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Why Is Style Important?

October 13, 2015 by D. A. Wolf 7 Comments

Why fashion and style matter more than we may think.

Filed Under: Fashion, Fashion & Style, Style Tagged With: colors, confidence, fashion, fun, identity, moods, personal style, psychology, society, style, women and identity, women and self-image

The Importance of Belonging

November 4, 2014 by D. A. Wolf 2 Comments

Do your online communities offer insight into your need for belonging?

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: asking for help, community, identity, online communities, psychology, well being, women and identity

Your First Sexual Experience

January 1, 2014 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

We idealize the first sexual encounter. Should we be discussing our “first” with more honesty?

Filed Under: Sex Tagged With: essays, identity, memories, psychology, real women real life, Sex, sex series, women and identity

Through the Looking Glass

May 8, 2013 by D. A. Wolf 16 Comments

A necessary outing, a pleasant surprise, and reflections on reflections – in bright, resolute colors.

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: aging, chronic sleeplessness, friendship, insomnia, mother daughter relationships, mothers day, real women real life, women and identity

Dating Decisions, Financial Finagling

February 2, 2013 by D. A. Wolf 16 Comments

When it comes to dating and marriage, money is no small matter.

Filed Under: Dating, Life After Divorce, Women and Money, Women's Issues Tagged With: 3Plus International, careers, dating, dating over 40, dating over 50, dating over 60, life after divorce, online dating, self-esteem, women and identity, women and money

Dumbing Down

December 7, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 19 Comments

Not a simple issue. Not a way to get what you want.

Filed Under: Women's Issues Tagged With: dating, education, gender roles, nerdy guys, people pleasing, psychology, Relationships, smart is sexy, women and identity

Legos and a Purple Sky

October 27, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 6 Comments

I am remarkably, astonishingly, uncharacteristically asleep for 15 hours – peaceful then flailing, waking only for moments then sleeping again. I am memorizing dreams of revisiting Boston and New York, and there are other places I am touching down but I cannot precisely pinpoint them. I have spent these extraordinary hours in decorating competitions alongside […]

Filed Under: Dreams Tagged With: careers, Dreams, empty nest, Parenting, parenting college students, women and identity, women and money, writing, writing from dream

In Your Face

July 24, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 7 Comments

I like different. I like innovative. I’m a fan of the quirky, the eccentric, the expression of individuality. In Your Face? Not so much, but at certain stages in life we all have identity issues, something to prove to ourselves (or others), and we assert our individuality in various ways – occasionally more stridently than […]

Filed Under: Fashion & Style Tagged With: dating after divorce, dress for success, dress your age, Fashion & Style, French lingerie, identity, parenting teens, post-divorce life, shoes, tattoos, women and identity

Women on Women (And the War Continues)

June 21, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 18 Comments

In-fighting on “having it all,” or a legitimate discussion?

Filed Under: Culture, Parenting, Politics, Women's Issues Tagged With: feminism, having it all, single mothers, Single Parenting, women and identity, women and motherhood, women's issues, women's roles, work life balance

Surprise, Surprise

May 5, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

No one likes getting caught with their pants down. Well. No one I know, anyway. No one likes being wakened suddenly out of a sound sleep – certainly not by a falling tree, a screaming child, a blaring alarm clock when you thought you could sleep in. No one likes unpleasant surprises, the ones that […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: big little wolf, communication style, communication styles, D A Wolf, daily plate of crazy, first impressions, personality types, public face vs private self, real life, self-examination, Single Parenting, social media, surprises, women and identity

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