Clutter-Clearing

“Change happens slowly, then all at once.” – Jay W. Vogt Thanks to Mother Nature and major flooding in our area, we got a head start clearing the junk in our basement this year. Not [...]

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” – Anne Lamott It’s springtime: A return to my [...]

What would happen if you sat in a circle with a few people and together you took a minute to tune into a person or a thing with what I call “spacious detachment”? You could be tuning into antique [...]

Our beloved refrigerator leaves us today. I can hear her humming away in the other room – as she has for 25 years – oblivious to her fate. It’s like we’re putting her down. We bought [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Winter 2010: Cultivating Ease Click here to view

“How we hold the simplest of our tasks speaks loudly about how we hold life itself. – Gunilla Norris, Being Home “I once saw a staggering statistic in Newsweek: ‘It takes the average [...]