Simple Living

{Inside: Three things to do before vacation that will make you want to come back.} You know how it goes. You spend a beautiful vacation away from the monotony and hum-drum of daily like, and when [...]

{Inside: The one concept to remember when decluttering. And the three things to do to make decluttering appealing.} Do you know how you eat an elephant?  I mean, if you really had to, would know [...]

I have been on a healthy kick for over ten years now. It started when I was trying to get pregnant and after many failed IVF attempts decided to make some changes with what I ate and how I [...]

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 [...]

Listening to the messages your body sends out isn’t always easy. It’s not that you aren’t able to hear the messages. You are more than able. The difficulty is in actually paying [...]

When I was deciding on a tag line, almost five years ago, for this new iteration of my business (aka when I became FrancescaVerri.com), I toyed with quite a few words to help describe what I [...]

Done is one of the best four-letter words out there. And this is coming from someone who loves using a few other four-letter words to express myself fully. Sometimes, they just feel satisfying to [...]

Years ago, when I saw the quote “stop the glorification of busy” I thought 2 things. The first was about the word busy. It seems to have such a backwards way of making you feel [...]

Happiness is quite the word. I love the sound of it, and the feeling that comes from the word. It feels free. And comforting. I have never met anyone that doesn’t want to feel happy. [...]

I love to read about other people’s paths to a minimal life.  What I love most about it is not hearing about how they live in 590 square foot homes or how they have only 5 articles of [...]