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Try this experiment: Watch the 3-minute video below and see if adopting a simple daily practice in home tending doesn’t help bring new energy into your home and  life. Even better: Set an [...]

How many times have you gone into a big warehouse store feeling just fine and come out totally depleted? Or, maybe you’re standing in the checkout line of your supermarket and suddenly feel a [...]

When I read the Preface to a wonderful little book called Being Home by Gunilla Norris, I realized that my love of doing repetitive housekeeping tasks, like washing the dishes or putting away the [...]

As I see it, there are two ways to go about clearing the disturbing effects of a major ecological disaster: Clearing from a place of fear, judgment, and blame. Clearing from a place of deep [...]

The title comes from a swoon I posted on my Facebook Page last week. Actually it read: “Birdsong + Coffee + Back porch (after spring cleaning) = Heaven. I had spent a good part of the [...]

I was invited to clear an apartment recently belonging to woman who had suffered and died of ovarian cancer. The two women handling her estate called me in because they felt that the space did [...]

What needs gathering in your home or life that you can do in one minute or less? My spring newsletter might inspire you.  The theme this quarter is about “gathering” – as in loose [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

If blogs are homes, then I’ve outgrown mine. Again. It’s been nearly a year of musing, shmoozing, sharing, wondering, nooding, exploring… Expanding. Two posts a week adds up, [...]