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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 owned “stuff,” I could only be a minimalist-in-progress. But the more I’ve learned, the more I’ve realized that to live minimal [...]
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 [...]
