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Prediabetes is a head start, not a number to sit on

An A1c of 5.9 is the most useful bad news you'll get all year, if you do something with it in the next 90 days.

GuideTools & OrganizingDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

How to Pick a Cordless Tool Platform You Won't Regret

You're not buying a drill. You're buying a battery mount you'll live with for a decade, so pick it on purpose and buy in cheap.

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What should I wear to this?

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GuideDadsCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Your kid is being bullied and you've got about a week

A day-by-day plan for the first seven days: what to say, what to write down, what to ask the school for, and when it stops being a school matter.

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Fitness6 min read

Leaking after prostate surgery and the training that helps

Pelvic floor work isn't a consolation prize after surgery. Done with the right cue and the right timing, it's the biggest lever you actually control.

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GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The pork butt is done when the probe slides, not at 203

Eight pounds, a bone that pulls clean, and the three hours of rest almost nobody builds into the plan.

GuideDadsCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Write the letters before you get on the plane

Most of what keeps a deployed dad connected to his kids gets built in the two weeks before he leaves, not over a satellite connection at 2am.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Test your testosterone before 10 a.m. and do it twice

A single afternoon blood draw tells you almost nothing. The timing, the assay and the second sample are what turn a number into information.

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Is your money actually in order?

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

GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Start the fire an hour before you want to eat

Flames blacken food and coals cook it, and most people light the wood about forty minutes too late to get any.

GuideFamilyCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Your in-law problem is usually a marriage problem

Boundaries with her parents or yours work one way: each of you handles your own family, says the specific thing out loud, and then holds it.

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Rewrite my résumé so it actually gets read

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Your PSA Number Isn't A Yes Or No Answer

A single blood test, a number with a decimal point, and about nine things that can move it before anybody mentions cancer.

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GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 23, 20265 min

Take the meal in a pan you never want back

How to feed a family after a funeral or a new baby without adding one more thing to their list.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideDadsCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

The Homeschool Dad Job Description Nobody Hands You

You don't have to teach fractions at 10am. But you do have to own a subject, run the discipline, and keep the whole thing from eating your wife alive.

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Kidney stones hurt like nothing else, so stop the next one

What renal colic actually feels like, when it's an ER trip, and the boring daily habits that keep a second stone from ever showing up.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Twenty books worth reading this year and how to finish them

Twenty pages a night gets you through all of them, and you're allowed to quit any one of them at page fifty.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

Dads5 min

Take Her Somewhere That Opens At Six In The Morning

Fitness6 min

What a raised ALT on your blood test actually means

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideLifeCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Do one room a month and the house changes by spring

Skip the weekend blitz. Ninety minutes, one room, and everything in the trunk before dinner.

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Food6 min read

Keep the fat at 34 degrees or your sausage will smear

Homemade sausage fails at the grinder, not the skillet. Cold meat, a sharp plate and one salt number fix almost all of it.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

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