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Rich Kids, Big Payoffs, Life Lessons

May 31, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 9 Comments

There’s no way I could ignore this news item on son of Sean (Diddy) Combs, who was reportedly awarded a full ride to UCLA, to the tune of $54,000/year. Justin Combs earned his merit scholarship, just like any other kid. Shouldn’t we reward those who work hard for what their brains and / or sweat […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: big questions, cost of raising children, daily plate of crazy, education, financing college, Parenting, parenting college students, Single Parenting

Regression Depression

May 25, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 16 Comments

One college student home, the other not. A teen plus fridge plus car keys equals what? He sleeps ’til two then eats, then since it’s hot, He’s schmoozing, cruising, sitting on his butt… However I have told him it’s okay, He’s weathered countless pressures many months. I know he needs the sleep he stores away; […]

Filed Under: Language, Lifestyle, Parenting Tagged With: bad poetry, cost of raising children, empty nest, lost keys, Parenting, parenting college students, poetry therapy, psychology, silly verse, Single Parenting, sonnet, teenage driving, teenage parties, terse verse

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

Midlife Mother Musings

January 5, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 15 Comments

In the new year, we allow ourselves greater latitude in contemplation, in resetting direction, in capitalizing on the sense of a clean slate to start fresh. This is a time for finding the courage to look at ourselves and our families with a clear eye. I am pondering what it means to be an older […]

Filed Under: Older Moms, Parenting Tagged With: cost of raising children, dating over 50, divorce, elder care, family, midlife, midlife dating, older mothers, older women, Parenting, parenting teens, Single Parenting, solo parenting

Where The Boys Are

September 14, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 18 Comments

It’s not that empty nest doesn’t have its advantages; it does. I worked on my monthly budget last evening. The straight-off-the-top out-of-pocket expenses that I can now eliminate are significant. Very significant. Which makes it crystal clear that the estimates of $1,000/month per child (to raise them) are – or were – very low, in […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting Tagged With: cost of raising children, daily plate of crazy, empty nest, Parenting, Single Parenting

Another Day, Another Kid?

September 6, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 18 Comments

For a moment I actually considered it. Scratch that. For five moments I considered it. I admit I’d spent the day in a perpetual state of “weepy,” particularly since I unearthed a stack of Polaroids of my younger son from a decade ago. Cue the eye leakage. The occasional heaving sob. More eye leakage. Then […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Love, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: cost of raising children, daily plate of crazy, empty nest, money matters, Parenting, problem solving, Single Parenting

Does Watching Television Shorten Your Life?

August 20, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 13 Comments

Don’t you just love the tidbits you pick up through social media? I couldn’t resist reading this one last evening – an article on how television shortens our life span. Except of course, it isn’t that TV shortens your life span. There is no causation to that effect; it’s the association – a connection or […]

Filed Under: Culture, Food & Recipes, Health, Lifestyle, Parenting, Surviving Recession Tagged With: cost of raising children, daily plate of crazy, depression, Food & Recipes, Health, healthy food, interpreting data, nutrition, post-divorce life, Surviving Recession

That Elusive Work-Life Balance – Dream On?

June 30, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 14 Comments

Work-life balance. Possible or not?

Filed Under: Business, Culture, Parenting Tagged With: cost of raising children, education, family, Parenting, women's issues, work life balance

Coming Out of the Closet

May 22, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 23 Comments

Roller-coaster moods. Stomach in knots. Can’t eat. What could it be? Hormones? Nope. One week to go until all the exams are over, and then comes graduation. I’m worried about logistics (the ex coming to town) – and of course, I want everything to go well for my son. I need my therapy: chocolate, Paris, […]

Filed Under: Chaussures, Fashion & Style, Parenting Tagged With: cost of raising children, fashion, organizing, Parenting, post-divorce life, shoes, Single Parenting, style

My Son, the Office Worker

June 21, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 25 Comments

He’d managed to get his dirty clothes washed. Finally. But it took a phone call to his grandparents who live about an hour away. I imagine my son convincing his grandfather to fetch him, driving from their small town to the big city, and then back to their home for a family weekend of discussion […]

Filed Under: College Kids, Parenting, Surviving Recession, Tweens and Teens Tagged With: cost of raising children, my son the office worker, Parenting, parenting college students, parenting teens, parenting young adults, raising teens, real women real life, recession, recessionary economy, Single Parenting, women's roles

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