Ferida Wolff
Ferida Wolff is author of 17 children’s books and three essay books, her latest being Missed Perceptions: Challenge Your Thoughts Change Your Thinking. Her work appears in anthologies, newspapers, magazines, in seniorwomen.com and in her nature blog, http://feridasbackyard.blogspot.com. A new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul Married Life, contains two of her essays. Visit her at www.feridawolff.com.
Making Movies
I learned how perception creates reality, how our inner understanding programs what is seen in the outer world much as a movie reel projects pictures on a screen. And just now, as I write this, an adult far from babyhood chronologically, do I accept that I am the producer of my own movies. more »
An 80-ish Birthday Party for My Aunt, the Pistol
One of the guests sang a song set to the music of Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof but with personal and irreverent lyrics. My aunt laughed. I didn’t get all the references but I laughed, too. I figured that anything outré about my aunt must be true and no doubt funny. more »
Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too:
We also find that popular people are less likely to get divorced, divorcees have denser social networks, and they are much more likely to remarry other divorcees. more »
Our Intertwined Lives
I asked him if he was disappointed that I wasn’t a son. He looked at me surprised and said, "You are the best son I never had ... and a wonderful daughter." more »
