Help! I’ve got Paper Wasps

...course, after they’ve calmed down), oil the location where they were with cooking oil or furniture oil so they can’t attach a new nest in that spot. You can also buy poison at the hardware store but who’s a fan of poison!? It’s really unnecessary. If you have a bee suit you can put it on and remove the colony with a gloved hand. But the best option is to leave them in place so that they can eat all those nasty flies, beetles and caterpillars. A w...

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On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.

...bout sharing an apartment with relatives. Or getting your not-in-my-backyard neighbors to agree to a bus-only lane on an already congested boulevard. Or democratizing the workplace to ask for fewer hours for more pay to allow more time for cooking and child care. Or revisiting the bungalow court, granny flat or, gasp, looking to multi-generational communal living. These are tough ideas to contemplate from the luxury of our quiet and comfortable bu...

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Digital Götterdämmerung

...icular skill. But your hobby could also be something like sewing, welding, cooking, gardening, volunteering or learning a musical instrument. Reclaim conversation by shutting off the phone. Join something and be a part of a face to face group. Take up a sport. Newport contends that at the end of the month long digital fast you’ll find that services you looked at compulsively will lose their charm. This has already happened to me with Instagram. I...

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Root Simple Podcast on Spotify

...s say, next week. Thank you to John Zapf (a guest on episode 54) for suggesting listing the podcast on Spotify. No doubt, I will receive a call from John accusing me of cooking up this blog post as an excuse to note the existence of Jacques Derrida hauntological playlists. Guilty....

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