Simple Living

One amazing benefit and truth about being organized is actually pretty simple: when you can find what you need, when you need it, without stress and frustration, you exist in the world in a [...]

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

This is not your run-of-the-mill post about resolutions. If you are expecting me to write about how now is your window of time to make a change, you can stop reading here. Now is always a good [...]

If you’ve read anything I’ve written you know that I am not a huge fan of New Year’s and resolutions. To me personally it feels like more pressure-filled than anything else. Of [...]

Strange to say but my kind of resolution is to not make one.  I know that sounds so scandalous!  After all, we just ended an entire year!  How else are you going to start a new one without some [...]

The holiday season brings me so much joy!  The lights, the decorations, even the chill in the air — they all put an extra spring in my step. I don’t think about the mess the decorations create or [...]

We say it every year — at least I do — that I love the holidays but I hate all the craziness that comes along with it.  I am talking about everything from all of the traveling to all the food [...]

My mother is a very smart woman.  I know they say that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. While I don’t consider myself dumb, I am often in awe of my mother’s [...]

We moved to a fairly large house 11 years ago. When I say large, I don’t mean gargantuan. But it is bigger than where my husband and I each previously lived.  There are more cabinets in the [...]

Talk about a buzz word!  Balance is one of those words you hear often, by just about everyone, as an integral tool toward becoming healthy. I suppose there is truth that in attaining a sense of [...]