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Another good question came the other day: I am following your practice of clearing one item each day. My question for you is what about the stuff that comes into your home- like mail? I can never [...]

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” -Rumi I just returned from a glorious two-weeks in France and Italy, compliments of dear friends who invited us, and many [...]

Dan Pink, best-selling author of A Whole New Mind, confirmed this staggering statistic I’d heard some years ago as part of my research for Your Spacious Self: “The self-storage [...]

Just read a terrific New York Times article about the effect heirlooms have on on our lives entitled “How to Lose a Legacy” by Ellen Lupton. Humorous, colorful, timely – this article [...]

“Nothing that you want is upstream….The stream of well-being is a powerful stream… When your stream is moving fast, and you’re not flowing with it, it’s beating you [...]

Do I hear road trip? The downside for anyone traveling in the US these days is that some airlines are now charging hefty sums for baggage. It’s not a deal killer if you can think light and [...]

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 [...]

Quitting the career and job that defined me for two decades detailed in the last three posts* led to a long period of fumbling in a foggy netherworld I call not knowing. I still find myself [...]

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 – [...]