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A Woman’s Place…

June 4, 2013 by D. A. Wolf 9 Comments

On family dynamics, daily duties, and views of women.

Filed Under: Culture, Family Dynamics, Parenting, Single Moms, Women's Issues Tagged With: effects of unemployment, gender roles, jobs, New York Times, news, rant, single parents, Surviving Recession, women's issues, women's roles

Baking Bread or “Winning” It?

May 25, 2013 by D. A. Wolf 3 Comments

The discussion is vital: women as breadwinners, men as SAHDs. And then?

Filed Under: Family Dynamics, Life After Divorce, Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Single Moms, Women and Money Tagged With: community, connection, dads, effects of unemployment, feminism, gender roles, interpreting data, life after divorce, marriage, SAHDs, single moms, social issues, stay at home moms, work life balance

The Confidence Conundrum

May 3, 2013 by D. A. Wolf 1 Comment

Pondering the puzzle pieces that comprise self-confidence.

Filed Under: Culture, Health Tagged With: aging, confidence, cosmetic surgery, definitions of beauty, effects of unemployment, gender roles, interpreting data, New York Times, psychology, self-confidence, sexuality

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

Your Best of Times, Your Worst of Times

May 20, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 5 Comments

Facing marital challenges and divorce, not always at our best.

Filed Under: Life After Divorce, Relationships Tagged With: breaking rules, breaking the rules, change, divorce, effects of unemployment, Marriage and Divorce, perspective, post-divorce life, Relationships, Single Parenting, whatever life dishes out

When Beliefs Are Broken

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

When belief systems are broken, then what?

Filed Under: Life After Divorce, Lifestyle, Love Tagged With: abuse, betrayal, big questions, divorce, effects of unemployment, emotional abuse, fairness doctrine, infidelity, life after divorce, marriage, Marriage and Divorce, Relationships, trust

Hope Floats

September 30, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 20 Comments

It is a Sandra Bullock movie released in 1998 – Hope Floats – with a predictable plot, but not without its charms. A married mother of a young daughter finds out hubby is cheating and he wants out. As the divorce proceeds, she takes her child and heads home to a small Texas town, where […]

Filed Under: Language, Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Surviving Recession Tagged With: daily plate of crazy, effects of unemployment, emotions, empty nest, hope, managing change, Marriage and Divorce, post-divorce life, real life, whatever life dishes out

Circling

September 20, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 14 Comments

I don’t want to write today. I don’t want to read, to research, to converse, to put on a happy face. I don’t want to shower and dress. I don’t want to pace my rooms, to walk my neighborhood, to clean another goddamn pile, to open the door to the fridge and slam it shut, […]

Filed Under: Dreams, Lifestyle, Surviving Recession Tagged With: burnout, effects of unemployment, empty nest, fatigue, lucid dreaming, midlife, permission to fail, psychology, ramble, real life women, single mothers, Surviving Recession, women over 50

Apathy Into Action

July 16, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 5 Comments

It’s Saturday morning. It’s raining. I’d love to linger in bed and turn my daily writing exercise to flights of fancy, or the latest tales of teenage folly around my little household. But given the discussion this past week – of very real and pressing social ills that affect millions of us – I prefer to point […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Politics, Sexual Politics, Surviving Recession Tagged With: daily plate of crazy, effects of unemployment, family, making a difference, Politics, Sexual Politics, social issues, Surviving Recession, women's issues

Healthy or Unhealthy? Cultural Commentary: A Conversation

July 13, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 19 Comments

“Why should my tax dollars pay for your medical care?” she says. Her blue eyes are piercing against her softly tanned skin. Her eyebrows are raised, and her lips pursed in annoyance. At first I think she’s kidding. But she’s not. She is about thirty, and we know each other casually. She’s healthy, single, in […]

Filed Under: Business, Culture, Health, Politics, Sexual Politics, Surviving Recession Tagged With: big little wolf, challenges in health care, D A Wolf, daily plate of crazy, education, effects of unemployment, Health, health care, men and women, Politics, post-divorce life, rant, Sexual Politics, women's issues

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