Roger Stone, FAA, Border Wall: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/25/2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: When the predictable is
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The way we eat could doom us as a species. Here’s a new diet designed to save us.
Reading Time: 7 minutesFeeding everyone within planetary boundaries will also mean changing agricultural practices and reducing food loss. It’s a gargantuan task, and it’s clearly not a top priority yet for most leaders (ahem, Donald Trump). Yet it’s time to get moving, time to sift through the big ambitious ideas like those in the Lancet report and figure out how to eat in ways that won’t destroy the planet. Otherwise, we might be cooked.
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Clutter Is An Opinion
Reading Time: 3 minutesClutter is residue that feels smothering, overwhelming, draggy.
Clutter is residue. But not all residue is clutter.
Some people (maximalists like me) like a lot of stuff around them. We like our environments embellished and interesting and story-full. Walls are covered in art. Everywhere the eye rests invites conversation. Oscar Wilde would feel right at home.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michael Cohen, Mueller: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/24/2018
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Trailblazer or crazy person?
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Kamala Harris Birther Conspiracy Raised Days After She Announces Her Presidential Campaign
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA candidate of color is running for president again, so *naturally* the baseless birther conspiracies are back about Sen. Kamala Harris (she was born in California, btw)
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Huffpo: I’m Not ‘Lucky’ Because My Husband Cooks And Cleans
Reading Time: 5 minutesTo say it’s lucky that my 40-something husband can and does make his own dinner, places his own towel in the bathroom hamper, and calls to ask if he can pick our daughter up from soccer practice when he gets out of work early takes us from a sign that he is an adult to evidence that I’ve scooped the bonus prize out of the cereal bag of life.
But there’s nothing lucky about opening your box of breakfast cereal in the morning and finding corn flakes inside. The problem is opening the box and finding nothing at all.
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Transitioning Back to Work After Baby
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust when you were getting the hang of having a baby at home, it’s time to go back to work. Beyond the expected changes such as picking work tasks back up and catching up on things you’ve missed, your priorities have most likely shifted now that you’re a parent.
It’s normal for parents to feel anxious about transitioning back to work after having a baby, but they don’t have to do it alone. Most new parents have built-in support systems of friends and family, but if their child will be attending daycare, that structure can provide additional help through the transition.
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Body Cams, GOP Lawmakers, Healthcare: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/23/2018
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: They aren’t that expensive.
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New York Times: Along the U.S.- Mexico Border
Reading Time: 11 minutesAs the president fights to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, the journalists Azam Ahmed and Meridith Kohut are driving along the approximately 1,900-mile border and sending dispatches.
Goods flow freely. People?
That’s another story.
Your Cold and Flu Arsenal: Three More Tips for Fending Off the Cold and Flu
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere’s nothing like a nasty cold – or worse the flu – to derail your plans for a week (or more) and make life miserable.
However, I’m definitely not a fan of disrupting my natural immunity with a flu shot. Unless you have serious health issues, you are much better off using herbs, foods and simple lifestyle adjustments to nip an incipient cold or flu in the bud, before it can even grab hold.
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