Clean space, clean body, clean mind. After living with a rotating stable of the biggest slobs in the universe back in college, I take home maintenance much more…
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It ain’t Spring until you can’t smell anything. It’s almost Spring! The sun is shining, the birds are returning, the flowers are blooming, and I can’t appreciate any…
As if you don’t have enough to worry about. Stress is, primarily, a mental and emotional ailment. It makes you antsy, frustrated, short-tempered, and occasionally desperate. However, your…
Feels like we should’ve learned this in Health class. I remember the first time I had to take my own temperature after moving out of my parents’ house,…
There are few things as viscerally unpleasant as the ambient sound of your own ear canals. I have what one would charitably call “chronically gunky ears.” Every few…
Control the pain, don’t let it control you. When I was a kid, my mom broke her leg in three places while walking our dog in the winter.…
In, hold, out. Breathing is one of the most vital mechanisms in the human body. You probably know this, as you’re (presumably) human. But proper breathing isn’t just…
There’s nothing funny about funny bones. Here’s an interesting fact: your “funny bone” isn’t actually a bone, but rather the long ulnar nerve. The ulnar nerve is what…