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Reading “Divergent Minds” recently and a quote about difficulties emerging when situations result in “routine structures are taken away-and she needs to depend on her executive functioning to navigate the logistical details of daily life” really hit home for me.

Especially those of you with limited funds (and especially if you have kids): what are the ways that have helped you “navigate the logistical details of life”? Aka how do you create adequate supports for yourself or outsource those logistics??

Has anyone ever worked for a company that prohibited practicing at/owning an outpatient practice treating low acuity clients for two years after terminating with them? And what happened if you quit and started a private practice?

Would you even consider signing a contract like that?!

How have you navigated pricing for in-person travel teacher training?

I’ve been leading parts of teacher trainings for years, but I’ve always either been in-person when I lived local to the host location or have taught virtually. So I have established rates for virtual teaching and the acknowledgement that pay increases when in-person but I’m not sure how to assess a reasonable price increase for in-person, not to mention accounting for travel and other associated costs.

For those of you who do this -or have hosted other teachers in this situation-what has that looked like for you?

Lovely humans of all varieties, I am frustrated with my four year old’s books. WAAAY too many of them feature “evil witches” without any of them explicitly featuring good witches. If there’s good magic, it’s almost always a fairy. Now I like encouraging her interest in fairies, but I dislike that the exclusive association with the word witch is evil. Does anyone have recommendations for children’s books that feature GOOD witches?

While I can find lots of information on actually setting up/installing a barrel or barrel system, I can’t seem to find information on what I need to know to make the preliminary decisions (for example: single rain barrels under each gutter downspout? Barrel system under only one downspout? Some combination?)

I have seven total gutter downspouts currently, spaced out around the perimeter of my house. I’d like to be able to save as much rainwater as possible and use it regularly to irrigate the backyard food forest I’m beginning. I kind of assume that rain will flow out of each downspout, even if one of them connects to a barrel system, but I don’t know that for sure or how best to accommoda

I’m interested in your opinions on approaches to flossing. Namely:

sustainable floss (which still has to be shipped in a container regularly- and while I try to reuse containers as much as possible, there is a limit, especially to tiny ones)

or something like a waterpik (obviously it’s made of plastic, but it will last longer?)

Or do you have another alternative?

I’m looking to make a hair rinse and reading good things about an apple cider rinse and a black tea rinse. Is there any reason I can’t combine the two??

Anyone with children, how long until your breasts didn’t produce anything with squeezing/stimulation? My daughter is three in a few weeks; she weaned herself shortly before her first birthday. Still, if I squeeze my breasts a little some breast milk appears. WTF.

Will it ever go away? Is this just a constant now? It seems so weird to me that two years after all weaning it would still produce anything at all. Do any other ladies have relevant experience?!

That’s it. I sing ok; I’ll never be great. But I’d like to learn how to sing harmony. I can’t even hear where I would go to make harmony when I listen melody.