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Less stuff equals greater happiness, according to Graham Hill, who makes a brilliant case for dialing it down in this cut-to-the chase 5-minute TED talk (shown below). Treehugger.com founder, [...]

No one would argue that most of us do too much. Our days are filled with energy outputs that don’t add up to anything, or yield. With our lives filled with noise and endless, mechanical [...]

“Change happens slowly, then all at once.” –Jay W. Vogt This has been a big week for me; a big dream come true. My first article just went live on the Huffington Post!! It’s a [...]

“I want to shed my waste with quiet reverence like the pine…Keep me mindful of what I take into my home, the items brought to substitute for real living… Help me slowly to surrender all excess.” [...]

I am a big fan of Facebook for how it can inspire a tribe to move mountains… of clutter. Here’s one of the lively threads to make its way through my SpaceClear fan page: ‎ Joan [...]

This is the last in a series of posts* on reinventing ourselves, excerpted from Your Spacious Self. Enjoy!   Quitting the career and job that defined me for two decades detailed in the last [...]

This post is the continuation of a series on reinventing ourselves. It follows this last one: “Making Friends with Not-Knowing.” **  Enjoy this excerpt from Your Spacious Self: Clear [...]

This is the continuation of my previous post: “Stepping Out of Comfort into Not-Knowing,”  which tells the story of how and why I quit a successful teaching career of twenty years – [...]

“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 [...]

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” [...]