Disrupt your living room! However, if you find you need a perfect place to I dunno, put your coffee, go norm core and undisrupt with an edgy coffee table.

If you can do 5 things in a day and one of them is bad, try adding another good thing and hope the bad thing falls off the list! It really can work, but unfortunately New Years resolutions in general give just the tiniest spark of motivation, and unless that gets you through the first couple weeks of building a…

My sustainable sources of happiness are:

Your brain craves stimulation, but easily gets overstimulated. Taking a sec to pay attention to something just a little bit stimulating like walking, or drawing exercising, or small talk, or music or whatever really can give you distance from that overstimulated phone attached monster we all devolve into. Then when…

Progression not regression. Your kids are growing at a crazy rate, and have new skills and facilities developing every day. They learn to get to sleep and stay asleep with one set of facilities, but what happens in 2 weeks when they have a whole different set? They have to learn again. Keep providing the…

It is consistent, but its also dumb. The whole point of tax breaks is to encourage activity that has been shown to give high returns for the country as a whole. Education is among the highest of these. Eliminating a tax break that encourages education, so you can decrease taxes on the wealthy is just trading a high…

In a big engineering corporation:

Houston is the okayest place in the world.

Schools, schools, schools. In Texas, urban school districts have basically been re-segregated (Dallas ISD 4.7% white, Houston ISD 7.6% white) and the quality of the education provided to the majority minority students has suffered just as it did with segregated schools historically. The suburbs (including the…

Cleaning is work. Is the work worth it? Yes! but does that mean its not work? NO. There is no magic that makes cleaning up not work. So, do the work, reap the rewards, or don’t. No one cares except your mom.

Ugh, what an awful feeling it is to hear about this from friends, family or your partner. With miscarriages there is grieving process just like losing a family member. You have to give support and love and attention, as well as space. Also attention and space at the same time. There is something comforting about…

Hi Michelle, thank you for bringing attention to the article as it is very difficult to balance the mother’s health against the baby’s during pregnancy, and is even trickier when it comes to mental health.

“If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right” only ever leads me to rationalize why a job is not worth doing.

Having lost my mother to cancer, I know, it SUCKS. There are no fun happy cancer times. The options are:

Having lost my mother to cancer, I know cancer SUCKS. There are no fun happy cancer times. The options are:

I promise I am not trying to troll, actually to have a discussion, so here is a quote from the abstract of the first paper you mentioned.

I’m sorry but it is not factual to say that:

I definitely agree that it is a complex system, but I firmly believe that calorie intake is the overwhelming deciding factor in determining weight. The normal range of digestive absorption variance is at least an order of magnitude (10x) smaller than what you can vary in caloric intake. If you are looking to lose or…

Just another meaningless buzzword that sounds good. Clean, Natural, even Organic... without any real definition of what those words mean, they just get substituted for “good” and then every marketer slaps it on the box. Saying “you’re fat because you consistently eat more than you burn” doesn’t sell organic natural…

Thank you for this! Very timely with trying to get our 2 year old to eat something other than bread, yogurt and pasta. The one part I think missed out here is texture. My son will eat a variety of tastes but really shies away from things that arent either crunchy or mushy. Anything stringy, chewy or meaty gets…