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100%. We bought a house because we wanted to be able to adjust our home to our family and lifestyle and we both like futzing around with homeowner stuff like repairing things and h…

There is an ever-expanding list of maintenance tasks depending on the age of the house and its systems, all with different periodicities. A roof will typically not need to be repla…

I feel this pain. I grew up in what I thought were great public schools and am a big believer that public school is a fundamental institution that should raise the floor for societ…

The simplest version of this problem involves a "potential barrier." Another loose classical analogy here is considering a ball rolling towards a hill. Everyone knows from experien…

To add to this, I've liked the Room & Board furniture I've purchased as well. It's pretty simple design-wise, but solid wood, American-made (if you care about things like that), an…

For sure. Certainly once she did start going back to work and pumping at the office, it was less "fun" - the pumping room wasn't the most comfortable, she had to do it a lot more a…

Not disagreeing with the point of this comment, but just as an aside, pumping is something that even mothers who are on leave do. Speaking from personal experience as the dad, I wa…

One of the first papers I read in this area was very interesting in this regard ( https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2017-1.0-Berk... ). I think the challenge is that a…