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Beauty as Asset: Are You Taking Advantage?

July 10, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 6 Comments

She didn’t realize that I was watching. She was in her thirties, blonde, with black eyeliner and mascara expertly applied. She had an upturned nose, and a bright, wide smile. She was trim, yet curvy, and seemed comfortable in her skin. I noticed her feet. They were perfectly pedicured, her toe nails painted hot pink, […]

Filed Under: Fashion & Style, Lifestyle, Sexual Politics Tagged With: aging gracefully, beauty, definitions of beauty, older women, whatever life dishes out, women and beauty, women and society, women's issues, women's roles

Discipline

July 3, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 9 Comments

It is a holiday weekend in the US. Families are gathering, preparing picnics, watching Wimbledon (as I will be, shortly) or their other favorite sports. They’re preparing for foot races under a sizzling sun, for fireworks in the local park, for unwinding. They are slowing down. Pulling in. Taking a few days off. I am […]

Filed Under: Health, Lifestyle, Parenting Tagged With: big questions, discipline, Failure to thrive, life choices, life skills, Parenting, real women real life, routine, Single Parenting, success my way, whatever life dishes out, women's lives, women's roles, writing, writing daily discipline

Shower Shockers, Water Worries

June 30, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 18 Comments

Shower shockers Who doesn’t do some of their best thinking in the shower? And who doesn’t recall the terrifying shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller, Psycho? Janet Leigh is unwinding after a harried day of larceny, an eerie encounter with a creepy character, and is lulled as she finally cleans up, letting her guard […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Parenting Tagged With: 1960 Hitchcock Psycho, big little wolf, big questions, biglittlewolf, crazy wolf blog, daily plate of crazy, dailyplateofcrazy, dailyplateofcrazy women, importance of asking why, Marriage and Divorce, real life women, shower scene Psycho, thinking in the shower, whatever life dishes out, women and reinvention, women's lives, women's roles

Why We Sweat the Small Stuff

June 24, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 23 Comments

When the small stuff adds up…

Filed Under: Culture, Parenting, Single Moms Tagged With: gender roles, life after divorce, living alone, men's roles, Parenting, parenting teens, psychology, real women real life, Single Parenting, stress management, whatever life dishes out, women's roles

The Best Laid Plans

June 22, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 16 Comments

Our best laid plans? Life has other ideas.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting Tagged With: best laid plans, big questions, good intentions, Parenting, Single Parenting, whatever life dishes out, women's lives, women's roles

My Son, the Office Worker

June 21, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 25 Comments

He’d managed to get his dirty clothes washed. Finally. But it took a phone call to his grandparents who live about an hour away. I imagine my son convincing his grandfather to fetch him, driving from their small town to the big city, and then back to their home for a family weekend of discussion […]

Filed Under: College Kids, Parenting, Surviving Recession, Tweens and Teens Tagged With: cost of raising children, my son the office worker, Parenting, parenting college students, parenting teens, parenting young adults, raising teens, real women real life, recession, recessionary economy, Single Parenting, women's roles

Making Excuses

June 7, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 17 Comments

Setting goals you can’t seem to meet? Are you fighting to attain a dress size? Looking to lose extra pounds and never quite making your goal weight? Your “skinny jeans” make a mockery of your daily diet and your self-esteem. You visit your closet nostalgically, running your fingers over jackets and blouses that once made […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Parenting, Sexual Politics Tagged With: definitions of success, health and well-being, Parenting, psychology, pursuing dreams, self sabotage, self-esteem, self-image, setting goals, Single Parenting, success my way, well being, whatever life dishes out, women's roles

“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 […]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Language, Lifestyle Tagged With: belief in change, Bethenny Frankel, Bewitched, big little wolf, big little wolf blog, biglittlewolf, can people change, clean up, crazy women, daily crazy blog, daily crazy life, daily plate of crazy, dailyplate, dailyplateofcrazy, dailyplateofcrazy entertainment, de-clutter, getting along with others, humor, I am who I am, I can't change, I Dream of Jeannie, interpersonal skills, jill zaren, organized life, pop culture, power of language, Reality TV, rhny, RHNY gossip, self awareness, whatever life dishes out, women's lives, women's roles

Sex and the City 2: Too Much, and Not Enough

May 29, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 14 Comments

Sex and the City 2. Thumbs up or thumbs down? I’ll leave it to the experts with their proclamations of yeah or nay. And I will repeat what I said after viewing the movie. I was delighted to spend a few hours with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, Miranda and the gang. Yet I was disappointed. I’ll […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Fashion & Style, Movies Tagged With: cougars, designer fashion, dressing your age, movies, sex and the age issue, Sex and the City, the age issue, women's roles

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 […]

Filed Under: Morning Musing, Parenting, Travel Tagged With: big little wolf, biglittlewolf, daily crazy blog, daily plate of crazy, dailyplate, dailyplate travel, dailyplateofcrazy, dailyplateofcrazy travel, going the distance in parenting, Parenting, real life women, Single Parenting, teens traveling to Europe, Travel, travel to Brussels, travel to Europe, travel to Paris, whatever life dishes out, women's lives, women's roles

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