrown in. Curious about everything. Vibrant and adventurous. My son, calling last evening, [...]

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Do you believe you can change? Do you want to change – if not in a major way, then subtly – for instant gratification or something more enduring?

Let’s see. There’s my messy kitchen. My disastrous closets. Oh yes, I can think of a few things I’d like to change. May I borrow from the classics of [...]

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I took a day off yesterday. More precisely, I took the afternoon and evening off. To flirt.
It’s something I don’t do often enough. Flirtation is an art form, and it requires practice. Besides, I needed a taste of the outside world, its color and aroma, the adult world. I live the writer’s life, isolated in [...]

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Yesterday was fabulous. I went out. Without my laptop, without a plan, and not very far from home. After a week of endless parenting duties and a devilish dose of stress, I finished my morning writing, closed the computer, grabbed cute shoes and made a beeline for… wherever I might end up.

Sex and the [...]

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Are love and sex ever out of style?
Hardly.
Nor do they cease to seize our attention. And that was certainly the case for me in two articles I read this week. The first appeared a few days ago, offering tips to combat aging, and the second was on yahoo this morning – an interpretation of recent [...]

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River. Apple. Banjo. Sparrow. Diva Muffin?
These are just a few of the odd celebrity names we might come across as we consume our daily pop culture media. What do you think? Would you do that to your kid? Or should I say “Kyd,” as in Kyd  Duchovny (Tea Leoni and David Duchovny’s son)? Or the [...]

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I need a new job title. Irritant. Possibly – Irritant Extraordinaire. And if the Louboutin fits…
The “Irritant” Job Description

What’s involved? Actual job duties? Here is a partial list (ADA and FDA-approved): cooking, cleaning, coercing; mega mountains of laundry, avoiding aforementioned laundry; counseling (whether the participant is willing or not), coaxing (a word or [...]

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Pizza for breakfast
When Saturday begins the springtime break,
And teens migrate to beaches for fun fare,
Parents worry that the kids will flake;
Still, possessing solo time is rare.
Mornings, there is little chance to think,
(True, for me, this long and blurry week),
Empty fridge and dishes in the sink -
Ah, leftovers now perhaps to tweak?
If possibly some Pillsbury to [...]

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