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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Pmy-IRLsNcuNJFlXR-jufWQWKdWbMIyOfHZ94GQwCA/edit#gid=1764793085 Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll give you access to the spreadsheet that I use to share expenses with friends and family.  And show you how I use it.  You don't need a spreadsheet for a dinner out with friends, right?  It's just meal total divided by the number of people -- you can easily do that with a simple calculation. But what if you've gone away for a weekend with friends or are traveling with family?  Or if you've decided to throw and party and are splitting the expenses with a group of friends.  And what if different people have paid for different things and not everyone participated in every activity?  Then it starts to get complicated, right?  So, I can't take total credit for this spreadsheet. I found it online and modified it.  But let me share with you how I u...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video I'll tell cover what you need to say to your suburban kid about the n-word.  I really feel like no parent is going to watch this video. Mainly because nice, respectful, aware parents don't think their kids would EVER use the n-word. Sure, you've never had a conversation specifically about it, but your kid has never heard YOU use that kind of language.  There is really no way they would think that was acceptable.   Here's the reality -- and I know this because I have witnessed multiple incidents just within the last year of kids using the n-word in the "rap" sense.  This is in my upscale, majority white, suburban town of pretty privileged kids. And the perpetrators ran the gamut from lily white 13 year old girls to high school boys, some of whom may have been people of color, but definitely not black.  Here's why I think this conversation really needs to be...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video I'll tell you why you should ditch the innate Calendar app on the iPhone and use the Google Calendar app.  A couple of weeks ago I decided to stress test the Google Calendar app for iPhone and iPad and temporarily ditch the innate iOS Calendar app that I had been using for nearly a decade.  Okay -- admittedly this was a pretty low risk proposition on my part: I already use Google Calendar to sync with my iOS calendar, so i didn't need to migrate data or manage parallel systems during this test.  I could cut over immediately with no import or really any work at all. AND I could revert back to the old system at any time without any loss of data.  I had tried the Google Calendar app at times in the past, but I have some picky requirements that I am not willing to compromise on, so the app never totally met my needs. I guess they have done some development, since I'm now us...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar and in today's video, I'll show you how I use Evernote to "attach" files to my iPhone calendar events.  I use Google Calendar to keep track of personal and family appointments.  And I access Google Calendar from a variety of places, but the majority of the time I'm looking at my calendar from my iPhone or iPad.  Up until this week, I've been using the built in iPhone Calendar app.  I decided to try out the Google Calendar app, which I like so far -- but this video really applies to either mobile app.  Just a quick technical note before I dive in - Between web-based Google Calendar and the indigenous iPhone calendar app, most of the fields translate perfectly. Like date, time and place. But some fields don't have counterparts. For example, the URL field in the iPhone Calendar app doesn't have a corresponding field in Google Calendar, so if you populate it on your phone, it doesn't show...