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Childless (By Choice)

January 29, 2013 by D. A. Wolf 27 Comments

Are you a woman who has no children – by choice?

Filed Under: Family Dynamics, Parenting, Women's Issues Tagged With: big questions, cost of raising children, cultural values, divorce, family, gender roles, marriage, motherhood, Parenting, role of women in society, society

Saying Goodbye to 2012: What is Left Unsaid

December 30, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 5 Comments

Reflections on loss, on love, and speaking the words that matter.

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: goodbyes, grieving, Love, new year, New York Times, Nora Ephron, psychology, society, speaking up

Thoughtful Thursday (Resolutions?)

December 27, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 7 Comments

What are you mulling over these days? How to get the job of your dreams? The man or woman of your dreams? Any tiny piece of your dreams while you still have time, however you may clock it? Aren’t we “of a mind” to put our thinking caps on as one year closes and the […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: big questions, divorce, essays, happiness, marriage, Marriage and Divorce, new year, optimism, Parenting, Relationships, society

Once More Into the Brink… What Kids Cost (2012 Edition)

November 16, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 10 Comments

Cost of raising a family? More than you realize.

Filed Under: Life After Divorce, Money Matters, Parenting Tagged With: cost of raising children, midlife, money, New York Times, Parenting, Single Parenting, society, women and money, women's issues

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Coping with Disaster

October 31, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

As information continues to roll in on the devastation from Hurricane Sandy, I couldn’t help but think about the magnitude of the loss that so many are facing. Loss that may hit after the initial shock of the events of this week. I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose everything – the […]

Filed Under: Culture, Health Tagged With: coping with loss, depression, Health, mental health, Morning Musing, psychology, society, stress, stress management

French Advances

October 15, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 10 Comments

French views and news to nudge the Muse.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Politics Tagged With: Culture, education, France, French men, Parenting, Sex, Sexual Politics, sexuality, society

Reality Check: The Power of Positive Thinking

August 6, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 11 Comments

Negative thinking may yield positive results.

Filed Under: Culture, Lifestyle Tagged With: definitions of success, happiness, New York Times, pop culture psychology, positive attitude, positivity, psychology, social issues, society, success

Breaking the Rules

May 4, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

Occasionally breaking the rules is one thing. A pattern of disregard, something else.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Parenting Tagged With: big questions, breaking rules, breaking the rules, fairness doctrine, narcissism, Parenting, parenting teens, personality types, psychology, society, teaching kids life skills, unsung hero

The Plague

October 25, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 9 Comments

From The Plague, by Albert Camus: I see no need to dwell on the manner of loving in our town. The men and women consume each other rapidly in what is called ‘the act of love’, or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality… for lack of time and thinking, people have to […]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Politics, Relationships Tagged With: big questions, classic films, Culture, daily plate of crazy, literature, responsibility, social change one person at a time, society

Teenage Sex At Home?

July 26, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 22 Comments

Teens having sex on the sly, or under your own roof?

Filed Under: Health, Parenting, Sex, Tweens and Teens Tagged With: Parenting, parenting teens, Sex, society, teenage sex, teens and condoms, women's issues

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