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How to Play Mixed Doubles With Your Spouse and Still Like Each Other

Settle the middle ball in the car, not at 7-6. A practical guide to playing pickleball as a couple without the silent drive home.

GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Don't make the big decision in the first year

Order fifteen death certificates, put the ambush days on the calendar, and keep three things fixed. What the first year after a loss actually asks of you.

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GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Most fish is ruined before the knife ever comes out

Bleed it, chill it hard, and cut with the rib cage instead of through it. The rest of dinner takes twelve minutes.

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Dads6 min read

Swim First, Then The Rod, Then The Canoe

Five skills decide whether your kid is safe on the water. Everything else — bluegill, barbs, paddle strokes — comes after.

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What was your first ever job?

GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

The letter you keep meaning to write takes eleven minutes

A stamp costs under a dollar and a half-page note outlives every text you'll ever send. Here's the shape, and the seven people who've earned one.

GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 23, 20265 min

Dice an onion right and the rest of the board gets easy

Three cuts, two hands, one sharp knife. Get the onion right and carrots, garlic and chicken all stop being a fight.

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GuideHobbiesDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

How to Find Pickleball Open Play and Leagues Near You

The courts are full of games you haven't been invited to yet. Here's how the paddle rack, the group texts and the ladders actually work.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Three lines a night is all the journal you need

Skip the feelings, the leather cover and the morning routine. A composition notebook and ninety seconds will do more for you than any of it.

GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Your pizza dough needs two days and a hotter oven

Home ovens top out at 550 degrees and Neapolitan pizza bakes at 900. Everything you do to the dough is closing that gap.

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Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

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GuideHobbiesNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

Pickleball Etiquette That Gets You Invited Back

The unwritten rules of open play, from the paddle rack to the post-game tap, so your first morning on a new court isn't your last.

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GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Twenty pages a day is the whole reading plan

A busy year will eat your ambitious list by March. It won't touch twenty pages a night, and twenty pages a night is two dozen books.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 23, 20265 min

Charcoal, gas or pellet and which one you'll actually use

The honest trade-offs nobody puts on the box, plus the failures that kill each type and how to avoid them.

GuideHobbiesDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Win More Pickleball Points With the Dink and the Third Shot Drop

Stop smashing everything. The soft game is how beginners start beating people who swing harder than they do.

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GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Start with the guy who's already in your phone

Most men aren't short of people. They're short of contact. The way out starts with one text, a real date, and no explanation for the gap.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

Food6 min

Your sourdough starter isn't dead, it's on day three

Hobbies5 min

Buy Your First Pickleball Paddle Without Overspending

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What should I wear to this?

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GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Moving day is won three weeks before the truck shows up

The clear tote you pack last and carry yourself is the difference between a calm first night and a family meltdown at 10pm.

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Food6 min read

The freezer meals that survive the freezer

A new baby, a surgery, a layoff. One Saturday of cooking buys you fourteen dinners, if you freeze the right things the right way.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

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