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This is Message #2 from my free thirty-day email message series. Enjoy! As I see it, clutter comes in many forms and has many faces. There’s the physical stuff, of course: The junk that [...]

As my daughter prepared to leave home for college for the first time last fall, I wrote a post a called “Packing: How Much Stuff is Too Much.” I thought my “bottom line” [...]

At the risk of sounding a bit like one of those late night infomercials, I have to say there’s more! This is a follow-up to a post I wrote  a month back entitled “No Home No [...]

Peace is Possible A group spent days visiting with the Dalai Lama focusing upon what they believe are five most important questions to be considered. The five questions were: 1. How do we address [...]

Ease. For such a little word, it lingers and expands if you say it out loud. Repeat it slowly – with awareness – and you might even feel your nervous system relax. Insert the phrase “I [...]

How important is it to have a clean house? How do you juggle a demanding job and a family and still have the time for basic chores like cleaning? My sister Martha, a hospice nurse and mom to a [...]

Enough?  Not enough? There’s are a series of phrases in my book I call “softening attitudes.” One set in particular is designed to ease the mind’s tight grip on the idea [...]

“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” –Anais Nin In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? [...]