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“The world is a book. People who don’t travel read only one page.” ––St. Augustine Note: For more current writings, musings, and journeys of a different kind, join me at my [...]

[To remember]: At its essence, it means to call back all of our ‘members’ — those aspects in ourselves that we’ve neglected or have scattered or gone missing — and return to the truth of who we [...]

It all began with a wonder question posed by my husband as we contemplated what to do with the cluttered bookcase that takes up an entire wall in our 1875 home: Why would we keep a book? This [...]

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” –Rumi. On a whim, my husband and I decided to book a cute AirB&B at one of our favorite places: Cape Cod. With vaccinations in full swing [...]

“Tending the things around us and becoming sensitive to the importance of home, daily schedule, and maybe even the clothes we wear, are ways of caring for the soul.”—Thomas Moore The [...]

If there was a clearing theme for me personally this year, it would be the year of the pixel. More specifically, the year to clear my massive collection of unloved and unseen photos (over 36,000 [...]

“Eucatastrophes are sudden, unexpected, but perfectly logical-in-hindsight explosions of good.”–Author unknown. There’s a word for it: Eucatastrophe. Though it’s not the [...]

Part 1 of 4 Taming the Clothes I have been asked by a number of readers and students if I’ve read Marie Kondo’s hugely popular book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The [...]

“Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air…”–Anne Lamott Watch this video and ask yourself honestly: which door would I enter? [...]

It doesn’t matter if you live in a sprawling mansion surrounded by an old growth forest, or a tiny hovel apartment overlooking the town dump; if your spirit feels nourished and held, lifted [...]