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Do You Over-Complicate Your Life?

July 19, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 10 Comments

Life is complicated. Sometimes, we’re the cause.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Relationships Tagged With: control, emotions, keep it simple, planning, post-divorce life, psychology, Relationships, simple style, single moms, stress management, women's issues, work life balance

Jane on Jane, and the Value of YES

May 23, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 11 Comments

Thank you, Women’s Voices for Change, for the shout-out to Emmy Award-winning actor Jane Lynch and her 2012 commencement speech at Smith College. It’s a funny and inspiring twenty minutes (see below), filled with humor and smarts from this multi-talented dynamo. I strongly recommend that you watch and listen, not only enjoying Ms. Lynch’s wit, […]

Filed Under: Culture, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Sexual Politics Tagged With: ageing, aging, aging gracefully, celebrities, change, daily plate of crazy, fear, planning, taking risk, women over 50, women's issues, women's lives, women's roles

No Turning Back

June 6, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 10 Comments

When I first read this article on why keeping your options open is less satisfying than making irreversible decisions, I was shaking my head. No, no, and no. I’m good at decision-making, yet I love having alternatives, not to mention contingency plans. But I persisted with the article (despite my own resistance), and like its […]

Filed Under: Culture, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Relationships Tagged With: daily plate of crazy, decision-making, life events, life skills, marriage, Marriage and Divorce, planning, psychology, whatever life dishes out

At Loose Ends

June 3, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 22 Comments

Perhaps it’s the same for marathoners. For recent college graduates. For prize winners of any sort. I distinctly remember feeling this way twenty years ago, in the days and weeks following my wedding. Months of planning and effort had yielded the desired outcome and after the excitement, the commotion, and the relief of having gotten […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting, Relationships Tagged With: daily plate of crazy, planning, real life, Relationships, routine, whatever life dishes out

Getting Down to Business

February 26, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 16 Comments

Work ethic is one thing. Never enjoying success is another.

Filed Under: Culture, Parenting, Tweens and Teens, Work-Life Tagged With: definitions of success, life skills, Parenting, parenting college students, parenting teens, planning, romance, setting goals, teaching kids life skills

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

October 14, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 17 Comments

You don’t know if your printer will crash when you only allotted five minutes to pump out a handful of pages. You don’t know if when you grab the backup computer, its operating system will crank into update mode, and stay that way for twenty minutes. You don’t know if it will storm when you […]

Filed Under: Business, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: Business, contingency planning, life skills, Murphy's Law, planning, teaching kids life skills, time management skills

Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans…

October 9, 2009 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

Never assume. It’s one of the rules I live by. Never assume. It has served me well. But now and then, I forget that dictum that’s opened doors, helped make wise decisions, and kept me a little more prepared for an unknown future. After all, the future is always unknown. John Lennon said it: “Life […]

Filed Under: Morning Musing, Parenting, Surviving Recession Tagged With: never assume, parenting teens, planning, positive attitude, raising teens, Single Parenting

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