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Myths, Marriage, and the Gray Sweater

August 27, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

Myths about marriage. Myths about divorce. Myth misconceptions.

Filed Under: Health, Marriage Tagged With: depression, Health, Marriage and Divorce, mental health, New York Times, real women real life, real women's lives, stigma

Make Hay While the Sun Shines

June 23, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 9 Comments

Make hay while the sun shines. The words pop into my head and I have no idea why, unless it’s the light peeking through the drapes, the deep breath I draw when I know it’s Saturday, and while there are tasks – there are always tasks – I can slow down, just a little, when […]

Filed Under: Language, Lifestyle, Morning Musing Tagged With: achievement, daily plate of crazy, education, fun, happiness, Language, real women's lives, self-care, values, work ethic, work life balance

Orientation

February 8, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 11 Comments

Orientation. Sounds simple. But when life events shake things up…

Filed Under: Health, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Surviving Recession Tagged With: ageing, aging, emotions, empty nest, grief, life after divorce, life events, moving, over 50, over 60, post-divorce life, real life, real women's lives, recession, reinvention, starting over, unemployment, women over 50, women over 60, women's issues

Timeless

September 18, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 5 Comments

The Little Black Dress. The perfect string of pearls. The chilled champagne in a fluted glass, raised in a toast. When it comes to fashion or style, though we want to know what’s in vogue right now, we designate certain looks and activities as timeless. They’re classics. We may also look to the arts – […]

Filed Under: Culture, Fashion & Style, Lifestyle Tagged With: aging gracefully, community, cultural values, daily plate of crazy, Lifestyle, pop culture, ramble, real women's lives, women over 50, women over 60

Dental Dam(n) and Cool Whip

January 4, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 15 Comments

Your eyelids are swollen shut and you’re trying to pry them open and feeling for your glasses which, oddly, aren’t in the place where you put them every damn night but somehow they’ve gone AWOL when you’re running late and you can’t see anyway because (a) you can’t find your glasses and (b) your eyelids […]

Filed Under: Health, Morning Musing, Other Stuff Tagged With: acts of kindness, complete ramble, daily plate of crazy, Morning Musing, post-divorce life, real women's lives

The view from where I sit

September 18, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 11 Comments

It is not the day of her passing, though my mother is much on my mind. She is here, as I pad around the house to the ticking of the wall clock that brings me back to mornings in her kitchen. Today, I write from a chair I rarely use. It is most often the […]

Filed Under: Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: antique porcelain, beauty, big little wolf, biglittlewolf, daily plate of crazy, dailyplateofcrazy, do we ever know our parents?, it takes two hands to hold the mirror steady, memories, mirrors, next generation, personal history, real women, real women's lives, wedding china

Who do you trust?

September 5, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 9 Comments

When I wrote about the film, Closer, I was intrigued by the fine line between honesty and dishonesty, genuine connection and its simulation, and the ways in which we deceive ourselves when we love. There is nothing more fascinating – to me – than adults dealing with each other. Men and women, interacting. The issue […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Relationships Tagged With: aftermath of divorce, big little wolf, big questions, biglittlewolf, daily plate of crazy, dailyplate, dailyplateofcrazy, e-zine, e-zine women, how to rebuild trust when you've been hurt, importance of trust in relationship, lifestyle e-zine, men and women, my crazy life, origin of the word trust, post-divorce trust, real women's lives, rebuilding trust, Relationships, trust, trust your instincts, what is trust?, whatever life dishes out, who do you trust, women's roles

Long nights and true tales

August 20, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 20 Comments

I woke in the middle of the night not feeling well, knowing it was probably nothing but that I’d have to sit it out, and unable to sleep, I decided to do a little reading. I flipped open my laptop, and found an amazing story on msnbc.com, about Huguette Clark, the reclusive 104-year old heiress […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing Tagged With: aging, big little wolf, biglittlewolf, daily plate of crazy, dailyplate, dailyplateofcrazy, Huguette Clark, loneliness, msnbc.com, real women's lives, true tales, weird news

Cake

August 15, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 26 Comments

Yes, there was one more teen party last night. Yes, I heard it. No, I wasn’t annoyed; I managed to sleep five hours anyway, and that’s good enough for the day’s mission: cake. Coffee I’ve been under the weather for a number of days, and I had plans to meet a friend for coffee last […]

Filed Under: Food & Recipes, Lifestyle, Parenting Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf, cake, chocolate cake, coffee and cake, dailyplate, dailyplateofcrazy, dailyplateofcrazy parenting, empty nest, friends since birth, let them eat cake, Parenting, real women's lives, secret to great chocolate cake, secret to great spice cake, spice cake, whatever life dishes out

Sink or Swim

August 14, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 7 Comments

Fond of clichés? Don’t they breeze into our minds and tumble out of our mouths faster than a speeding bullet? Catchy little phrases stick, don’t they? Good for what ails you? A quick fix? Oh yeah – tidy gems to sum up the world’s wisdom, like life isn’t fair, you get what you pay for, […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf, cliches, crazy real life, daily crazy life, daily plate of crazy, dailyplate, dailyplateofcrazy, dailyplateofcrazy life skills, dailyplateofcrazy parenting, life skills, Parenting, parenting teens, real life, real women's lives, sayings, Single Parenting, sink or swim, truisms, whatever life dishes out

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