In looking back over last year's posts, I realized that I didn't dwell on small space solutions very much, or at least not as much as in prior years. For this, I am most humbly sorry, since I know so many of you are the denizens of blasted small spaces who are just trying to solve that puzzle once and for all. Take this post as a token, then, of what I'm not really sure, ...

Oh, hi, and welcome to The Ongoing, Not In Any Particular Order List Of Things For You To Ditch. Sometimes I'll come home from working with a client and realize I saw at his/her home the things I've seen so many times before. The things that everyone seems to be in excess of. And when that happens, the only thing I can do is lift the lid and furiously type. If you, dear, sweet one, ...

I loved the fervent need to edit and Simplify that seemed to grip everyone during the holiday lull this past year. Friends and internet friends were all proudly announcing to me how many paper piles they'd waded through, how many long-postponed tasks they'd finally tackled, how many files edited and receipts calculated, and how good it felt and I was all, "Well HELLOOO and THANK YOU!" In the aftermath of editing comes the beautifying and ...

We're one week into the new year and the resolution-chatter is going strong. Despite how much more mindful we've become, for the most part, I still feel as though there's a lot of noise out there about the many ways you might aim to fix yourself this year. The magazines on newstands claim to hold the secrets. They use words like "fresh," "new," "better," in bold typeface and it isn't so much that the resolutions ...

This life is full of complications. This world we live in is noisy. And for all the hustling and bustling around we do, for all the sense of security we possess or adopt, for all the groundedness, there is nonetheless an undeniable fragility to it all: ourselves, our homes, our jobs, our safety. So much can change in a split second. Easy converts into most complex before your eyes. It happens in the duration of ...