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Collision Course: Live to Work, Work to Live

September 10, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 17 Comments

Your priorities when it comes to the work-life juggle? A collision of conflicts?

Filed Under: Business, Lifestyle, Surviving Recession, Work-Life Tagged With: big questions, career, definitions of success, Do you work to live or live to work, New York Times, reinvention, work ethihc, work life balance

Show Me the Money

August 24, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

Women MUST care about money. Women, compensation, negotiating, money management.

Filed Under: Life After Divorce, Sexual Politics, Surviving Recession, Women and Money Tagged With: definitions of success, gender roles, jobs, life after divorce, money, negotiating pay, post-divorce life, single moms, single mothers, teaching kids life skills, women and money, women's issues

Chillax: The (Adolescent?) Art of Stress Management

July 23, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 6 Comments

Sometimes our kids offer wisdom: Relax. But does it apply to money stress, parenting stress, job stress?

Filed Under: Health, Parenting, Surviving Recession Tagged With: cost of raising children, debt stress, Marriage and Divorce, midlife, money worries, New York Times, parenting college students, parenting teens, post-divorce life, stress management, whatever life dishes out, women's health

Parenting Panacea (What’s Next?)

July 15, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 11 Comments

Hyperparenting. Helicoptering. Parenting Styles vs Common Sense.

Filed Under: Parenting, Surviving Recession Tagged With: cost of raising children, economy, education, motherhood, New York Times, Parenting, parenting advice, parenting college students, parenting teens, single moms, Single Parenting, teaching kids life skills

Mini Monster

July 9, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 12 Comments

Ah, the Big House. The one that drove me (and no doubt the neighbors) crazy for… let’s see… 12 months? 18 months? Oh, it was a seemingly endless period of time as the noise, mess, and general disturbance was unavoidable. Daily. Then there was the nail in my tire requiring (expensive) repair – hardly the […]

Filed Under: Culture, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Surviving Recession Tagged With: architecture, big questions, cultural values, daily plate of crazy, family, greed, home ownership, Morning Musing, older homes, personal style, values, values in contemporary society

The Invisible Middle?

June 24, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 3 Comments

Thoughts on politics as the middle age segment swells.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Politics, Surviving Recession Tagged With: ageing, aging, aging gracefully, middle-age, midlife, New York Times, social issues, Surviving Recession, women and jobs, women and money

Sleep Over Sex, Money Mess as Cause of Stress

May 22, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 7 Comments

Stress. Sleeplessness. Sex? Forget it!

Filed Under: Health, Politics, Sex, Surviving Recession Tagged With: effects of unemployment, emotional eating, gender roles, money worries, post-divorce life, Relationships, Sex, superwoman myth, women and body image, women and self-esteem, women's health

Sunday Funnies

April 8, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 6 Comments

One of my fondest memories as a child is of my father reading the paper, especially on the weekend, and chuckling over the comics which we referred to as the Sunday Funnies. My own attachment to the New York Times these days – and the very tactile pleasure of slowing down to the Real Life […]

Filed Under: Culture, Surviving Recession Tagged With: humor, taxes, writing

Dear Me: Get Out Of My Way

March 27, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 15 Comments

Dear Me, I don’t want to do what I don’t want to do. But I do. I know. It’s called responsibility. It’s called adulthood. Sometimes, it’s called survival. But if I only do what I don’t want to do, I’m tired and I’m cranky; my imagination stalls and my hopelessness fills out its contours all […]

Filed Under: Language, Morning Musing, Surviving Recession Tagged With: ageing, aging, depression, discipline, emotions, fatigue, letters, midlife, motivation, restless leg syndrome, self sabotage, Surviving Recession, women's real lives, writing, writing exercise

Going Nowhere… Slowly

March 12, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 12 Comments

Drifters, grifters and gifters?

Filed Under: Morning Musing, Politics, Surviving Recession Tagged With: children of divorce, cost of raising children, divorce, education, empty nest, Generation Y, Marriage and Divorce, Parenting, parenting college students, parenting styles, Single Parenting, Surviving Recession

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