List: Life Advice | Curated by Mary DeVries

Oct 27, 2022
64 stories
Life Advice
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Age of Empathy
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Mary DeVries
Lower Your Standards and Live Your Best LifeLet me be proof that settling for good enough is good for you
Sep 22, 2022
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Sep 22, 2022
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Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age
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Mary DeVries
The Brown Sugar is Multiplying Behind My BackTackling my pantry before a major move
Sep 26, 2022
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Sep 26, 2022
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Better Humans
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Mary DeVries
The Best Game to Play at Family Reunions or Other Multigenerational GatheringsThis simple game will entertain all ages. Play at your own risk.
Sep 27, 2022
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Sep 27, 2022
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What is the Best Way to Help People During A Tragedy?Hint: the answer isn’t to send them your stretched-out sweater with a small hole.
Mar 5, 2022
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Mar 5, 2022
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Mind Cafe
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Mary DeVries
A Helpful Happiness Hack for When the World is Spinning Out of ControlSmall gestures of kindness brighten your day and someone else’s.
Jan 9, 2022
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Jan 9, 2022
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Counter Arts
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Mary DeVries
I Was Wrong. You Should Always Pack More UnderwearIn which I eat crow. Which is better than eating my shorts, especially since I didn’t pack enough.
Oct 27, 2021
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Oct 27, 2021
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An Injustice!
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Mary DeVries
I Love Computers But I Don’t Trust ThemWhy we need to be the people using the machine not being used by it
Oct 29, 2021
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Oct 29, 2021
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Mind Cafe
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Mary DeVries
Which is Safer: Fish Nibbling Away Your Dead Skin or a Traditional Pedicure?We are very bad at assessing risk
Sep 30, 2021
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Sep 30, 2021
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In
Better Humans
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Mary DeVries
Parents Need Our Support. Here’s How We Can Help Instead of Hurt.It costs little to give parents the benefit of the doubt and go out of our way to be supportive and encouraging where we can.
Oct 1, 2021
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Oct 1, 2021
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An Injustice!
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Mary DeVries
We Protect Our Children From All the Wrong Things and Set Them up for Abuse in Other WaysLet’s prepare children to be adults with healthy boundaries
Oct 12, 2021
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Oct 12, 2021
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Writers’ Blokke
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Mary DeVries
Five Inspiring Quotes from Elon Musk I Totally Disagree WithAnd five bonus ones I think are sorta cool
Sep 23, 2021
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Sep 23, 2021
6
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Better Humans
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Mary DeVries
How to Teach Yourself Practically Anything for FreeThere has never been a better time to be self-taught
Sep 9, 2021
Sep 9, 2021
In
Better Humans
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Mary DeVries
How I Remodeled My House Cheaply With No Training and Only a Handful of ToolsTwo secrets to my success: YouTube and knowing when to call in the professionals.
Aug 10, 2021
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Aug 10, 2021
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Better Humans
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Mary DeVries
What Matters Most to You? Here’s How to Find Out.Using hypothetical questions to figure out what you really value
Aug 6, 2021
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Aug 6, 2021
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Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age
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Mary DeVries
Do Only Old People Sort Laundry Anymore?The things you learn on Twitter.
Aug 3, 2021
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Aug 3, 2021
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Mind Cafe
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Mary DeVries
The Joy of Limited Options: Less Really is MoreScience shows fewer choices make us happier.
Jul 30, 2021
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Jul 30, 2021
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Mary DeVries
How do You Raise a Kid Who Loves the Same Music You Do?Music may be a needed life-line during turbulent teenage years
Jul 30, 2021
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Jul 30, 2021
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Counter Arts
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Mary DeVries
When You are the Adult in Charge, Don’t Do Stupid ThingsRollerblading as a novice with a German Shepherd was not a good idea, or was it?
Jul 29, 2021
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Jul 29, 2021
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Better Marketing
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Mary DeVries
Tips for Email, Texting, and Twitter From a 1920’s Book on EtiquetteGood advice is surprisingly consistent throughout the ages
Jul 26, 2021
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Jul 26, 2021
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In
The Masterpiece
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Mary DeVries
Surprisingly, My Gin & Tonic Does Not Make Me a PsychopathHow much of science writing is a giant game of telephone?
Nov 7, 2020
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Nov 7, 2020
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