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Moment of silence

June 6, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 8 Comments

Last evening I wrote in the quiet. I watched a movie on cable. I read, then wrote some more. And settled slowly into a rhythm of 24 hours of silence. Strangely peaceful silence. Everything in me unwinds, finally, after a week of being on my own, in this observation of an hour of silence, and […]

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“I can’t change. I am who I am.” Say what??

June 5, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 17 Comments

Do you believe you can change? Do you want to change – if not in a major way, then subtly – for instant gratification or something more enduring? Let’s see. There’s my messy kitchen. My disastrous closets. Oh yes, I can think of a few things I’d like to change. May I borrow from the classics […]

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Home Alone

May 31, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 18 Comments

It is a long weekend in the States. A holiday. Memorial Day. For some, it is a day spent in realization of this occasion. But for most, this weekend announces the arrival of summer vacations, of travel, of family time. Carefree or carefully constructed schedules. A break in routine. A break, of any sort. And […]

Filed Under: Morning Musing, Parenting, Travel Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf, crazy daily life, daily plate of crazy, empty nest, France, health and well-being, home alone, need a summer vacation, Parenting, Single Parenting, soaking tub, stress management, taking a break, Travel, vacation getaways, vacation state of mind, whatever life dishes out, women's lives

Going the distance

May 27, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 14 Comments

Ground to cover Yesterday blurs over in my mind already; so much ground was covered. From one part of the city to another, like a yo-yo, to and from the house. Eventually, to the airport at some distance away. The hours marched along as they had to, simultaneously swift and sluggish: laundry, errands, packing, more […]

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Would you dare to quit your job?

May 26, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 23 Comments

A particular news item caught my eye early today: As the job market begins to loosen up, human resource managers might increasingly be surprised by an announcement from employees they haven’t heard in a while: “I quit.” Catchy quote, isn’t it? And hopeful. It appeared in The Wall Street Journal, as reported on Yahoo Finance. […]

Filed Under: Business, Lifestyle, Surviving Recession Tagged With: ageism in the workplace, big little wolf, biglittlewolf, career, career changes, crazy daily life, daily life, daily plate of crazy, dailyplate, dailyplateofcrazy, dailyplateofcrazy women, dailyplateofcrazy work-life balance, Do you work to live or live to work, how do you feel about your job, job market, quit your job, recession economy, Surviving Recession, whatever life dishes out, women's issues, women's lives, women's work life, work life balance, would you quit your job

Monday Morning Moaning. Complaint Department is Open.

May 24, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 27 Comments

Monday, Monday  The staff of the Complaint Department has been on sabbatical for a few weeks. But – it is Monday. And who likes Monday morning? Who doesn’t have a complaint or two or three? Who doesn’t want – or need – a place to bitch? What better time than when we’re all dragging – […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf, complaint department, daily life of women, daily plate of crazy, dailyplate, dailyplateof crazy just life, dailyplateofcrazy, family life, French Open 2010, just life, monday morning, Parenting, real life, stress, whatever life dishes out, women's lives

Why I’m Fond of Isopropyl Alcohol

May 19, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 20 Comments

Oddities  I woke early, heart racing, dark dreams prickling – my own version of a global thriller, complete with missing mid-century masterpieces, a chase scene through a foreign airport, running for my life across an unknown border, and the face of the enemy in pursuit. Frankly, I kept waiting for action hero Jason Bourne to pop […]

Filed Under: Dreams, Lifestyle, Love, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf, broken things, cleaning, daily life, daily plate of crazy, declutter, how to use isopropyl alcohol, kitchen reorganization, organized life, Parenting, parenting teens, raising sons, Single Parenting, storage challenges, whatever life dishes out, women's lives

Can you be bought?

May 11, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 17 Comments

Everything has its price I’ve spent days, weeks really, maneuvering through objects and obstacles. In my little den. The jammed office. My bedroom, the living room, a wretched corner in the kitchen. I am looking. Taking silent inventory. Running numbers in my head. I toss aside the memories as best I can. Memories of marriage […]

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Rescuing dreams

May 10, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 40 Comments

There is something I am not seeing. There must be. I am unable to fight back the waves. I erect a barrier, and it holds, briefly. Then it crumbles, and I am knocked down and submerged. I pull myself up and rebuild, as another wall of water rises beneath a deceptive sky. And I am […]

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Mini-Mom moves mountain! (Splendid son smiles.)

April 29, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 20 Comments

Screw Sisyphus. What’s the best way to push a boulder up a mountain? Just say no. Mountain? What mountain? More than one way to skin a cat I’m in a mixing metaphors mood, a never-say-die frame of mind. Sweetly satisfied and smiling, though the hours ahead are not without significant challenges. (As have been the […]

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