Simple Living

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 [...]

Coffee shops have had a significant place in the development of the work I now do. I am not even much of a coffee drinker (although I do love the taste and smell) but there is something about the [...]

I used to think I couldn’t call myself a minimalist.  That because I own “stuff” I would have to label myself as like a minimalist-in-progress. But now I am starting to think differently about [...]

Truthfully speaking, simple has always been really important. These days it feels like the word simplify is a bit of a buzz word. Almost trendy.  And for someone like me — a believer in the need [...]

I just just read a great, short email by one of my favorite bloggers Clair Diaz-Ortiz. If I am being honest, which I always am, I don’t even really remember how I found her or when I [...]

I have been a professional organizer for 17 years and in that time I have seen my fair share of clutter. I’ve seen some people struggle with letting it go, and seen others have an easier [...]