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You have heard the saying “you are what you eat”. When you think about how food really does create you, how it becomes your cells — your hair, your organs, your blood — that statement really [...]

Simple is such a comforting word. And inherent in it is the idea that when simple is present, things are easy, straightforward, and uncomplicated. Those words are comforting as well. But [...]

As March comes to an end I can almost hear deep sighs of dread for the upcoming and often unappealing tax time.  April 15 is right around the corner.  And it gets a bad a rap all because of the [...]

I am a huge fan of meditating. Of slowing down the brain for even 10 minutes a day so it gets a much needed break. When I meditate my goal is to quiet things. It is to pause what is going a mile [...]

There are so many tips for how to organize a kitchen well.  There is one that I swear by and implementing this one tip can, and usually does, change the whole way you look at your kitchen — how [...]

Got clutter? These days, who doesn’t? And I say that with love. But I think the reality is that most of us have things in our homes and offices for which we can honestly say we have no use [...]

If I asked people “do you want to feel better today?” I would guess that most would likely say yes. And they’d do so with a slight doubt in their answer. Maybe they’d even cock and [...]

Specificity.  I love saying that word. And as a professional organizer, I say that word a lot. I know that specificity is of the utmost importance when it comes to finding what you need, and [...]

It is this time of year – about 40+ days after January came in like a bulldog, full of promise and hope – where we realize things don’t go as planned as often as we’d [...]

I am worried. And I am concerned that what we believe keeps us closer to each other is actually taking away something even greater – our ability to connect (and act) more *deliberately*. I [...]