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How to add a floor protector to a Knoll tulip chair Self-monitoring blood glucose to reverse prediabetes Tips for Carving Halloween Pumpkins

How to add a floor protector to a Knoll tulip chair

I purchased 6 vintage Knoll Saarinen tulip chairs at an estate sale. I did not want the metal base of the tulip chairs to scratch...

Self-monitoring blood glucose to reverse prediabetes

In 2012, at age 60, I was told I was prediabetic. I had suffered a failed knee surgery, which lead to 2 years of rehab...

Tips for Carving Halloween Pumpkins

First with my family, and now as empty nesters, my buddy and I take a lot of pride in our  Halloween pumpkin carving. Over the...
MJ Lee at Primary Apps LLC is focused on helping clients, designers, and architects design for aging in place. In addition, we can advise on other factors that affect the ability to stay in one's home as long as possible. This website has various tips for successful aging; we hope you find them useful.

MJ Lee Research on Second Units – Jan-2013

ABSTRACT Dec-17-2012 A Comparison of Second Unit Strategies in Municipalities with Low Density Land Use Problem: The Town of Portola Valley is located just west of Stanford University and is considering efforts to meet its affordable housing requirements. As a town of low density land use with largely one single…

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MJ October 20, 2016 October 20, 2016Small Homes

Why the Flibanserin pill won’t aid sexagenarian sex

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It’s very sad to see a scientific organization like the FDA give into political pressure that helps pharmaceutical companies bring a likely useless drug to market. Flibanserin is an anti-depressant that Sprout Pharmaceuticals is trying to get approved for treatment of low sexual desire in women*. I’m concerned about this…

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MJ June 5, 2015 June 5, 2015Health & Nutrition aging, sex

Tips for Carving Halloween Pumpkins

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First with my family, and now as empty nesters, my buddy and I take a lot of pride in our  Halloween pumpkin carving. Over the past decade, I have amassed pumpkin stencils from websites, magazines, pumpkin carving kits, and Halloween books, as well as a bunch of tools. Below is…

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MJ October 31, 2014 October 31, 2014Designer Projects

At end of life, strive for the best day possible

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Surgeon Atul Gawande has written a book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” and from which he wrote an opinion piece for the The New York Times on Oct-5-2014. http://nyti.ms/1n6EHLS This essay describes one thing he learned from a patient/friend’s end of life: strive for the best…

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MJ October 13, 2014 October 13, 2014Health & Nutrition end of life, hospice

How I designed this WordPress site using Tempera

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WordPress is not easy. If you came to this page because you’ve struggled a bit with WordPress (WP), don’t feel badly. Even though I used to be a software engineer and project manager at Hewlett Packard, it took me 2 weeks to develop my first WP site: SoccerMovieMom.com. That is…

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MJ October 12, 2014 October 13, 2014Technology Tempera, WordPress

Back pain taught me that “Sitting is the New Smoking”

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In Spring-2011, I injured my back while doing yardwork. But in retrospect, I had pre-conditioned my back to fail. For 10 months, after my 90-yo mother broke her hip, I drove from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles every week. I tried to drive down Hwy 5 as…

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MJ October 11, 2014 October 13, 2014Exercise & Mobility mobility, pain
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